The Rumbling Edge :: 2007-12-01 Sunbird 0.8 builds

{ 2007 12 02 }

2007-12-01 Sunbird 0.8 builds

Common:

Fixed: 333363 – Some providers return an allday event on the day of the event, and the day after
Fixed: 337191 – Event/Task Dialog always shows times in OS timezone regardless of timezone preferences
Fixed: 395051 – Synchronize connection.dtd on MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH and Trunk
Fixed: 396865 – WCAP only: Alarm setting for Tasks corrupted
Fixed: 400318 – Time incorrectly recalculated when Lightning/Sunbird timezone does not match system timezone (datepicker)
Fixed: 402683 – new category layout causes colliding event boxes
Fixed: 403061 – Unifinder: Edit and Delete selected event via keyboard is broken
Fixed: 404834 – Menuitem for show/hide Search Bar is broken
Fixed: 405006 – Strict warning in calendar-task-tree (aRow hides argument)
Fixed: 405127 – [Task Mode] Add ‘click here to add a new task’ feature
Fixed: 405199 – First day of week is always Sunday in prefs window
Fixed: 405490 – [Proto] Task dialog: Due date picker doesn’t work
Fixed: 405777 – calUtils’ doQueryInterface runs into infinite recursion
Fixed: 405833 – Make recurrence dialog more extension friendly (be generous with id’s)

Lightning-only:

Fixed: 390495 – [Trunk] datepicker combo from calendar tab is expanded after starting thunderbird

Outstanding bugs (marked blocking-calendar0.8+): (6)

Since 29 Oct 05: 314339 – need to handle non-native timezone bits
Since 01 Mar 06: 328996 – guessSystemTimezone doesn’t take northern/southern hemisphere into account
Since 23 Aug 06: 393395 – Offline Support infrastructure: Synchronization interfaces
Since 20 Oct 07: 400540 – Check installer removed-files against dist/bin
Since 16 Nov 07: 404056 – Select Calendar dialog is empty during export/import/publish
Since 26 Nov 07: 405459 – Task without start and due date are not displayed anymore

Bugs with blocking-calendar0.8? flags: currently 4 at time of writing. (Bugs requested to block 0.8 release)

Bugs with wanted-calendar0.8+ flags: currently 77 at time of writing. (Bugs which should make it into 0.8)

Bugs with wanted-calendar0.8? flags: currently 9 at time of writing. (Bugs requested to make it into 0.8)

Lightning .xpi:

Sunbird builds:

Clay Shentrup | 05-Dec-07 at 11:35 pm | Permalink

Note: Comment has been mirrored at the appropriate location:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/11/survey_results_out_part_3.html

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This response is a bit out of place, because I can’t find a way to post a comment to your recent post about OpenSTV.

Let me just say that it is outrageous that the OpenSTV people call STV “simple”, even in the single-winner form called Instant Runoff Voting. From an algorithmic standpoint, it is much more complicated than a few much better voting methods. And in fact it is objectively among the worst methods.

A far superior option you could have used is simply Range Voting – Olympic style scoring, like you see on product review sites (e.g. 1-5 stars). The world’s most extensive Bayesian regret calculations, by Princeton math Ph.D. Warren D. Smith, show that this superiority is even greater when the electorate is strategic.
http://RangeVoting.org/UniqBest.html

Range Voting is also just massively simpler than IRV, Condorcet, and others. William Poundstone makes the case that we should use Range Voting in political elections, in his forthcoming book Gaming the Vote (out in February).

Regards,
Clay Shentrup
San Francisco, CA
clay@electopia.org
415.240.1973