Calendar Weblog

The handling of time zones in Sunbird and Lightning has greatly improved, and you should be able to import and subscribe to calendars created with other calendar applications without any problems. We also updated our internal time zones according to the recent official changes. You can test the functionality using calendars (also created with other software), and checking if the events and tasks are shown at the correct times in the calendar views and task list.

The new Task mode with its own toolbar in Lightning is one of the prominent features for the upcoming release. Please have a look at this feature, and try it out as extensively as possible.

When testing the experimental offline support and initial timezone guessing, please have a look at the Test Day Wiki Page for instructions. We are particularly interested in your experiences using the experimental offline support, whether positive or negative. Please add a comment to the end of the 'What specifically will we be testing?' section of the Test Day Wiki Page.

Our last test day has been a great success, especially the number of Litmus testcases run. Andreas Treumann used the feedback on unclear and broken testcases to improve those, and our testcases should be more up-to-date now.

We suggest that you try a mix of Litmus and ad-hoc testing. Ad-hoc testing is testing where you attempt to use the product like a "normal user" to find any issues that crop up along the way. You also try to make the program break by doing unexpected things, just do anything you can imagine - mix up events, emails, tasks, calendar types etc. When you find something, take a look at the Error Console (especially before submitting a bug report), since there is usually very valuable information there that points to the cause of the bug.

As usual there are also some fixed bugs that need to be verified. You simply add a comment to the bug report stating what product, version and operating system you used while verifying the bug fixed.

Join us in #calendar-qa on Thursday. All the information on the test day is on our usual Test Day Wiki Page.

Happy Testing!