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There are many areas we wish to improve and would like help with, please have a look at the [[MailNews:Address Book Help Wanted]] page for more information.
There are many areas we wish to improve and would like help with, please have a look at the [[MailNews:Address Book Help Wanted]] page for more information.


==== What's being worked on? ====
=== Roadmap & Work In Progress ===


This is a list of things we are currently looking at/working on with respect to address book. These are things known to the MailNews devs, note we'll try to keep the list up to date, but don't guarentee it, and schedules won't apply here - We have limited people for address book and we work on it when we can.  
The [[MailNews:Address Book RoadMap|roadmap]] isn't detailed, nor does it have timescales, nor has it been agreed between developers, it is more where we currently appear to be heading in the short term.  


* Drag and Drop fixes ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35837 bug 35837] & others)
The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress.
* Address Book autocomplete transfer to toolkit (WIP)
* Basic vcard redesign work - [[User:Mhovis|Mhovis]]
** Expand contact database to include a superset of all supported protocols / card versions, including sync tokens.
** Provide a framework to allow third-party protocols bi-directional interaction with a persistance abstraction layer for the contact database(s).  This would possibly use a network of contact observers.
** Each consumer of the framework would implement a "view" of the abstracted contact persistence layer, adding columns and interfaces to the persistence layer if needed.
** Translations between the different "views" would have to be considered if inputting from one interface and outputting to another (in essence using the persistence layer) is not sufficient.
** Possible relevant link libvcard? http://freshmeat.net/projects/libvc/
* Tidy up and rework of the address book preferences/settings backend - [[User:Standard8|Standard8]]
** This includes:
*** removal of redundant code
*** removal of duplicate code/optimisation of existing code.
*** possible moving of pref backend functions from nsDirPrefs into the classes that define the directories themselves as this would be more appropriate.
*** finally the removal of the nsDirPrefs code.
* Misc bugs e.g.
** ldap fixes
** UI fixes
 
==== Short and Long Term Goals ====
 
This is a brain dump being written as we talk about it on IRC. This needs much more information/design before any of it goes anywhere. Note that the above help wanted and work in progress areas apply hear as well...
 
* Pluggable address books
** A system whereby extra definitions for different formats/address book interfaces may be bolted onto the main address book code without need for major code rework. (things to remember: device synchronisation)
* Device Synchronisation Interfaces
** See [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla2:Device_Sync Device Sync]
* Revised back end
** This is potentially a better alternative to mork see [[MailNews:Address Book Native Formats]] for more info.
* Some kind of generic interface for import/export etc of different types of cards and books.
 
==== What's being thought about? ====
 
This list contains things that we'd like to be able to get round to doing, or have previously been discussing. Again, no schedules and same comments apply as above.
 
* [[MailNews:Address Book Interface Formats]]
* [[MailNews:Address Book Native Formats]]
* Relayout the new/edit card dialogs
** This would be to solve our current screen size issue
** but would also be in preparation for the addition of more fields
** [[MailNews: Address Book Card Fields]] - what fields do we want?
* LDAP
** Writeable LDAP address books
** [[MailNews:LDAP and Large Searches]]
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