It's good to see the calendar project developing to join the new general look and feel of the Mozilla projects in terms of roadmap and website look. Hopefully this, along with the comment from the TB team that the coming months will bring some work on mail/calendar features, portends a renewed interest in Mozilla Calendar.

Ken

of calendard currently is its lack of decent holiday treatment. Holidays need to be properties of days, not events. And repetition rules should be able to make use of these properties: "every two weeks, unless a national holiday". "Every first monday per month, except on a national or regional holiday or Sunday" etc. It should also be possible to activate an arbitrary number of holiday files - e.g. for all countries in central Europe, which is very important for business people there.

It also lacks usable alarms. I am dissapointed that the feature requirements for alarm enhacements still fails to mention the additon of the location field to the data in the alarm message. Having an alarm pop-up or an email alarm that there is a meeting 5 minutes is rather useless if it does not include the location.

How does one give input to additional things to be added to the calendar requirements list?

These new calendar roadmap pages over at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/roadmap.html are probably the best designed product planning pages I have seen here. Well worth a trip. The items 'to do' before certain milestones are very clear and straightforward, and properly hyperlinked to the Feature Requirements page (and then onto Bugzilla). A clear plan like this is always crucial when trying to manage a quite complex project like this.

I think it would be well worth Brendan and Hyatt taking a good look at the way the work - as they prepare the next Moz Master Roadmap, which currently suffers from way too much bloat for one page. Actually, for that matter, I hope Ben and MScott can find a minute from their cool work take a while to view the pages to help make their roadmaps even better - It's not always easy to provide good project documentation AND great code ! Now lets just hope they are kept up to date as those features and bugs are squished! Thanks for taking the time to make a really good pages Gabe/Si. You Rock at this !!

This redesign is very good. I'd like to make a few suggestions. They're all pretty nitpicky:

- That the most recent news is placed on the main Calendar page, and that the News page serves as an archive, so that you can check up on the latest developments more easily.

- That the navigation bar uses the style that the rest of the Mozilla website uses (a light brown background, for example).

- That the FAQ page uses definition lists (with boldfaced questions), to make it more readable.

- That the Translations page groups links by Translations, Calendar Translations, and Translation Projects.

- That the Download page is renamed Download/Install, and that the Install/Build it! page is renamed Build it! (I'm thinking that people might go to the Install/Build it! page looking for the .xpi file, only to have to go back to Download.)

Again, very nitpicky. Thanks for the great Roadmap and Requirements pages, by the way.

- MXN

* Notes (with custom categories)

* Extensive search capabilities on all objects

* Speedup of opening dialogs

* Integration with Address Book

* Tasks panel to have quick task entering field (Like MS Outlook)

* Context sensitive (menu bloat currently) rightclick menus

* &Clear button next to the events filtering textbox

* Accesskeys/commandkeys for buttons/tabs/other elements

* Ability to go n weeks forward, n days back, etc.

* Smack Tar for not contributing code ;]

Greetings,

The Calendar website redesign is quite good, although I don't remember the old one so I can't compare. It almost makes me want to contribute in some way but I have long since lost my C++ coding skills. Is it possible to contribute in other ways, perhaps with XUL coding? Information like that might also be helpful on the website, unless I missed it somewhere.

Also, I don't know if I did this wrong, but I thought I downloaded and installed the Calendar for Thunderbird (email client) but the one installed showed up under tools in Firebird. Can it reside in Thunderbird also? Perhaps the download files are switched?

Thanks, Bob.

Simon Paquet, congratulation for making the best project page on mozilla.org . We really need more sensible designs across the board :-)