Mozilla Calendar Project Blog Its about time for some news…

We’re hard at work to fix many bugs in anticipation of our next release, so it’s no wonder that 43 bugs were fixed within the last 16 days by our developers.

Of particular importance are 2 bugfixes, which have bothered our users for quite some time:

• Bug 266249: Can’t re-order or sort Calendars list
  This a long-standing request by our users that dates back to the old days of the Calendar extension for the Mozilla Suite. Philipp and Daniel finally made a fix possible. Thanks guys!
• Bug 460988: OS settings for time format (12H/24H) and date format not respected
  Due to a backend change in Mozilla Core code, we were no longer using the date and time formats of the underlying operating system for a few months. This backend change was reversed last week, so things should again be as they should be.

Here’s the list of all the 43 bugs that were fixed within the last 16 days:

• Bug 266249: Can’t re-order or sort Calendars list
• Bug 328603: Calendar sqlite database issues; renaming of storage.sdb
• Bug 357980: Slovak Holidays calendar
• Bug 365404: Updater should use brand name string and not hardcode Sunbird
• Bug 370519: Calendar file for Peruvian holidays
• Bug 378754: Calendar Auto Configuration/Deployment
• Bug 416138: Moving of all-day-events in weekview not possible, but shows possibility
• Bug 460988: OS settings for time format (12H/24H) and date format not respected
• Bug 462838: Using the ‘Status’ column in unifinder to sort events/tasks leads to an exception
• Bug 463058: Remove remaining traces of Mozilla 1.8 compatibility
• Bug 465319: Show Short Version of Navigation Pane String for small resolutions
• Bug 466095: Text description still appears after task is deleted
• Bug 466283: Remove gopher support from Calendar code
• Bug 467338: Closing task or calendar tab with other tab focussed breaks the focussed tab
• Bug 468420: Consolidation of the navigation bar
• Bug 469146: Drag and drop tasks in month and multiweek views, doesn’t change tasks’ due date.
• Bug 469477: Move fromRFC3339 from calGoogleUtils.js to calProviderUtils.js
• Bug 469664: Selected tasks (with start/due date) are unreadable on windows with black desktop
• Bug 470197: Update installer for Sunbird
• Bug 471973: Make use of alarm interface in backend code
• Bug 473012: Get Lightning to use nsIObserver for overlaying mailContext menus
• Bug 473431: Latvia Holidays calendar
• Bug 473518: Vanuatu Holidays Calendar 2009
• Bug 473547: ‘Start the week on’ functionality is broken in multiweek/month view
• Bug 473661: Use popupshowing event to hook Lightning into mailContext menus
• Bug 473973: Calendar Functions failing (unable to log in)
• Bug 473980: Colombian holidays
• Bug 474207: Faked master items are missing calendar
• Bug 474228: Fix calendar mode borders (again)
• Bug 474275: Alarms don’t store on storage calendar
• Bug 474276: Add windowtype to all calendar dialogs
• Bug 474322: Add tests for default alarms
• Bug 474325: Google calendars disabled on startup
• Bug 474332: Enable package-compare step on the Sunbird win32 nightly builds
• Bug 474361: remove and rename calendar-decorated panes
• Bug 474451: Dragging the scrollbar grip in the calendar list doesn’t scroll the list
• Bug 474561: Add pa-IN to list of supported calendar locales
• Bug 474576: Error: Error parsing XML streamReference: Error: UTC is not defined
• Bug 474596: New Task button in Tasks tab displays the icon from the New Event button
• Bug 474638: Snooze or dismiss of alarms doesn’t work
• Bug 474646: Multiple alarm/reminder windows/pop-ups/popups (should get merged)
• Bug 474814: Add data: to necko protocols default for Sunbird
• Bug 475170: LDAP Lookup broken in Invite Attendees dialog

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

Happy new year to all our readers!
Here is the first installment of our status update in 2009. We fixed 30 bugs since Silvester 2008, many of those were new and updated holiday calendars, of which I wrote about extensively a week ago. Still a few important bugs were fixed, on which I will write about in more detail in the coming week.

Here’s the list of the 30 bugs that were fixed within the last 12 days:

• Bug 364487: Argentina Holidays
• Bug 376139: Sri Lanka Holiday Calendar
• Bug 377845: Decouple calendar manager from storage provider
• Bug 383470: Russian public holidays
• Bug 388000: Singapore Public Holiday
• Bug 389787: Event dialog: Customizing toolbar mode (full, icons, text) not working
• Bug 395770: Algeria Holidays (without religious holidays)
• Bug 396881: Holiday Calendar for Pakistan [Only national days]
• Bug 397180: South African Holidays
• Bug 401458: Malaysia Holidays
• Bug 403006: Pref driven calendar registration
• Bug 410287: calICalendar.getProperty returns always value type string
• Bug 415247: Support all free/busy time types (FBTYPE) defined in rfc2445
• Bug 416190: Privacy of a meeting should not impact transparency
• Bug 439620: Calendars w/o provider deployment should be marked as disabled
• Bug 447683: Use full weekday name in Day and Week views’ captions
• Bug 456938: Add information about date range for holiday calendars to website
• Bug 457586: Export calendar to HTML fails if task without due date exists
• Bug 464705: No notification if attendee deletes a single event of a recurrence rule
• Bug 469691: Unnecessary refresh of views
• Bug 471329: Update Dutch Holidays calendar
• Bug 471807: Italian Holidays calendar for 2000/2020
• Bug 471813: Remove item attribute from calIAlarm to avoid cyclic references
• Bug 471860: Use .trim*() in Calendar
• Bug 472098: Update context menu code after checkin of bug 462684
• Bug 472300: Consolidation of the Multiday-view and month-view
• Bug 472306: Brazilian Holidays
• Bug 472833: Frisian Holidays
• Bug 472927: Add Indonesian locale for Calendar
• Bug 473053: Missing QI causes exclamation mark and DAV_REPORT_ERROR

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

Hi,

almost two years have passed since I took over as calendar lead from mvl, and I think it’s time for a change. So I am stepping back from this role. There are two main reasons why I think this is necessary:

• I am going to have less time for calendar work in the future, and I fear I can’t meet the requirements of that role in the future
• I think it’s simply refreshening to have a change in lead from time to time, to gather new views on things and do them differently

So who’s my successor?
I am grateful that Philipp Kewisch has volunteered to step in. He’s both smart and a great guy to work with, and has already done a lot for the project. So he feels like the natural choice to me. Please support Philipp in his new role!

Finally, I’d like to thank the whole team for supporting me during this time. It’s been a great time for me and I learned a lot. I am sure we continue to have great releases! Having less time does not mean I am leaving the project ;-) I will certainly do a few features/bugfixes/reviews. Stay tuned!

best regards,
Daniel

PS: Philipp is at the top of the “2008 bug fix ranking“!!

Ok, 34 days without a status update :-( Some of you might think, that there’s nothing to report… which is wrong. We’re still there, we’re still fixing bugs, we’re still working hard to on the next release. In fact, even with the Christmas holidays, the Christmas shopping, the year-end preparations and celebrations we still fixed 46 bugs in the last 34 days.

But before I come to that, let’s look at 2008 as a whole. 2008 was the year, where we fixed 866 bugs. The highest count since the creation of the project eight years ago. Our leading bug-fixer that year was Philipp Kewisch (Fallen) with 190 bugs fixed. Right on his heels was Daniel Boelzle (dbo) with 176 fixed bugs, followed by Berend Cornelius (berend) with 96 bugfixes on third place. Congratulations guys!

One thing is bothering me though. As I already said yesterday we’re way to dependent on very few precious souls, which do most of the development work in the project. If you look at the numbers 53,35% of all fixed bugs in 2008 were fixed by the top3 bugfixers. 63,39% were fixed by the top5 and nearly 77% (76,91% to be exact) were fixed by our top10 development contributors. Hopefully in 2009 we can broaden our base some more while still retaining the extraordinary talent that we have in our current developer base.

That said, here’s the list of the 46 bugs fixed since the last status update:

• Bug 353696: View/Number-of-weeks is not updated with Option weeks-to-show
• Bug 384554: Kazakhstan Holidays Calendar
• Bug 402336: Luxembourg Holidays 2008/2009
• Bug 402365: Tabs break calendar mode view
• Bug 404039: New added tasks don’t appear in task list
• Bug 405650: Integer overflow during creating custom reminders
• Bug 420340: Snooze icons not transparent, grey background
• Bug 432704: Drag and Drop in Month/Multiweek view fails
• Bug 445729: Enable compare-locales for Calendar
• Bug 451821: X-Props are not roundtripped (dismiss or snooze alarms doesn’t work)
• Bug 456379: Thunderbird3: Remove lightning calendar/task toolbars
• Bug 458564: “Mail with no Date header not accepted here” failure
• Bug 460266: ‘Open task’ menu via context menu is broken
• Bug 461124: Mode/Tab doesn’t change when using Alt+[1234]
• Bug 462048: Monthly recurrence rule “Last Day Of Month” breaks Custom Recurrence Dialog
• Bug 462109: Convert eMail to event/task -> Recipient should not added to the attendees list
• Bug 462278: Week view should default to being scrolled to the “Day Starts At” time
• Bug 463014: Columns in task list are not persistent
• Bug 463050: Slight improvements to calIAlarm
• Bug 465551: Additional localization comments needed in calendar-event-dialog.properties
• Bug 466009: Calendar property page is missing Cancel/Ok
• Bug 466655: Organizer adds an alarm and/or a category -> notification eMail dialog pops up
• Bug 466664: Using Lightning makes text on Thunderbird’s tabs too large
• Bug 466981: Delete a single instance of a recurring event -> exceptions are gone
• Bug 467001: itip exception
• Bug 467069: Consolidate decorated-month-view-binding and decorated-multiday-view-binding
• Bug 467156: Fix calendar mode borders
• Bug 467330: Shortcalendarweek and shortCalendarWeek used in the same file
• Bug 467336: Recurrence dialog: datepicker elements are missing a backround graphic
• Bug 467351: Get rid of bug fix for bug 348009
• Bug 467546: Consolidate calendar-multiday-view.xml and calendar-month-view.xml
• Bug 467652: Reproducible hang when retrieving remote ICS calendar
• Bug 467724: Sunbird win32 l10n builds missing since 25-Nov-2008
• Bug 467756: Thunderbird versions on beta1 branch do not accept Lightning anymore
• Bug 467909: Remove datepicker in Lightning sidebar
• Bug 468020: Regex used to parse RFC3339 dates is incorrect
• Bug 468077: Add gl to calendar/locales/all-locales file
• Bug 468999: Add calendar.debug.log and calendar.debug.log.verbose to default prefs
• Bug 469355: Frequent hangs of “win2k3 comm-central sunbird” buildbot
• Bug 469554: Use pluralForm in Task tree – Due In column
• Bug 469840: Recurring Sundays incorrect
• Bug 470394: Guard all SQL transactions in case of database corruption
• Bug 470623: Change the property name WARN_UNSUPPORTED_MSG to WARN_MIN_SUPPORTED_OS_MSG
• Bug 470894: Finnish holidays for 2009
• Bug 470987: Sunbird.exe should have the manifest with requestedExecutionLevel=”asInvoker”
• Bug 471195: 2009 Holiday File for India

Speaking on behalf of the Mozilla Calendar project, I want to say a big thank you to everyone, who has contributed to our project in 2008, be it by providing bug fixes, doing QA work, writing documentation, writing bug reports or just telling some friends about our software. Thank you very much! I hope you stay with us in 2009. Happy new year to everyone!

We’re just two days away from 2009, so this is probably a good time to look back on 2008 and some of the good and some of the not so good stuff that happened in that year from my own perspective.

First the good stuff:

• We released two fine releases this year with 0.8 in early April and 0.9 in late September. Both releases were well received by our users and had a considerable amount of new features and UI improvements, which most people loved.
• Our development transition from the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH on CVS to the current Gecko 1.9.1 backend on Mercurial (the trunk) went very smoothly. Given the fact, that we had essentially abandoned the trunk for nearly 18 months and had had close to no testing on the trunk during our time on the branch, everything went very well. I think this speaks well with regards to the skills of our developers as well as the maturity of the mozilla platform that this was so rather painless.
• We’re well on our way to our 1.0 release and the integration of Lightning into Thunderbird 3. We’ve made some great progress on the road to integrate Lightning better into Thunderbird. The emergence of Mozilla Messaging and the energy that David Ascher and his newly assembled team have brought into the Thunderbird community make it much more exciting today to work on extending Thunderbird’s capabilities than was the case 12 or 18 months ago.
• We had some great team-building events this year. The 3rd face-to-face meeting in Hamburg, the Mozilla summit in Whistler and the Mozilla Camp Europe in Barcelona were great highlights of 2008 that both excited the community as well as the developers and other contributors that were part of these events. My thanks go to Sun for hosting the frist event and to the Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Europe for hosting the last two.

Now the not so good stuff:

• We have not yet come to the point where Lightning is part of the default Thunderbird installation. We’re having some sort of a chicken-egg problem right now. The Thunderbird crew currently does not want to enable Lightning by default in Thunderbird 3 nightly builds because of quality reasons. But we want them to enable Lightning by default ASAP because that would broaden our testing and QA coverage significantly, thereby enabling us to remove those bugs faster and more easily, that the Thunderbird crew currently sees as blocking the activation of Lightning. We’ll probably need to work this out early in 2009.
• We have not managed to increase our development community in a significant way. I’m actually very concerned about this one, because right now the 3,75 people that Sun Microsystems has assigned to the project (2 full-time developers, 1 full-time QA engineer, 1 part-time (50%) build engineer, 1 part-time (25%) user experience lead) do most of the work in the project. That is not bad in itself, but looking at it from a medium- to long-term perspective, we really need to work much harder on attracting new talent to the project to place it on a much more solid foundation. We’ve started some efforts with regards to that in 2008 with (hopefully) improved communication activities between the core team and the community, but we obviously need to do much more in 2009 to make a significant change happen.

That is my perspective on 2008. I would be interested in hearing your take on the Up’s and Down’s of our project in 2008. Until that I wish everyone of our blog readers a happy new year 2009!

We need great t-shirts!

Dear designers, we now have a great new community store, where anyone can upload designs, and t-shirts come out the other end.

We would really appreciate it, if you could help us with some cool designs for Sunbird-wear or Lightning-wear.

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.

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.