16
Apr 09

Calendar Project donations update

One month ago, I reported that the Calendar Project is now finally able to accept donations through the community giving program of the Mozilla Foundation. So I guess it’s time to reveal how we have done so far.

I currently have only received the numbers for the last two weeks of March (we started accepting donations on March 16 2009) and those numbers look quite promising. In the first five days after the initial announcement people donated $698.05 to Calendar using PayPal. For the remaining 10 days of March we took in another $437.05 bringing us to a total of $1135.10 for March through PayPal*.

We will now discuss internally on how to allocate this money in the most effective and efficient manner for the project. We will also be thinking hard about further fund raising possibilities.

Let me use this opportunity to thank everybody who has donated to the Calendar Project so far and to everyone who is planning on doing this in the future. I would also be interested in any ideas that you (our community) might have on how to raise our fund-raising capabilities.

* Please note that the total donation number should be higher than that since this doesn’t include any donations this month (April) or any check donations.


16
Apr 09

[April 16, 2009] Lightning/Sunbird Status Update

Sorry for the 7-week hiatus. I was quite busy personally and the project is busy as well. That doesn’t mean however, that Philipp and his crew aren’t fixing bugs anymore. To the contrary, a sizable chunk of bugs was squashed in the last seven weeks.

Here’s the total list:

  • Bug 308538: Foreign X-Props in VALARMs are lost during roundtrip
  • Bug 329570: Concurrent editing ICS calendars by multiple users can lose data
  • Bug 353492: support multiple alarms per events/task and absolute alarms with fixed date/time
  • Bug 363085: Not possible to enter a webdav share that requires SSLVerifyClient
  • Bug 367469: ICS x-property should allow VALUE=type parameter
  • Bug 389160: Editing color makes category list loose focus
  • Bug 392572: Correct comments in calIDateTime.idl
  • Bug 428538: Startup notice for calendars of uninstalled/removed providers
  • Bug 447824: Fix caldav ticket-based authentication
  • Bug 455515: Local calendar tasks are not shown when a remote CalDAV calendar is unavailable
  • Bug 460252: Today Pane Integration in the new Thunderbird tab model
  • Bug 463978: Details/Description textbox missing from create/edit event/task dialog
  • Bug 464133: CalDAV deletes against Zimbra server often (always?) fail
  • Bug 465019: Copy, cut, paste from context menu in calendar views do not work
  • Bug 466979: Clicking on the “Today” button in the minimonth doesn’t refresh the calendar view
  • Bug 468846: Recurring all day event -> duplicate event created
  • Bug 471774: Update calendar copyright dates to 2009
  • Bug 473366: Basque calendar
  • Bug 474025: Changing a recurring/repeating event to non-recurring doesn’t work
  • Bug 474552: Error: Assert failed: TypeError: logins[0].clone is not a function
  • Bug 475715: Create a binding for the calendar list
  • Bug 476132: Impossible to move event by drag&drop if another event is selected
  • Bug 476234: a calendar that shows the Mexican Holidays 2009
  • Bug 477248: Calendar hangs – Syntax error calProviderUtils.jsm (new XML(…))
  • Bug 478612: Add ta-LK to calendar/all-locales
  • Bug 479316: Task list and task view are empty [JavaScript Error]
  • Bug 479614: faq.html: how to publish/serve calendars should mention CalDAV (& WCAP)
  • Bug 480005: Estonian holiday calendar
  • Bug 480383: Creating new profile fails, calendar list and views are empty
  • Bug 480390: Include Lightning BuildID in install.rdf for easier QA work
  • Bug 480702: Add ifdef MOZ_UPDATER for the app update preferences UI and Help menu
  • Bug 480731: Calendar events showing reminder after scheduled event instead of before
  • Bug 480930: Calendar List not sorted according to “calendar.list.sortOrder”
  • Bug 480933: Events are shown transparent, calendar and category color is missing
  • Bug 481428: Error parsing XML streamReferenceError: getTimezoneService is not defined
  • Bug 481450: new XML() to cal.safeNewXML()
  • Bug 481472: Add Vietnamese (vi) to Calendar all-locales list
  • Bug 481499: Rename menu entry “Address Book Card” to “Address Book Contact”
  • Bug 481825: No loading of CalDav Calendar due to errors regarding parsing eTags
  • Bug 482001: Update the Iranian Holidays Calendar (in Persian and English)
  • Bug 482108: “Invalid alarm for item” errors when reading alarms from older releases
  • Bug 482116: Views are not updated after changing category color, restart required
  • Bug 482149: Today pane splitter still showing when pane is hidden in certain cases
  • Bug 482456: empty/blank status of calendar task
  • Bug 482612: too small textbox for custom snooze time in reminder dialog
  • Bug 482636: /usr/lib/sunbird Directory Requires World-writable Permissions
  • Bug 482864: Build does not generate chrome.manifest files for extensions
  • Bug 484160: Migration wizard starts with very small width/height.
  • Bug 484871: Sunbird and Lightning homepage content messed up
  • Bug 485570: absolute alarm with fixed date/time is reset to relative alarm
  • Bug 485571: absolute alarm with fixed date/time is lost after application restart
  • Bug 486676: Unnecessary alarm load on startup for all subscribed calendars
  • Bug 486709: Display of date/time of absolute reminder is confusing
  • Bug 486789: JavaScript Error “exc is not defined” in calStorageCalendar.js

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