iCalendar Interoperation Project

iCalendar interop will allow Chandler to export some of the most common aspects of calendars in a format other applications can use, and to import calendar data created in other applications.

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JeffreyHarris

News

28 April 2005

Updating this page again, hadn't been noting my progress for a while. Currently I'm working on creating a recurrence rule type in the repository. - Jeffrey

25 January 2005

VALARM import/export should now be working. I've merged icalendar import code with Morgen's Conduit/Share/Format framework. - Jeffrey

12 January 2005

iCalendar import of VEVENTs is now experimentally working in CVS (got it in just after 0.4.05). I made various small changes to vobject to get things working, for the momemnt to see them you need to do a make world. - Jeffrey

7 December 2004

I've gotten my head deep into iCalendar's RRULE semantics, I may need to back off a little to get something useful done by the time I go on vacation 18 December. Looks like I'll need to work some from Atlanta. - Jeffrey

17 November 2004

Finally home from conferences, vacations, sysadmining headaches, hoping to get tons of iCalendar work done in the coming weeks - Jeffrey

Status

Current projects

Feature	Owner	SWAG	Priority	Status	Milestone
Create an rruleset type in the repository	Jeffrey	1 week	high	In progress	0.6
Modify iCalendar import/export code to optionally exclude certain attributes	Jeffrey	3 days	high	In progress	0.6
Talk more with Alec and Bryan about rrulesets and the list view	Jeffrey	2 hours	high		0.6

Tasks for 0.6 Release

Feature	Owner	SWAG	Priority	Milestone
Get working recurrence code into Chandler, integrate with iCalendar import/export	Jeffrey	1 month	high	0.6
Create a timezone Kind and its associated Python class	Jeffrey	2 weeks	high	0.6
Make iCalendar import/export more table driven, and thus more readable and easy to expand	Jeffrey	1 week	medium	0.6
Write license, acknowledgements for vobject	Jeffrey	1 day	medium	0.6
Write documentation for vobject	Jeffrey	1 week	medium	0.6
Write VTIMEZONE generating code for vobject	Jeffrey	2 weeks	medium	0.6
Expand recurrence API in vobject to automatically give dtend for each recurrence	Jeffrey	1 week	medium	0.6
Write lots more/better tests for VObject	Jeffrey	medium	medium	0.6

Old Status

Tasks for 0.5 Release

Feature	Owner	SWAG	Priority	Status	Milestone
Set up UI to pick import file	Jeffrey	1 day	low	Done	0.5
Implement external object wrapper for VObject	Jeffrey	small	high	Done	0.4.02
Write windows registry timezone implementation	Jeffrey	1 day	medium	Done	0.4.03
Get VObject included in Chandler builds	Jeffrey	small	medium	Done	0.4.04
Finish getting TJ's RRULE code integrated into VObject	Jeffrey	medium	high	Done	0.4.06
Get a few really simple VEVENTs imported into Chandler	Jeffrey	1 day	medium	Done	0.4.06
Integrate with Morgen's iCalendar sharing code, may override other tasks.	Jeffrey	1 day	high	Done	0.4.06
Set UIDs properly for imported events	Jeffrey	1 hour	medium	Done	0.4.06
Get VALARM working in vobject and in Chandler import	Jeffrey	2 days	medium	Done	0.4.06
Write VTODO import code	Jeffrey	3 hours	medium	Done	0.4.06
Figure out which items in the repository should be exported (Only things stamped as Task or Calendar for now)	Jeffrey	< 1 hour	medium	Done	0.4.06
Deal with UIDs not mapping into UUIDs perfectly	Jeffrey	1 week	medium	Done	0.4.07
Get export to use the Sharing/Conduit/Format framework	Jeffrey	1 week	medium	Done	0.4.07