Mozilla Calendar Project Blog Its about time for some news…

Hi guys,
we’re making good progress on the road to the upcoming 0.5 release. Here’s the list of fixed bugs since the last status update:

• Bug 277731
  no way to convert task event
• Bug 311263
  Adds UTF-8 request headers for CalDAV
• Bug 333688
  Converts STRING and VARCHAR columns to TEXT to avoid SQLite’s auto-conversion of strings to numbers
• Bug 357756
  Make CalDAV handle trailing parameters on the URL
• Bug 359026
  all-day events not included in calculating availability
• Bug 360120
  selection of scheduled event should be interactive
• Bug 360513
  Show file type suffix in import/export file picker filter description
• Bug 360658
  Weekly layout: No preview for ‘Selected events’ selection
• Bug 361216
  Moves all New Event/Task strings into separate dtd file
• Bug 361560
  Weekly layout: Sunday of previous week displayed in current week
• Bug 362743
  add new icons to free/busy dialog and rearrange layout
• Bug 362921
  moving event to new start-date does not update free/busy grid
• Bug 362961
  missing relation for custom reminder

As always a big ‘Thank you’ goes out to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters.

Hi guys,
again it’s been three weeks since our last status update, so it is really time for another update. Here’s the list of fixed bugs since the last status update:

• Bug 362000: Makes AUS/Prefwindow &brandShortName localizable
• Bug 330371: add and implement calIPeriod
• Bug 360674: implement zoom-feature for free/busy grid
• Bug 360259: timezone-support does not work as advertised
• Bug 360117: autoexpand freebusy-grid to 24hrs
• Bug 329035: calendar view refresh() operation has re-entrancy problems
• Bug 361900: Add nb-NO (Norwegian bokmål) to all-locales
• Bug 341971: Adds AUS update checking to Sunbird
• Bug 361204: Fixes line endings and lack of license text
• Bug 349228: Use appropriate observers in comparison in CalDAV
• Bug 359961: attendee list has some usability issues
• Bug 360991: Migrator: Welcome screen displays message text twice and does not wrap this
• Bug 357579: Clean out unused entities
• Bug 361108: Make compareItems() actually compare different things
• Bug 360696: Strict warning fixes and typo fixes
• Bug 343793: Edit title immediately after creating event via drag-n-drop
• Bug 349586: Offer automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution
• Bug 356740: Makes NSIS installer remove more obsolete files during install
• Bug 357147: cloned proxies forget about attendee list

A big ‘Thank you’ goes out to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters. As a sidenote I also want to point you to the “Rumbling Edge” blog, which as of now also carries progress reports about the latest bugfixes in Sunbird and Lightning.

Well, it’s been quite a while since our last status update. Since the last update on the 30th of September we have released Sunbird and Lightning 0.3 and everyone was pretty exhausted after the release crunch. But now almost everybody is back on board and we’re going with full steam towards the 0.5 release, which we are currently planning to release in January. So here’s the (quite long) list of fixed bugs since the last status update:

• Bug 202620: Make Alarms box biff the icon
• Bug 232202: Checking ‘done’ checkbox in Tasks sidebar scrolls to top of listbox
• Bug 310258: Adds ‘Show completed tasks’ to Lightning
• Bug 322386: Views need to send all event creation/modification/deletion through the calICalendarViewController
• Bug 324657: implementation according specification > http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:SMB_Event_Dialog
• Bug 326746: support ‘noon’ and ‘midnight’ in the timepicker
• Bug 332063: Adds week printing option
• Bug 340195: Adds printing for Lightning
• Bug 340477: add bold styling to the ‘header’ rows in the agenda-tree-view
• Bug 345469: Add images for branded wizards
• Bug 345643: Changes date format used in views to honour locale’s month/day order
• Bug 346934: Unify Sunbird/Lightning item creation/modification code
• Bug 348110: Add ICS document icons for Sunbird
• Bug 349715: Make alarm handling less strict, fallback to date/due date
• Bug 350406: Moves items common to Sb and Ln to a common jar.mn
• Bug 351031: Fixes wrong aligned date in month printout
• Bug 351860: Monthly grid unnecessarily appends second month when first day of week is set to Monday
• Bug 352005: Adds view source support to Sunbird. configure.in change
• Bug 353007: Wraps long event titles in week view
• Bug 353437: Localize file filter label for Alarm dialog
• Bug 353999: Fix misaligned event boxes due to rounding errors
• Bug 354454: “revised login code; fixing problems with wrong protocols and https probing”
• Bug 354845: Removes unneeded cruft from timezone picker that broke it after changes were made in XUL’s menulist
• Bug 355225: Remove old unneeded files when upgrading
• Bug 355295: Lightning gets its own release notes
• Bug 355304: Include exceptions when exporting to ics
• Bug 355577: add index to properties table, to speed up item construction
• Bug 355600: Uncomment some necessary stuff for repackaging l10n on win32
• Bug 356183: Prevents CalDAV provider from throwing on VTODO retrieval
• Bug 356249: Year in printout is not changed when entering the new year
• Bug 356261: Removes default prefs for wcap
• Bug 356496: Makes LOG() also work with string primitives
• Bug 356637: Lose old dayplanner icon
• Bug 356722: Fix lightning by using same jar layout as sunbird
• Bug 357027: Sets control property of two titles to the checkbox rather than the datepicker
• Bug 357252: make parsing quoted timezone ids work, and don’t cut ics values at commas when there can be only one value
• Bug 357458: Adds alert (and quits) if we find a db with a schema version number > what we know how to deal with
• Bug 357481: Fixes typo in storage provider that prevents viewing of todos in floating tz
• Bug 358511: Adds ifdef MOZ_EXTENSIONS to build.mk so DOMi builds
• Bug 358542: Fixes calls to nsIStreamLoader to comply with changes in Bug 281153
• Bug 358578: Removes reference to nsTransferable.js from customizeToolbar.xul
• Bug 358688: Moves view widths and heights to CSS
• Bug 358775: Adds calWeekPrinter.js to Windows builds
• Bug 359016: JavaScript error current item is not defined
• Bug 359530: Fixes typo that makes ‘Use Master Password’ checkbox work

A big ‘Thank you’ goes out to all our developers, contributors, localizers, testers, and supporters.

The Mozilla Calendar Project is pleased to announce the release of
Sunbird and Lightning 0.3.
Thanks to the hard work of our localizers, both Sunbird and Lightning
are available immediately in 17 different locales.
To download either of these, please visit
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
Do read the release notes before installing and using this software, as
there are some gotchas that you need to be aware of.
Sunbird Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/sunbird0.3.html
Lightning Release Notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.3.html
Thank you again to all our developers, contributors, localizers,
testers, and supporters. We would not be able to do this without your
assistance!
-lilmatt, for the MozCal team

The second release candidate builds for Sunbird and Lightning 0.3 are now available.
Key things to know about these bits:

• Sunbird: Localized versions and langpacks are now available with this RC.
• Lightning: All locales have been bundled into the extension.
• The release notes are still a work in progress; however it is believed that they contain
  most of the important information. Please read them carefully before installing.
  • http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.3.html
  • http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/sunbird0.3.html

We’d love all the help we can get ensuring that we know about all the important bugs. Please download and file bugs in Bugzilla (or, if in doubt, ask in #calendar-qa on IRC).

• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/0.3rc2/
• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/sunbird/releases/0.3rc2/

Hi folks,
I have some really good news to share with you.

It’s been officially confirmed by Michael Bemmer, Engineering Director at Sun Microsystems, on the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) that Sun is contributing significantly to the Lightning Project to provide users with an alternative open source choice by combining OpenOffice.org respectively StarOffice and Thunderbird/Lightning.

You can find the details on slides 16-19 of Michael’s presentation or watch his presentation on video (you need the ogg theora codec to watch the video).

Of course the development team is pretty excited about this, even though we were aware of this for some time already, as Sun has already contributed a lot of development effort to Lightning and Sunbird.

Please join me in welcoming the Sun developers into our community.

The first release candidate builds for Sunbird and Lightning 0.3 are now available.
Key things to know about these bits:
* Windows Sunbird users should be sure to remove any old installation of Sunbird before starting the 0.3RC1 installer. This (bug 355255) will be fixed in 0.3RC2.
* No localizations are currently available. This will change for 0.3RC2 and/or final.
* The release notes are still a work in progress; however it is believed that they contain most of the important information. Please read them carefully before installing: Sunbird Release Notes, Lightning Release Notes.
We’d love all the help we can get ensuring that we know about all the important bugs. Please download and file bugs in Bugzilla (or, if in doubt, ask in #calendar-qa on IRC): Sunbird, Lightning.

Sorry for the late update, guys. Everyone is hard at work on the 0.3 release, as you can see by the tons of fixes, that came in in the last three weeks. We’re pretty confident that we can release in September, so stay tuned for more happiness. Again thanks to everyone who’s filed bugs, submitted patches, and done QA or reviews. The following bugs have had patches checked in since the last update:

• Bug 133107: Week view and day view should scroll to useable time
• Bug 177109: Commandline handling for subscribing and jumping to specific dates
• Bug 275883: Fixes printing on mac and linux without xprint
• Bug 287550: Introduce a functioning widget for adding attendees to items
• Bug 296202: Deleting a calendar doesn’t necessarily delete its contents
• Bug 298358: Adds snooze to alarm dialog
• Bug 299223: Fixes trademark text for Windows builds
• Bug 314334: fixed component/property ownership model problem
• Bug 322831: preserves extra parameters in properties using a js object
• Bug 328011: audit calendar code for item identity comparison by id only
• Bug 328810: shutting down calendar doesn’t wait for in-progress writes to finish
• Bug 329581: Most observers are not removed on shutdown
• Bug 329912: Item dialog does not remember last ‘Details shown or not’ state
• Bug 330496: fixed getOccurrencesBetween() to respect half-open intervals
• Bug 331145: Tooltip for task without due date is not displayed and causes javascript error
• Bug 333117: Cannot use DEL key anymore to delete an item after inplace editing its title
• Bug 337885: Adds return val to all xbl setters
• Bug 338167: Localizability issues with recurNthWeek and recurLast in dateFormat.properties
• Bug 339436: Adds ids to items in contextual menus
• Bug 340229: Removing a color completely from a category doesn’t update the rule
• Bug 342456: Remove dependencies on obsolete strres.js
• Bug 342896: support for Application menu under Cocoa widgets, removes “”Quit”” from the “”File”” menu and fixes the wording of “”Close”” in the “”File”” menu”
• Bug 344561: Header boxes misaligned when view is rotated
• Bug 345500: Changing default pref for extension update checking to true
• Bug 345998: Provides shared ‘jump to date’ function and ui
• Bug 347113: Make sure we still have a selected calendar after deleting one. (sunbird version)
• Bug 347381: Print monthly calendar for selected events fails [Error: aStart has no properties]
• Bug 347427: Only show verbose lables on first and last days
• Bug 348072: repeating, multi days spanning events are not displayed in any view if the starting day is out of view
• Bug 348137: Make accel+F focus on search bar
• Bug 348651: Calendar export/publish fails due to idl change
• Bug 348660: User selection for ‘Tasks in View’/’Workweek days only’ reset on exit
• Bug 348679: Enable talkback on Sunbird
• Bug 348716: Fixes setting an alarm on just the first of a recurring event
• Bug 348796: Strips braces from UIDs when using CalDAV
• Bug 348891: Replaces nn in CalDAV REPORT responses with rn for libical
• Bug 349010: remove unused selectAddresses.dtd
• Bug 349013: Removes unused connectionPrefs stuff
• Bug 349031: Updates EULAs for Sunbird and generic ‘Calendar’
• Bug 349032: Include branding with Mac dmg
• Bug 349040: Changes to events are not reflected in the day view
• Bug 349197: calendar shouldn’t use sheet for about dialog
• Bug 349322: Cleans up html and css from calMonthGridPrinter
• Bug 349377: Adds missing license headers to lightning files
• Bug 349551: Updated builds won’t uninstall via Windows Control Panel (Sunbird)
• Bug 349743: Sets build ID in Lightning description to BUILD_ID
• Bug 349788: Observe correct pref branch
• Bug 349796: Updates mSelectTodosbyRange to handle tasks with due dates, entry dates, neither, or both
• Bug 349812: uses getInTimezone in event dialog
• Bug 350055: Package nsURLFormatter in win32 build
• Bug 350094: Changing ‘Weeks in view’ pref causes JS error if Multiweek view was not shown before
• Bug 350324: Makes alarm dialog resizable and persists that size
• Bug 350348: Removes hard coded strings
• Bug 351155: Fixes places where Win32 official branding wasn’t working
• Bug 351184: Changes X-MOZ-SNOOZE-TIME to use a calIDateTime to fix crash
• Bug 351290: Add missing description field to export
• Bug 351365: Talkback won’t install for new installs when DOMi is not present in the installer