• Finished work on bug#7177: "Position out of range" when deleting the Welcome message and bug#6436: Implement a selected state for sidebar collection icons and sharing status icons.
• Fixed bug#5243: removing events from the preview area confuses sidebar painting, it also fixes bug#6410: preview area doesn't refresh properly after adding. This turned out to be much more work than estimated, but I suspect it may fix other redraw bugs on Mac.
• Fixed bug#7160: Creating a New Message/Task/Event should not switch you out of the All App Area. But, unfortunately the functional tests revealed a tricky bug in which the markup bar does not update properly. I decided to postpone work on this bug until after I'm finished with my blocking bugs.
• Worked on bug#6559: 12% startup performance regression with r11443.
• Spent most of the week working on blocking bugs:
  • bug#6977: Guard byte incorrect during shared memory free. I've been running functional tests all night long for several weeks now and have not been able to reproduce this bug. I suspect I won't be able to reproduce it, or maybe it's gone.
  • bug#6732: Intermittent crash during functional tests. This bug has been particularly difficult. After spending a very long time on it I am still not able to suceed running the functional tests even once. Just as I get close to narrowing down one problem a completely different problem pops up. Since the failures I'm getting don't happen on tinderboxes, I'm beginning to suspect either the problems aren't seen on the tinderboxes because they are running an out of date version of the OS, or a build/configuration problem. I'm further hampered by my Mac, which seems an order of magnitude slower than my Linux and Windows environment.

-- JohnAnderson - 26 Oct 2006