Heading towards Calendar 1.0 Beta 1
Philipp Kewisch
of Sunbird/Lightning that fits together well. Due to other obligations
this goal has slipped quite a bit. We have tagged the list of blocking
bugs [1] by bugs needed for the beta and those we can move into the
next beta.
Currently, there is only one bug [2] left that we really need to solve
for this beta. It has a preliminary patch and will require string
changes. Unfortunately, the mentioned bug is not quite trivial, since
a lot of UI changes need to be done and we haven't quite agreed on
some aspects.
This means we will announce a string freeze as soon as the bug has
been fixed and release 2 weeks afterwards, or sooner if all strings
have been translated earlier.
Nevertheless, we'd like to provide a beta as soon as possible. To help
make this possible what we need most at the moment is testing! Please
download Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 at:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0b2/
And our latest nightly version of Lightning:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/nightly/latest-comm-central/
Be sure to back up your data before using this version, since it
upgrades your local storage database. Downgrading is not easily
possible afterwards without creating a new profile.
IMPORTANT:Note however as we've announced in an earlier blog post [3]
this will be the last release for the time being that includes
Sunbird. This means that now more than ever, testing is needed to make
sure that Sunbird doesn't contain any critical bugs.
If you want future Sunbird releases to happen and either have
experience with the Mozilla build architecture or are willing to
learn, please do send me an Email and I'll send you some information
to get you started.
We will make an effort towards releasing more beta versions of
Lightning on the road towards 1.0 to make sure the next release will
be as bug-free as possible and still contain the nice new features we
have been working on. Remember that we need you to fulfill this goal!
Without your valuable testing, we will surely be up for a surprise in
case a critical bug has made it into the final version without notice.
Philipp
[1]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=Calendar&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=blocking&field0-1-0=flagtypes.name&type0-1-0=substring&value0-1-0=%2B&columnlist=bug_id,short_desc,status_whiteboard&order=status_whiteboard,bug_id
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456385
[3] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/2009/02/calendar_project_at_a_critical.html