Calendar Project Status
Mike Potter
Its been a while since the status of this project was updated, so here
is the latest.
As many of you will have noticed, there hasn't been a lot of work done
on the calendar lately (by myself or Mostafa.) The reason for this is
that OEone has decided to pause development of its HomeBase DESKTOP
product, which was based on Mozilla. We were helping to develop the
calendar because it would advance our own calendar in that product. Now
that we aren't developing DESKTOP Mostafa and I have been given other
tasks, mostly related to our web version of HomeBase (HomeBase ANYWHERE)
(http://homebase.oeone.com).
So, the question is where does that leave the Mozilla calendar? That
is a question that I can't answer right now. I will continue to
maintain the project, and work on it when I can. However, there will
not be as much work done on it as there has in the past. We will
continue to fix crucial bugs that prevent the calendar from not working,
but I think its unreasonable to expect new feature development on it in
the short term.
Of course, we are always welcoming bug fixes and new features from other
developers, as Eric has done recently. As well, the students in
Charleston are working on their projects, and some of that code will be
integrated into the main development tree. So, there will be still be
progress in the project, however it will not be at a rate that you saw
earlier in this year.
Mike
flacco
> So, the question is where does that leave the Mozilla calendar? That
> is a question that I can't answer right now. I will continue to
> maintain the project, and work on it when I can.
Well.... where does that leave us?
What does this mean for inclusion of Calendar in default builds?
Is there any indication that someone else has interest in adding
functionality to Calendar?
As a starting point, any idea what the current user base is? Any wild
guesses from download stats, Mike?
us...@domain.invalid
> Hi all:
> (...) We will
> continue to fix crucial bugs that prevent the calendar from not working,
> but I think its unreasonable to expect new feature development on it in
There is one bug which prevents Mozilla Calendar from working with
WebDAV enabled servers (iCal servers) and accented characters:
current version of the Mozilla Calendar application fails to propely
implement section 4.1.4 of RFC2445, which says:
"(...)The default character set for an iCalendar
object is UTF-8 as defined in [RFC 2279]. (...)"
Using UTF-8 will, I think, solves bugs #167800, #173039, and #181557
(marked as #167800 duplicate).
Is changing Mozilla Callendar to use UTF-8 such a hard work ?
us...@domain.invalid
Mozilla 1.4. Calendar is a great addition and something that can help us
gain freedom against infamous exchange servers. I hope not to see it
sink when he has nearly reached the state where it can bring us all such
a benefit. Really I was just waiting for it being included into Mozilla
1.4 to push its adoption around me. I hope this will be possible,
otherwise it could be a great loss.
Gary Frederick
I feel your pain. I am trying to feed my family and currently can not do
much of anything with the various projects I was active with. sigh...
You did a great service to the community. Thanks!
I'll say something on the OpenOffice.org groupware project, perhaps some
of them can get active with the Mozilla calendar.
Thanks to you and Mostafa and all the crew at OEone.
Gary
Mike Potter wrote:
> Hi all:
> Its been a while since the status of this project was updated, so here
> is the latest.
> As many of you will have noticed, there hasn't been a lot of work done
> on the calendar lately (by myself or Mostafa.) The reason for this is
> that OEone has decided to pause development of its HomeBase DESKTOP
> product, which was based on Mozilla. We were helping to develop the
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Mike Potter
State who are doing Calendar work in their class. Here's a message I
got from Mike Young:
"I recently read your newsgroup message about scaling back work on the
calendar, and wanted to let you know that besides the students in
Charleston, there is also a group of us at Penn State doing a project
with the calendar for one of our Computer Science Classes.
We are working on bug 188660 which is to add support for the Sun CDE
Calendar server. We have been working for a little while now, and plan
to have something ready for review by May. (how well it works is another
story. )
The best part is that the plan is to not just create a CDE server
connection, but to make a general interface so *any* calendar server
could eventually be used. We are trying to write it so that down the
road anyone could make an interface to a Netscape/Iplanet/SunONE/etc.
server. Hopefully this groundwork will make the calendar much more
competitive in corporate environments."
So, although Mostafa and I are not going to be able to spend as much
time on it, there are other people out there developing for the
calendar, which will probably more than make up for what we were doing
on our own.
The next few months should be very exciting for the calendar project.
Mike
Arunan Bala
> I will continue to
> maintain the project, and work on it when I can. However, there will
> not be as much work done on it as there has in the past. We will
> continue to fix crucial bugs that prevent the calendar from not working,
> but I think its unreasonable to expect new feature development on it in
> the short term.
> Of course, we are always welcoming bug fixes and new features from other
> developers, as Eric has done recently.
Hi Mike,
will you and Mostafah (or have you already) be changing the owner
fields on some or all of your bugs to nob...@mozilla.org? I'm
wondering as there are bugs such as
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189416 ("View buttons
should be type=radio") which are not so important but could
probably be done by somebody with some XUL knowledge. It may be a
way to encourage more people to contribute, and it would seem that
with everything else you won't have time for them yourselves.
Arunan
Mike Potter
wishing to contribute to the calendar.
There's no need to change the owner of those bugs.
Mike