Calendar:Home Page

Welcome to the wiki of the Mozilla Calendar Project.

This wiki represents a collection of easily-editable pages providing a variety of information on both the standalone calendar application Sunbird, and the calendaring extension for Mozilla Thunderbird, code-named Lightning.

Please keep in mind that while every effort is made to keep these pages up-to-date, sometimes pages do become obsolete.

Latest Releases

• Lightning 0.8 - The calendaring extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
• Sunbird 0.8 - Our standalone calendar application for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

For end-users

These pages contain information that end-users (that's you!) will hopefully find useful.

• User Documentation - User Manual / Help / Documentation - For pre0.9 release (Needs your contribution!)
• FAQ - "Frequently Asked Questions" concerning Sunbird and Lightning
• How to contribute - Looking to get involved? Look here for some good starting points.
• Calendar:Charter (draft) - The overall mission of the calendar project
• Target Users - Who we're writing software for
• Calendar:Lightning - (jminta-will probably move?) Links to all pages related to Lightning
• Past Releases - Where we've been.
• Roadmap - Where we're going.
• Blocking Flags - How we choose what makes it into each release.

For developers

These are pages for people interested in contributing in a more formal way to Sunbird and Lightning development, whether through testing (QA), or coding.

General Info

• Team: Who is who - List of names, nicks and noticeable infos
• Past meetings April 2008, April 2007 and July 2006

Coding

• Beginner's Guide to Building Sunbird and Lightning - One-stop page to set up a development environment for calendar.
• Beginner's Guide to Hacking Sunbird/Lightning Information for someone looking to get their feet wet in the mozilla codebase for the first time
• New Sunbird/Lightning Developer's Guide (draft)- A bird's eye view of the calendar codebase
• The Sunbird/Lightning Extension Developer's Guide - Get started with creating extensions for the Calendar application.
• Meeting notes - Notes from past weekly meetings held on conference call and IRC. Also includes the schedule and agenda for the next meeting
• Style Guide - Source code guidelines for patches
• Localization - Information for translators on how to localize Sunbird and Lightning.

QA and Further Information

• Feature Implementations - proposals and overviews of past, present, and possible future features in Sunbird and Lightning.
• Calendar QA and Testing - Information for those wishing to help test development builds, in an effort to improve quality.
• Administration (Calendar: Module Ownership, Calendar:Updating libical, Calendar: Development Strategies, Calendar:Build Team Requests) - pages related to administrative tasks in calendar development (reviews, release cycles, etc)
• Build, Release and Update:
  • Calendar:Sunbird Updates
  • Calendar: UI Ownership
  • Calendar: Review Process