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[November 28, 2008] Lightning/Sunbird Status Update

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:59:58 -0800

22 days with no update here :-(
Some of you may think that this is, because we're not making much progress, but this couldn't be farer from the truth. Actually we have fixed 57 bugs in the last three weeks, which is is really an impressive feat.

Because of the large amount of changes, we're asking everybody to go and download a nightly build and test it intensively and report all the bugs that you find in bugzilla.

As a reference, here's the list of the 57 bugs that were fixed within the last 22 days:

Bug 349892: No validation what (kind of data) is pasted
Bug 355927: Make description in install.rdf localizable
Bug 357399: Import of iCalendar with (invalid?) RECURRENCE-ID is incomplete
Bug 380289: Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'max-height'
Bug 390922: File | Exit menu item in Event dialog is misleading and should be removed
Bug 392465: Accept meeting invitation fails (has RECURRENCE-ID but no parent item)
Bug 405529: Event dialog: Typed start time or end time reset to default after moving focus
Bug 417585: Find Event toolbar button doesn't restore collapsed unifinder
Bug 419807: After closing task dialog now save-messagebox pops up
Bug 423861: No email prepared when the timeslice of an event is changed from the calendar view
Bug 437982: No accept/Decline buttons and NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED in calIItipItem::getItemList
Bug 453138: Display 'Last day of the month' recurrence rule as clear text
Bug 454933: Move month, day, week mode buttons into calendar view
Bug 455752: Update internal timezone database to version 2008i
Bug 456671: Hong Kong holidays updated with 2009 holidays added
Bug 457467: Sunbird/Lightning 0.9 source missing folder: mozilla/security/nss-fips
Bug 458828: Many errors when setting up zimbra calendar
Bug 459184: Timezone for Australia/Perth is wrong
Bug 459371: Convert eMail to event, try to add attendees -> Attendees dialog is read only
Bug 459402: Provide Sunbird l10n builds from comm-central
Bug 459645: Open Timezone dialog in attendees dialog -> error output
Bug 460041: Modifying an event remove its category
Bug 460413: Incorrect mail when accepting invitations with line breaks in subject
Bug 462326: Thunderbird with Lightning leaks on Shutdown.
Bug 462837: WARNING: Illegal character in window name prompt-occurrence-modification
Bug 462990: Outlook 2003 Calendar UID are line wrapped when added to Calendar
Bug 463047: Use js 1.7 iterators for properties bag and ical components
Bug 463060: Clean-up and move clipboard.js
Bug 463195: CalEvent/calTodo icalComponent setter: make sure object is properly reset
Bug 463267: Adding or modifying event throws exception
Bug 463282: Tasks cannot be created or imported
Bug 463401: Invitations dialog is empty
Bug 463407: eMail notification dialog on attendee side after first event change is wrong
Bug 463507: Add currentAppVersion to extensions.update.url default pref
Bug 463680: L10n windows builds are broken
Bug 463716: Icon and preview image for default theme missing in add-on manager
Bug 463784: Copy and multiple paste is broken, fails with DUPLICATE_ID error
Bug 463790: Do not pass compiler flags to --enable-optimize
Bug 464102: When closing Edit Task dialog, it will not prompt to save
Bug 464344: Deleted events from the server are still shown in Lightning after a refresh
Bug 464348: Adding Hebrew locale to Sunbird all-locales
Bug 464365: Selecting Write Button -> Message brings up two compose windows
Bug 464444: No event notification eMail when organizer deletes the last attendee
Bug 464560: Error: "this.setProperty is not a function" in calAttachment.js
Bug 464751: Missing button icons in Customize Toolbar dialog of Event/Task dialog
Bug 465227: Updated 2009 spanish holidays calendar for Mozilla Calendar project website
Bug 465285: Indonesian Holidays 2009
Bug 465717: WCAP calendars are not available in lightning/sunbird build 20081118
Bug 465739: Attempting to close a new task dialog with no changes asks if I want to save
Bug 465896: Many timezone startup errors on fresh profile
Bug 465911: Invite Attendees dialog shows no free/busy information
Bug 466119: Add Sinhala (si) to calendar/locales/all-locales
Bug 466164: Icon for calendar-timezones.xpi
Bug 466301: Make it easier to restore collapsed sidebar by adding a grippy to the splitter
Bug 466308: Sunbird Mac OS X nightly builds are failing since 19-Nov-2008
Bug 466367: Receiving acceptation from a Windows Lightning to a Linux version results in a garbled e-mail
Bug 466996: Implement single / plural form in alarmWindowTitle

Many thanks go to all developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters that have made this possible.

Extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:56:55 -0800

Update:Authors - MozillaWiki

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:56:55 -0800

Sociz

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:56:15 -0800

Index of /pub/mozilla.org

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:00:04 -0800

Index of /pub/mozilla.org

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:00:04 -0800

Calendar Community Testday On Thursday, November 13

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:10:39 -0800

The next test day will be held on Thursday, November 13th. We want to put email-based scheduling (iTIP/iMIP support) to the acid test on our testday. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a "test" profile.
Backing up a profile is easy:
1. Find your profile directory:
  Windows: %AppData%\Thunderbird
  Linux: ~/.thunderbird
  MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
Creating a testing profile is also easy:
1. Launch your application with a '-P' option.
2. Create a new profile by clicking the 'Create Profile' button.
3. Click 'Next', Give it a name like "Testing Profile", click 'Finish'.
4. Select the testing profile, and click the 'Start Shredder' button.
Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

There are also some fixed tb-integration bugs that need to be verified. You simply have to add a comment to the bug report stating what version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

The outcome of our last testday: 39 tests run and 11 marked 'failed'. Many thanks go to karora, whose comments in the failed test cases let us file two new bug reports.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas
Calendar QA Team

[November 06, 2008] Lightning/Sunbird Status Update

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:27:27 -0800

Two weeks have gone by and the Calendar developers are fixing bugs like crazy, as evidenced by the 44 bugs that we could fix in the last 14 days.

Because of the large amount of changes, we're asking everybody to go and download a nightly build and test it intensively and report all the bugs that you find in bugzilla.

As a reference, here's the list of the 44 bugs that were fixed within the last 14 days:

Bug 281690: Days are shown two times in Minimonth (depending on timezone)
Bug 303663: Should ICS calendar always bumps DTSTAMP on all events when writing?
Bug 305432: Setting nativeTime sets timezone to UTC
Bug 351880: Selecting repeating event in Unifinder does not select events in Main View
Bug 358498: calAttendee::icalProperty bug with rsvp
Bug 361634: imip-bar should consider local status of iTIP/iMIP invitations
Bug 394902: Update libical
Bug 401597: Provide Sunbird nightly updates via aus2-community.mozilla.org server
Bug 412096: "New Event" button should have the same disabled state everywhere
Bug 414949: Add AMO integration pane for Sunbird
Bug 418345: Decide how to handle Generation property properly
Bug 431127: Move email-specific itip processor code to the transport
Bug 431383: Replace GIF with APNG throbber
Bug 445769: iMIP bar isn't updated after declining an invitation
Bug 446172: Add tentative invites to invites-counter
Bug 450565: When accepting an invitation the 'Default alarm setting' is not considered
Bug 452759: Tracking bug for 0.9 RC cleanup
Bug 456354: Get rid of "Today" toolbarbutton
Bug 456377: Integrate New Event, New Task into Write Button
Bug 457024: Crash during shutdown
Bug 457203: iTIP overhaul
Bug 458190: Broken unit tests
Bug 460263: Postflight on macosx fails when building thunderbird with lightning
Bug 460408: Shutdown crash at nsXPConnect::GetRuntime()
Bug 460649: Make use of new search textbox widget in unifinder
Bug 461166: e4x parser borks on surrounding white spaces and certain response elements
Bug 461328: Errors because chooseCalendarDialog.xul and calErrorPrompt.xul aren't packaged
Bug 461337: Sunbird tinderboxen need more disk space to stay green
Bug 461628: Failed to load jar:calendar.jar!/content/calendar/calendar-minimonth-busy.js
Bug 461709: Remove ctrl-q for quit on Windows (like Thunderbird)
Bug 461826: .ics attachments from Thunderbird/Lightning not compatible with iCal
Bug 461941: [404] link to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/build.html
Bug 461944: Selected event in unifinder is not highlighted in calendar view
Bug 462026: 301 and 302 redirects not done properly with caldav provider
Bug 462317: Crash [@strlen][@icalmemory_strdup] when closing a recursive event
Bug 462393: Sunbird tinderboxen busted [Error: mozilla/dist/bin/js: Not a directory]
Bug 462426: Throbber icon not visible in Customize Toolbar dialog
Bug 462447: Remove CVS leftovers from new buildbot mozconfig files
Bug 462490: Today pane -> 'new event' icon is defect
Bug 462837: WARNING: Illegal character in window name prompt-occurrence-modification
Bug 463060: Clean-up and move clipboard.js
Bug 463067: Small icons for Cut/Copy/Paste toolbar buttons are truncated
Bug 463079: Assertion failure, can't load any remote calendars
Bug 463082: Update screenshot section to Sunbird 0.9 release

Many thanks go to all developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters that make this possible.

Provider for Google Calendar :: sunbird Add-ons

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:05:06 -0800

FinchSync Home

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:52:17 -0800

A tool for synchronizing contacts, appoinments and task between Mozilla products an Pocket PCs.

Philipp's Developer Notes: Our business has moved to a new location...

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:33:08 -0800

This post is mainly of interest to Sunbird/Lightning extension developers. Due to the recently fixed bug 290747, the chrome:// URL of the Sunbird main window has changed. This was long overdue, since we don't want to be shipping Sunbird-only code with Lightning.

For you as an extension developer, this means you will need to change the URL in your chrome.manifest when overlaying the Sunbird window. For the lazy, here a line to copy, paste and modify:

overlay chrome://sunbird/content/calendar.xul chrome://myext/content/myext.xul application={718e30fb-e89b-41dd-9da7-e25a45638b28}

If you use the Mozilla Build System to build your extensions (see this page for an intro on how to do that), then you should use this line in your jar.mn:

% overlay chrome://sunbird/content/calendar.xul chrome://myext/content/myext.xul application={718e30fb-e89b-41dd-9da7-e25a45638b28}

Of course this change is only needed now if you want to keep your extension compatible with the current nightlys, but at latest with the next version (1.0), you will need to take care.

Updates to the l10n dashboard

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:49:38 -0800

A few weeks after we had initially set up an l10n dashboard for Calendar, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey localization, Axel Hecht (Pike) managed to import the Calendar, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey trees into the main l10n dashboard as well.

We have let these two dashboards run in parallel for the last few weeks, but in the end, it didn't make any sense to have two dashboards for the same thing. We have therefore retired the Mozilla Messaging l10n dashboard and redirected all calls to it to the mozilla.org l10n dashboard. Please use the mozilla.org dashboard exclusively from now on.

To make you more familiar with the various options, that the dashboard provides, I've written up a short guide to its various functions on the mozilla.org wiki. I'd appreciate feedback on this guide.

Mozilla Sunbird®

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:20:31 -0700

Calendar Community Testday On Thursday, October 30

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:45:47 -0700

The next test day will be held on Thursday, October 30th. This time we want to take a look at the Lightning trunk builds in Thunderbird 3.0b1pre again. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a "test" profile.
Backing up a profile is easy:
1. Find your profile directory:
  Windows: %AppData%\Thunderbird
  Linux: ~/.thunderbird
  MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
Creating a testing profile is also easy:
1. Launch your application with a '-P' option.
2. Create a new profile by clicking the 'Create Profile' button.
3. Click 'Next', Give it a name like "Testing Profile", click 'Finish'.
4. Select the testing profile, and click the 'Start Shredder' button.
Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

The goal of our test day is to run as many Litmus test cases for Lightning as possible. If you find outdated or broken test cases, please leave a comment.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas
Calendar QA Team

Meeting minutes of the Calendar developer status call (2008-10-22)

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:03:20 -0700

Participants: mschroeder, dbo, clarkbw, sipaq, fallen
Simon (sipaq):
- sent email to gozer about l10n builds for trunk: gozer mentioned pretty near to l10n builds for sunbird, lightning more complicated. Localizers keep on asking sipaq about localized builds
- L10n work on Thunderbird, finding unused strings.
Martin (mschroeder):
- done some cleanup recently, removed gCalendarWindow
- litmus test case cleanup with Andreas
Daniel (dbo):
- has been left sick most of the week, but started working again yesterday
- more on iTIP overhaul
- some investigations into recent tb/ltn crasher
- thinks about a parentless occurrences solution
Bryan (clarkbw):
- Thunderbird:Activity_Manager (emre started to work on that)
- search results (tab, exptoolbar)
- POP3 disk usage options
Philipp (fallen):
- getting rid of the toolbar items, either just removing or replacing them
- posted bugs about what needs to be discussed
- everything P1 that's in work
- probably after barcelona: unifinder tied to gloda/exptoolbar
Simon reminds of blogging!
- Daniel will try to write something up on the iTIP overhaul
- Philipp will try to blog about the toolbar work or on integrating into gloda
- Martin will come up with a topic by the weekend

[October 23, 2008] Lightning/Sunbird Status Update

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:03:19 -0700

Another week has gone by and we are making good progress with bugfixing and driving the integration into Thunderbird forward. Here's the list of the 19 bugs that were fixed within the last 8 days:

Bug 290747: Use sunbird.jar for sunbird specific files
Bug 329582: Remove gCalendarWindow
Bug 332796: Incorrect behavior of up/down arrow keys in unifinder
Bug 348481: Unifinder: focus is lost when moving between events via up & down key
Bug 351145: Entry unreadable in unifinder/task list
Bug 404468: Can not review calendar whilst reviewing invitations
Bug 412817: Improve ASSERT macro output or remove the macro
Bug 415509: Only the last event of a day is selectable by mouse click in day/weekview
Bug 451018: Change "Send attendees invitations via email"
Bug 452381: Don't pass strings to setTimeout
Bug 454543: Calendar Multiday-View: Performance improvement is required
Bug 456364: Thunderbird3: Remove Find Events, Delete, Print, Reload from Toolbar
Bug 459500: Cleanup packages-static, add missing and remove unnecessary entries
Bug 459803: Searching with unifinder causes error output and doesn't work
Bug 459908: Error "gCalendarStatusFeedback is not defined" when some dialogs
Bug 460234: Sunbird fails to load a calendar if HTTP Auth is required
Bug 460994: Crash Reporter is not enabled in Sunbird
Bug 461121: Thunderbird3: Move Invitations link into status bar
Bug 461162: Port bug 451466 to calendar [make -C calendar/locales wget-en-US]

Many thanks go to all developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters that make this possible.

Meeting minute of the Calendar developer status call (2008-10-22)

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:12:31 -0700

Participants: mschroeder, dbo, clarkbw, sipaq, fallen
Simon (sipaq):
- sent email to gozer about l10n builds for trunk: gozer mentioned pretty near to l10n builds for sunbird, lightning more complicated. Localizers keep on asking sipaq about localized builds
- L10n work on Thunderbird, finding unused strings.
Martin (mschroeder):
- done some cleanup recently, removed gCalendarWindow
- litmus test case cleanup with Andreas
Daniel (dbo):
- has been left sick most of the week, but started working again yesterday
- more on iTIP overhaul
- some investigations into recent tb/ltn crasher
- thinks about a parentless occurrences solution
Bryan (clarkbw):
- Thunderbird:Activity_Manager (emre started to work on that)
- search results (tab, exptoolbar)
- POP3 disk usage options
Philipp (fallen):
- getting rid of the toolbar items, either just removing or replacing them
- posted bugs about what needs to be discussed
- everything P1 that's in work
- probably after barcelona: unifinder tied to gloda/exptoolbar
Simon reminds of blogging!
- Daniel will try to write something up on the iTIP overhaul
- Philipp will try to blog about the toolbar work or on integrating into gloda
- Martin will come up with a topic by the weekend

Mozilla Developer Center

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:25:42 -0700

Index of /mirror/stadt-bremerhaven.de

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:29:39 -0700

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Remember the Milk Provider :: Sunbird Add-ons

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:30:22 -0700

Connects sunbird/lightning to rememberthemilk.com

Calendar code moving to comm-central and status update (October 14)

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:06:50 -0700

It's been a while since my last status update on September 19 and I want to give you an update on what we've been up to in the last four weeks.

But before I do that, I want to move your attention to the fact that all calendar code development has been moved away from the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH to our new repository comm-central, that we share with the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey developers.

This benefits us in various ways:

We get all the benefits of the Gecko platform development over the last two years (e.g. better memory management, faster javascript execution, better performance, etc.)
The platform is actually developed further, while only security and crash fixes were added to the 1.8 branch, which allows us to remove a lot of workarounds and ugly hacks in our codebase
We can now actively focus on getting Lightning in shape for the next Thunderbird release (TB 3) in early 2009. Before our move to comm-central Lightning on TB3 nightlies was broken in various ways and it's getting better every day now

There is one major downside as well:

As announced earlier on various occasions, Lightning 0.9 was the last release for Thunderbird 2.0.0.x releases and Sunbird 0.9 was the last release for Windows 98, Windows ME and MacOS 10.2 and 10.3.

The reason for this is, that with the very small development team that we are having, we can only support one platform in an optimal way. For us this is Thunderbird 3, which we hope will feature a fully integrated Lightning extension in its default install. Everything else has to come after this longstanding goal of our project. There will still be Sunbird releases of course and we are planning to release Sunbird 1.0 together with Thunderbird 3

With that being said, it's time to mention the tremendous work of our developers in the last four weeks, where 63 bugs where fixed. Here's the complete list:

386432:
Unify front-end code of Lightning and Sunbird
393748:
Active tasks are dimmed in task list while completed tasks are shown in black
405196:
Unifinder: selecting event in unifinder doesn't select it in day or week view
407961:
Google sends Email reminders to all non-google attendees, 24 hours before the event
414336:
Last day in minimonth view is always not bold, independent whether events exist or not
414957:
Missing link on the Plugins pane of the Add-ons manager dialog
419007:
Invalid ics files don't trigger INVALID_TIMEZONE error, times are assumed as floating
428091:
Unifinder close button icon is misaligned/misplaced
431775:
Remove unused gopher files
432440:
A new calendar file of Israel holidays - 2008-2009
435166:
Better error handling for repeating tasks without start date
437418:
Libical shouldn't add extra linefeed after inner components of VTIMEZONE.
437441:
Finalize calendar-timezones.xpi
437622:
Upgrade via update mechanism fails, restart results in error on local calendars
438807:
Introduce "Meeting" category
438964:
Closing Edit Event window without modifications prompts Save Event dialog
448753:
Lightning and GData Provider are incompatible to Thunderbird 3.0b1pre
450147:
Some locales need to add "of" to the yearly-period-absolute-controls
450391:
Remove workaround for Task context menu
451035:
Remove the strings time.1 - time.23
451912:
Major update not offered when some language packs are installed
453330:
Make it possible to build Sunbird from comm-central
453422:
Add et (Estonian) locale for Calendar
455182:
Problems refreshing multiple Digest-authed CalDAV calendars
455221:
Graphic glitch on invitations-pane
455262:
Use PROPFIND instead of REPORT in CalDAV refresh()es
455512:
Dom_events.xpt differences bettwen ppc and i386 architectures breaks builds
455728:
Consolidate sort mechanisms in different views and trees
455733:
Consolidate filter mechanisms in different views and trees
455768:
Convert calendar/ from application/x-javascript to application/javascript
455837:
Support for re-enabling disabled calendars
455863:
Select event in unifinder scrolls multiday-view to time in its timezone
455868:
Update Sunbird and Lightning version numbers for comm-central builds
455869:
Remove MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH ifdefs from calendar trunk code
456037:
Provide Sunbird nightly builds from comm-central
456102:
Minimonth should generally be able to show free-busy states
456170:
Cannot change authentication information for GData Provider
456362:
Thunderbird3: Move Today Pane Button into Status Bar
456715:
Remove COMM_BUILD ifdefs from calendar code
456724:
Add fy-NL to calendar all-locales list
456865:
Select Calendar dialog doesn't show Google Calendars when accepting invitations
456923:
Add a build target to compare bin/ and the package list
457078:
Incorrect Icelandic language name on download page
457692:
Switch the invites dialog to use local Address Book autocomplete on toolkit interfaces
457755:
Add l10n.ini file for Calendar for new python-based compare-locales
457830:
Delete extended properties
457854:
Drag Shadow doesn't disappear after event resize
457890:
Lightning 0.9/Google Calendar 0.5 do not synchronize Google Alarms anymore
458078:
Sunbird-bin shouldn't try and link directly with libtracemalloc anymore
458163:
Lightning 0.9 source tarball is missing on FTP server
458201:
Link to 64-bit Linux version of Lightning is incorrect
458368:
Move and integrate calendar/prototypes to calendar/base
458404:
Remove -moz-pre-wrap from calendar-views.css
458492:
Llink to lightning/nightly/latest-comm-central/ builds
458589:
Drag and drop ical (.ics) attachments onto calendar icon does nothing
458611:
windows nightly build link is broken
458808:
Remove some unused entities from calendar.dtd
458830:
Lightning build instructions are obsolete
458858:
Lightning keeps asking for password on startup
459107:
Sunbird startup error (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND - nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import)
459182:
Syntax error in iCal file for Israeli holidays
459432:
Please move to Gecko 1.9
459951:
Update to links and description for CSV to iCal tool

Many thanks go to all developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters that make this possible.

Fred's developer comments: Cleaning up the trees - the first step

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:23:53 -0700

A few days ago, a new Calendar contributor, Fred Jendrzejewski, fixed bug 455728 and bug 455733. I believe that what he experienced here might be beneficial for other would-be contributors, so I asked him to write about his experience in the calendar codebase. Here is his report:

Some introducing things
Few weeks ago I started to work on the mozilla calendar code. My first interesting patches became available in the nightly builds last week and I would like to report about my experience. As this is my first blog post for the mozilla community, I will introduce myself shortly. I am a German 22-year-old physic student in his last year. Since two years I have the great pleasure to live in Paris and to get to know the French way of life (I love it).

A few months ago, I started to work on the Spicebird project, but the problems in the calendar code also catched my attention. I began working on the task / event lists and didn't like that everything was written twice. The idea was that tasks and events are very similar. This property is used almost everywhere in the code( by the calIItemBase object), except those trees. So I decided, highly motivated, to rewrite the two trees and to work on the simpler code.

So, I asked Philipp and Berend for there opinions and they liked it, but over time, the tree code became so complex that it was almost impossible to review the patches nicely. I had to step back and simplify the code first. Following Berends proposition, I started to sort out the hole mechanism for sorting and filtering items in the trees.
The new way of sorting and filtering
So I sorted out functions, modified the code and abstracted it. If you want to sort a item array now, you don't need to write this function completely by your own: you can use a preset of sort functions in the calUtils.js file. Even more practical is the solution for the filtering. We now have a calFilter object, which can handle the most common filtering mechanisms for you. We now have built-in solutions for property filtering and date filters.

First, you can associate a text field for text search to the filter object, just by passing the id as a string to the text-field to the filter. Another possibility is to set a property filter out of the property filter bag (a predefined set of filter functions) in the calFilter object. This code is just one string away from usage, as the text-field filter. If you don't like any of the built-in functions, you also can write your own filter function and set it as the property filter of the calFilter object. Here again, the date filter can use a predefined set of times (today, this week...). But you can also write your own date filter. To filter out the next 8 days you have to pass the string to the calFilter and it should work already. You'll still have the possibility to set the start and the end date manually. This is done in only one line.

Why is it nicer? I think that these are some nice functions that developers of the core code and for extensions can use. If they find other very common filter functions the filter bags can be extended easily. So actually I have cleaned up the trees now and we have created a first common set of filter and sort functions in the calendar code, that can be used as a standard implementation.
What will come?
Now I started to work on a unification of observers and tree internal mechanisms. It seems possible to have only one tree implementation with only minor modifications for the event or task tree. Wait and see...

Calendar Community Testday On Thursday, October 16

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:00:17 -0700

The next test day will be held on Thursday, October 16th. This time we want to take a look at the Lightning trunk builds in Thunderbird 3.0b1pre. Please keep in mind both are alpha versions! Therefore you should take following steps:

Though we do not expect things to go wrong, we always strongly encourage you to back up your profile, and to do your testing on a "test" profile.
Backing up a profile is easy:
1. Find your profile directory:
  Windows: %AppData%\Thunderbird
  Linux: ~/.thunderbird
  MacOSX: ~/Library/Thunderbird
2. Copy the root of it somewhere else, for example copy the Thunderbird directory and everything below it.
Creating a testing profile is also easy:
1. Launch your application with a '-P' option.
2. Create a new profile by clicking the 'Create Profile' button.
3. Click 'Next', Give it a name like "Testing Profile", click 'Finish'.
4. Select the testing profile, and click the 'Start Shredder' button.
Remember that you will have to start the application with the -P option during testing so you can pick your testing profile.
Once you have finished testing, you can delete the extra profiles, and you will be back to normal. If something goes terribly wrong (although we do not expect it to), close the application, and just replace the profile with the backed up copy. That will reset the application to the way it was before you started testing.

The goal of our test day is to run as many Litmus test cases for Lightning as possible. If you find outdated or broken test cases, please leave a comment.

Join us in the #calendar-qa IRC channel on Thursday. All the information on the testday is on our usual Test Day wiki page.

Hope to see you in #calendar-qa!

Andreas & Martin
Calendar QA Team

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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:36:25 -0700

L10n dashboard now available to Calendar localizers as well

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:29:26 -0700

Thanks to gozer, Mozilla Messaging's build guru, we now have a working l10n dashboard for the calendar localizations. Localizers, who also do l10n work for Firefox or Thunderbird should already be familiar with the dashboard, for the others here's a quick explanation of the dashboard table:

Locale: The locale code for each calendar locale
Tree: The tree ID, the Mozilla Messaging dashboard currently knows two trees:
- tb3x: Information on the localization status of the Thunderbird localization of a given locale
- cal3x: Information on the localization status of the Sunbird/Lightning localization of a given locale
%: Percentage of completion of a locale (Please note, that this will probably never reach 100%, because there are some strings in each localization which shouldn't be translated)
Errors: Number of localization errors
Missing: Number of missing strings
Unchanged: Number of unchanged strings excl. access- and commandkeys (this relates to the % number mentioned above)
Stats: Graphical history of locale status (H) and compare-locales output (C)
Status: Graphical indicator for the current state of the localization

I hope this helps our localizers in working even more effectively than they have already done in the past (if that's even possible). Thanks again, gozer!

Calendar Project - Home of Lightning and Sunbird®

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:16:18 -0700

Sunbird et Lightning de Mozilla passent en version 0.9 - Pratique sur ...

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:15:25 -0700

Mozilla ne chôme pas et ne concentre pas toute son énergie sur Firefox. La preuve, Sunbird et Lightning passent en version 0.9.

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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:14:33 -0700

Problems with updating Lightning 0.8 --> 0.9

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:13:14 -0700

To answer all the questions with a single post:

Yes, we are aware that every time you startup Thunderbird, it will try to upgrade Lightning to 0.9 but will fail with a "Download error -288". The reason for this is bug 456710, which Mozilla IT is working on. We hope that this will be resolved soon.

Until then, if you want to upgrade to Lightning 0.9, please uninstall Lightning 0.8 in the addon manager, download Lightning 0.9 and install it. Your calendar data will be preserved. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Mises à jour Firefox, Camino et Sunbird

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:13:38 -0700

Firefox 3.0.2 est disponible au téléchargement avec ses corrections de bugs et de failles de sécurité [3.0.2 - 17.3 Mo - Mac OS X 10.4 - VF - Gratuit]. S'agissant de la version Mac elle corrige des problèmes de raccourcis claviers inopérants, d'impossibilité d'utiliser le navigateur si le profil utilisateur était stocké sur un serveur AFP et de saisie de caractères japonais, coréens, chinois et indiens dans les champs textes de contenus Flash.