{"id":180,"date":"2007-08-19T04:15:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/19\/answers_to_the_future_of_light\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T04:15:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T04:15:37","slug":"answers_to_the_future_of_light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2007\/08\/answers_to_the_future_of_light\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers to the future of Lightning post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/calendar\/2007\/08\/the_future_of_lightning_after.html\">posting regarding the future of Lightning<\/a> after Mitchell Baker&#8217;s Thunderbird announcement, I asked you to post your questions regarding this or other issues and that I would try to answer them in a followup-post.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Antonio Silva asks:<br \/>\n<strong>I would like to know if the future releases of Lightning are going to have an agenda-like option &#8211; such as the one on Google Calendar?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>There are currently no plans to implement such an option. But I really like the idea of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Miles asks:<br \/>\n<strong>On last OOOcon there was talk of integrating Th+Li as a Outlook killerapp into OOo. Is something happening on that front or was this more or less just a rumor or a wishful thought?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The intent of Sun as a sponsor of OpenOffice.org as I understand it, was never to fully integrate Thunderbird into the OpenOffice.org codebase, but to improve its feature set, so that the combination of Thunderbird and Lightning would be come a viable solution for many people in combination with the existing OpenOffice.org suite. We are still absolutely committed to that goal, so no, this was not a wishful thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Martin asks:<br \/>\n<strong>Do you have download stats for Lighting and for Sunbird? It would be interesting to know which one is more popular.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We have regular download stats for Lightning, but not for Sunbird. I&#8217;m currently discussing possible options with the Mozilla Sysadmin team, to provide us with regular download stats for Sunbird as well. I&#8217;ll let you know, once this happens.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>lfarkas asks:<br \/>\n<strong>Is there any roadmap for 0.7, 0.9 and 1.0? I always miss these kind of roadmap with some kind of dates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Calendar:Roadmap\">roadmap-like web page on wiki.mozilla.org<\/a>, but it does not provide exact release dates, especially not for later releases like 0.9 and 1.0. You might also find the <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=p6sFBIaPPT7tWR73DtdIkBA\">proposed feature list for 0.7, 0.9 and 1.0<\/a> interesting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Walter asks:<br \/>\n<strong>As many others I think that Offline support and PDA synchronization are the two big improvements that Lightning miss to became a killerapp. Do you have plan to support any of them before 1.0?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We are hoping to implement offline support with the 0.9 release. We do not expect to implement device synchronization before the 1.0 release.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Matt asks:<br \/>\n<strong>Any chance that Lightning and Sunbird will be available for Ubuntu on some repository?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The current Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha builds have pre-built Sunbird and Lightning-extension packages in the repository by default.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last posting regarding the future of Lightning after Mitchell Baker&#8217;s Thunderbird announcement, I asked you to post your questions regarding this or other issues and that I would try to answer them in a followup-post. 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