Calendar:1.0 Product Planning

Calendar Product Planning

We are currently in the product planning stage of Sunbird/Lightning 1.0, and would like to collect all the ideas for feature enhancements in a single place. Our goal is to create a single index that lists what sorts of things we're thinking of doing, with links to more detailed ideas about implementation specifics or concerns.

Together with the release schedule of the planned milestone releases this document represents the road map of the calendar project.

This page is intended to replace all other existing road map/feature planning/product goals pages that exist in various places. Their content will be moved here or deleted if outdated.

You can contribute to the product planning as follows:

• If you have ideas about features listed below please create a new wiki page off of your user page that outlines your ideas (mockups welcome!) and add a link to that page in the "References" column. Or link to existing pages with examples, design thoughts, interesting articles, etc.
• If you have ideas for features listed below please add them to the most appropriate group below. Leave the prio and target fields blank, and add any references to more detailed implementation ideas.
• Please communicate your changes to the newsgroup.

Requiring new UI design

Feature	Prio	Target	References
Configuration/Administration support access rights for remote calendars allow for delegation of access rights backup/restore of all calendar data and configuration when migrating to another machine/platform or for security reasons	2	0.7
Integration with internet calendaring websites search box for finding remote calendars (like google search) publishing wizard registration for webcal:// and text/calendar	2	0.7

Requiring significant changes to existing UI

Feature	Prio	Target	References
Calendar Views modern look and feel navigation via keyboard, scrolling customizable working hours and days multiple calendars at once, clear display of conflicts display of multiple time zones (eg, by providing a second timeline)	1	0.5	Calendar:Calendar View
Better Thunderbird integration email <-> task linkage	3	1.0
Appointments/Meetings fully support basic attributes and recurrence rules invitations via address book/LDAP (auto completion) reminders via email and or message box iTIP/iMIP support use and provide free/busy information send free/busy excerpt on demand when being invited	1	0.3	iTIP/iMIP Item Dialogs
Advanced Search (boolean) search with result window	2	0.7
Tasks/Todos proper display (views or agenda only) due dates recurrence rules may be assigned to another person (access rights)	1	0.5

Requiring little or no UI changes

Feature	Prio	Target	References
Printing day/week/month view single view per page	1	0.5
Simple Search selects next/previous event/task, starting from today, that contains the entered substring	1	0.5
Synchronize Sunbird and Lightning feature parity share as much code and resources as possible	2	0.3
Offline support access cached (remote) calendar data when being offline support Thunderbird's online/offline mode sync upon reconnect	1	0.5
Device Synchronization PDA sync Windows Mobile devices (via ActiveSync) J2ME devices (via Bluetooth and PDA support) SyncML	2	1.x	JSR 82 (Bluetooth) JSR 75 (PIM API) Sync4j
Support Google Calendar Data API implement GData provider	3	1.0	Google Calendar Data API

Requiring no UI changes

Feature	Prio	Target	References
Accessibility especially the views should support keyboard navigation high contrast desktop themes should be supported/picked up properly (i.e. no constant colors in the UI) toolbar icons must be available in high contrast versions	1	1.0
undo/redo support minimum: the last delete/change operation must be revertible advanced: full undo/redo stack	2	0.7
Performance no obvious delay in drawing/resize operations (TBD) Thunderbird startup must not be delayed by more than x seconds due to Lightning (TBD, eg, 3 seconds) dialogs must appear within reasonable time (TBD, eg, ~500ms)	1	0.7
Help system tooltips online help offline help	1	0.7
Standards compliance iCal: no data loss on roundtrip of application generated ics data CalDAV	1	0.3	ICS standard tracking bug