Mozilla Calendar Project Blog Its about time for some news…

I guess some of you are asking themselves how we are doing with respect to our next major release. So here’s a short update:

At the moment we are down to seven blocker bugs, which will need to be fixed before we push out the first release candidate. The status on those bugs is:

• One tracking bug with only one outstanding issue. We could release without this bug getting fixed.
• One documentation bug (release notes). A first draft for the release notes is ready. The notes are currently awaiting developer feedback.
• Three bugs have a patch or a solution was proposed, so we’re optimistic here
• Two bugs, where we are currently investigating a solution

I’m sorry that we’re not fixing those bugs faster, but two of our main developers are away for a few weeks and such a 33% drop in manpower is hard to handle for such a small project as ours.

But there’s also something positive to mention:
A few days ago, the last outstanding localization completed the translation of newly added strings. That means that Sunbird builds for all 29 languages (including English) are now available for testing purposes. For Lightning we’ll provide localized builds when the first release candidate (RC1) comes out. But all our non-English testers are encouraged to give builds in their native language a try.

English test builds for Sunbird are available here.
All other 28 languages can bei downloaded from here.

One more week has gone by and some 24 bugs got fixed. The most notable fix this week was probably:

• Bug 366177: Memory cache for storage provider
  This patch gives us a performance improvement of somewhere between 5% to 10% on local storage calendars. Our thanks go to Daniel for implementing the patch. Philipp and Sebastian Schwieger also helped on this.

Here is the list of all the 24 bugs which were fixed within the last week:

• Bug 366177: Memory cache for storage provider
• Bug 379198: Make Lightning understand event updates
• Bug 395654: Failure to renegotiate digest auth
• Bug 401273: Alarms added to all events imported via CSV file
• Bug 402841: Copy an event to the calendar and it shows up as the day before
• Bug 403594: ‘Last day of the month’ recurrence rule has been screwed up
• Bug 409966: ‘Workweek days only’ option is inversed after update from 0.7
• Bug 410635: Task/Event to eMail conversion -> subject gets a leading ‘Re:’
• Bug 410931: Update internal timezone definitions
• Bug 412746: Email addresses defect after event->task conversion on Mac
• Bug 413868: Lightning forces Thunderbird to English due to shipping sunbird-only files
• Bug 414821: Timezone dialog throws error when OS timezone doesn’t fit to internal timezone
• Bug 416240: Network ics calendar displays online but does not cache for offline access
• Bug 417526: Task preview pane corrupts Mail mode window layout
• Bug 417911: Fire viewloaded event when view is loaded
• Bug 418237: Pinstripe typo, Error in parsing value for property -moz-image-region
• Bug 418251: Categories toolbar-button popup menu are not sorted locally dependent
• Bug 418296: Unifinder event list sort key caching speed improvement
• Bug 418387: Task contextmenu: Mark Completed menuitem is often not correctly prechecked
• Bug 418585: No working Sunbird 0.8pre nightly builds available for Mac OS X
• Bug 418647: Follow-up comment on timezones
• Bug 418657: Hide Completed Task feature is broken in task list
• Bug 418792: L10n specific preferences not working
• Bug 418995: CSV import creates empty fields datastores

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

Nearly three weeks have gone by since the last status update. The reason for this was me being pretty busy with my day job, not the developers being idle and not fixing bugs. In fact 51 bugs were fixed in the last 19 days.

One bugfix is of special importance:

• Bug 327780: Need to sort out what sort of toolbar UI to offer for Lightning
  This bug enables new icons in Lightning and Sunbird which should better match the Thunderbird theme. The patch also creates a new toolbar for the task mode, which only shows task-related actions. The same goes for the menus in task mode, where all event-related functionality was removed. Our thanks go to Berend for implementing this huge patch, to Christian for his UI design work and to Mickey and Philipp for their code reviews.

Here is the list of all the 51 bugs which were fixed within the last 19 days:

• Bug 265971: n in SUMMARY of VEVENT not interpreted
• Bug 321010: Need better stripping of illegal css chars from category names
• Bug 327780: Need to sort out what sort of toolbar UI to offer for Lightning
• Bug 340949: Server cannot cope with floating events, fallback to user default
• Bug 389341: Tooltips too tall: only expand, don’t shrink height
• Bug 391379: Does not work behind a proxy with authentication
• Bug 393817: Reduce network usage by CalDAV provider
• Bug 400450: Check removed-files for wrong entries
• Bug 402407: PNGs can be re-compressed further
• Bug 406576: Investigate calIcalProperty::setDatetime_ for parentless properties
• Bug 407808: Quick-add field shrinks to a few pixel height
• Bug 408652: Task event conversion: no description text
• Bug 408786: Recurring event to task conversion is not possible
• Bug 408968: It’s not possible to convert a WCAP invitation in to a task
• Bug 412622: Wrong display of importance icons
• Bug 412723: reopened Add LoginManager bits to trunk win32 installer
• Bug 412723: Fix HTTP authentication bustage on trunk
• Bug 412737: Don’t show readonly calendars in file picker
• Bug 412918: New Tasks run out of the view
• Bug 413128: All calendars are deselected after Lightning update
• Bug 413159: Changing calendar for tasks via context menu doesn’t work
• Bug 413265: Some timezones not mapped correctly
• Bug 413474: Delete button in Mail mode does not delete events or tasks
• Bug 413484: CVS remove unused files from calendar/resources/content
• Bug 413715: Unifinder search is broken
• Bug 414519: Recurring event without gd:when breaks parsing
• Bug 414537: Task preview pane should show a link to a web page
• Bug 414573: Print button is always enabled in Mail mode
• Bug 414790: Missing calendar-management.js in imip-bar-overlay.xul
• Bug 414897: Correct capitalization of imipHtml.Comment
• Bug 415081: Get rid of lightning-wcap.xpi
• Bug 415253: Reload causes error in hidden Unifinder
• Bug 415495: Remove calendar controllers to fix XPConnect assertions
• Bug 415513: Add Japanese locale to Calendar
• Bug 415654: Use different alarm icon for suppressed alarms
• Bug 415759: Errors on sunbird startup
• Bug 415894: Remove Punjabi as a supported locale
• Bug 415956: Unifinder is always sorted by event title after startup
• Bug 415987: FREEBUSY decoding does not support comma-separated entries
• Bug 415990: JS warning: while(calGoItem = calGoPopupMenu.firstChild)
• Bug 416158: Keyboard navigation of the event list (unifinder) is slow
• Bug 416206: Erroneous drag’n’drop with tasks in multiweek/month view
• Bug 416525: Add Link for task or event does not work (URL is not saved)
• Bug 416608: Unifinder close-button seems to be in a selected state
• Bug 416802: Additional properties to allow easy customization of days in the views
• Bug 416851: Implement offline interfaces for GDATA
• Bug 417056: Disable wcap caching until dependant bugs are fixed
• Bug 417429: JS-errors when trying to Compose E-Mail to Attendees from Sunbird
• Bug 417508: Event dialog broken, impossible to edit events and tasks
• Bug 417515: Removing Progress or Priority button in task mode causes startup error
• Bug 417873: CalDAV provider needs to fire onLoad

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

Due to the huge amount of bugfixes, we could really use your help in testing all the new stuff that went in lately. So if you want to help, join us on our next bugday.