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== Latest News ==
== Latest News ==


=== 16 Dec 2007, nsIAddressBook replaced by nsIAbManager ===
For latest news keep an eye on the [http://planet.mozilla.org/ planet.mozilla.org blog feeds] or more specifically [https://blog.mozilla.org/standard8/ Mark's] and [http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/ Joshua's] blogs.
 
Yesterday, I checked in the final patch in a set of patches that changed nsIAddressBook to be a service and renamed it to [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/addrbook/public/nsIAbManager.idl nsIAbManager].
 
The main thing to note is that nsIAbManager is a service and should be obtained via getService/do_GetService.
 
nsIAbManager is intended to become the "heart" of the address book with its main aim to allow management of the address books and the notification system. We hope to soon merge the listener/notification functions from nsIAddrBookSession into it as well as other improvements to its functionality.
 
=== 30 Nov 2007, Automated Tests for Address Book. ===
 
We've just checked in {{bug|405147}} on trunk. This has provided automated unit tests for some of the nsIAbDirectory functionality (or specifically the nsAbMDBDirectory implementation of it - the Mork-based local address books).
 
The unit tests will be run every time the [http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/ SeaMonkey tinderbox] build SeaMonkey on Linux. We hope to be extending it to one of the [http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/ Thunderbird tinderboxes] soon {{bug|406227}}.
 
This is good news for us, as it'll mean regressions in functions will be quickly picked up, and it also provides us with a basis to extend the unit tests to more areas of address book, and into the rest of MailNews.
 
More information about the automated tests can be found here: [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_automated_testing]
 
=== 22 Nov 2007, Palm Sync re-enabled on SeaMonkey trunk builds ===
 
With thanks to some help from the Mozilla build team, we've now got Palm Sync re-enabled for SeaMonkey's main trunk builds. This should help with testing. We hope Thunderbird will follow soon ({{bug|405012}}).
 
=== 19 Aug 2007, Read-only integration with Mac OS X Address Book ===
 
Trunk (SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre/Thunderbird 3.0a1pre) nightly builds now have the capability to access the Mac OS X address book in a read-only fashion. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927#c169 for how to set it up. Bugs/issues with the integration should be filed as new bugs after having first checked for duplicates.
 
=== 19 June 2007, Changing LDAP server parameters ===
 
Yesterday I checked in a fix for {{bug|124553}} - this fixes the problems where changes to the LDAP server parameters weren't always picked up by new searches. It also means the various attributes on [http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/addrbook/public/nsIAbLDAPDirectory.idl nsIAbLDAPDirectory] now always report up-to-date values.


== Roadmap & Work In Progress ==
== Roadmap & Work In Progress ==


The [[MailNews:Address Book RoadMap|roadmap]] isn't detailed but gives a general short-long term outlook on where the address book is heading.
The [[MailNews:Address Book RoadMap|roadmap]] isn't always detailed but gives a general short to medium term outlook on where the address book is heading.
 
The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress.


Unfortunately, we can't give timescales as time available for developers is limited.
The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress. We try to predict where something will land, but it doesn't always happen due to developers needing to work on other things.


== Help Wanted ==
== Help Wanted ==

Latest revision as of 18:41, 21 December 2012

Resources
MailNews Homepage
Address Book Homepage
Roadmap
Help Wanted
LDAP Address Books
Code Structure
Bug Locations
Related Standards

This page is for planning items related to address book part of MailNews.

Latest News

For latest news keep an eye on the planet.mozilla.org blog feeds or more specifically Mark's and Joshua's blogs.

Roadmap & Work In Progress

The roadmap isn't always detailed but gives a general short to medium term outlook on where the address book is heading.

The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress. We try to predict where something will land, but it doesn't always happen due to developers needing to work on other things.

Help Wanted

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.

Information Wanted

We'd like some information on how other products export LDIF files, please head over to MailNews_Talk:Address_Book_Help_Wanted and add some information if you are able to.

Useful Information

General Links

LDAP Logging

We've now enabled an LDAP logging facility on trunk builds of SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. More information may be found at LDAP Logging.

LDAP Alpha Schema

Before Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 we made some changes to the Address Book to allow more flexible attribute mapping. Additionally, the some of the default attributes changed, so we've put together an alpha version for the Mozilla Address Book schema find it here: LDAP Address Book Schema

Wish List

What do you want to see in address book? Many wishes/enhancements have been discussed previously.

Please let us use the discussion for what ideas we would like to see address book include in future.

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