0.8 RC2 is stuck

I have some bad news:

Yesterday the Apple Xserve machine producing the Mac OS X builds of Sunbird and Lightning went down and it hasn’t come up since. According to Mozilla’s IT department, it’s a hardware failure and the machine needs to be sent to Apple for repairs, which will take a while. You can find the gory details in bug 423816 (Please don’t comment in the bug unless you have something really useful to add. We don’t want to piss off Mozilla IT. These guys are great!)

For us this means, that the RC2 is stuck, since we can’t release without one of our major platforms. But you can still help us by testing the current nightly builds (just pretend that they are the RC2) on Linux and Windows. This will help us to shorten the time from the RC2 release (once it’s out) to the final release.

Here are the links:

Thanks for staying with us!

14 comments

  1. Hi,
    Latest version of Lightning 0.8RC2(?) Add new task in Today pane not working at all!!!

  2. Hi,
    Latest version of Lightning 0.8RC2(?) Add new task in Today pane not working at all!!!

  3. Niels Baggesen

    Works fine for me.
    Are you sure that you have q writable calendar?

  4. I have a bug i noticed since 0.7 and persist here in 0.8 rc2. It’s the only thing that preventing me kicking the infamous ass of Evolution and stick to Mozilla’s.
    The thing is, synching my palm pilot with evolution data server using gpilot generates an ics file. That ics file is now transparently readable for lightning 0.8 rc2 (for 0.7 I had to “sed it” in the timezones to work), but does not import well the daily repeating events (the ones with the flag UNTIL=20080321, for example) Lightning ends the repetition of the event one day before the actual “until day”, but if you double-click the event, the correct date will show in the repetition behavior resume. And if you edit that behavior, you will see that actually in the editor, the date is wrong (one day before) and you have to correct it (i’m not willing to correct every daily-repeating event everytime i sync my palm), once corrected, if you open the ics file, it shows the “UNTIL” flag ONE DAY AFTER!!!!!, of course i could make a script to search de UNTIL flag and change it one day after for sunbird show the same info as my palm… but… I think this is a bug and have to be fixed.
    Cheers!

  5. Can we get someone to manually build this stuff for Mac somewhere else? Or is the build environment that difficult to duplicate?

  6. Can we get someone to manually build this stuff for Mac somewhere else? Or is the build environment that difficult to duplicate?

  7. Ouch. Sounds like there’s lots of stuff going on behind the scenes already reading through the bug. Hopefully you guys get something worked out so .8 gets out the door sooner rather than later.
    Keep up the good work guys!

  8. Using lightning for read only calendars but can’t get the person’s alerts to be dismissed. Lightning states that it is a read only calendar when I press the dismiss button. I have “show missed alarms” unchecked in the options but still get alarms from previous months. This checkbox hasn’t worked for me in .7 or the .8 build at the top.

  9. Patrick,
    in 0.8 you can set a preference in the calendar properties dialog to enable or disable alarms for events.
    John,
    the Camino guys have been so kind to lend us a Mac OS X box temporarily.

  10. Downloading RC2 as we speak…
    I wonder, will there be a Linux x86_64 build of Sunbird 0.8?

  11. Omar, could you please file a bug if your problem hasn’t already been filed? Please include a sample ics file and state your timezone settings (Lightning as well as your system timezone). Thanks!

  12. Omar, could you please file a bug if your problem hasn’t already been filed? Please include a sample ics file and state your timezone settings (Lightning as well as your system timezone). Thanks!

  13. Sorry, but what is mariburjeka?
    Jane.

  14. In RC2 there is still the problem of modifying repetitive tasks with a mouse:
    When you create an event, set some repetition and then drag the first occurrence the program does not inform if you want to modify all the occurences… Instead, it moves this event and something bad happens – when you edit the event it is impossible to change the repetition… the controls are disabled.
    The bug seems to appear only for the first occurence not the others.