Here is yet another way you can get involved with Spicebird development. Bring Spicebird to your language! Instructions to create a localization for Spicebird are now available on the wiki.
The effort involved in the localizing Spicebird to a language is relatively less if Thunderbird and/or Mozilla Calendar are translated to the desired locale. After the initial review and checkin of your localization, you may apply for an SVN account inorder to commit your updates directly to Spicebird source code repository. As Spicebird evolves towards 1.0, the localizations will also need updating.
A new mailing list and a discussion forum for have been setup for discussing localization related issues.
Spicebird now has a public code repository and an issue tracker.
The code repository (Subversion) can be used to browse through the source code or to check out the latest Spicebird code. The web interface also allows querying for changes on the repository. Subversion web-interface is available at https://svn.spicebird.org/viewvc/collab for browsing. Please go through the documentation on how to checkout the latest Spicebird source code.
Bugzilla, our issue tracker lets the users report bugs, request feature enhancements and submit patches to Spicebird. The Spicebird Bugzilla is available at http://bugzilla.spicebird.org/
We are happy to announce the release of the beta version of Spicebird - Synovel's free and open source collaboration suite. It simplifies communication for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of collaboration, like email, calendaring and instant messaging, in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application.
The application is built on top of mozilla Thunderbird, Sunbird, Xmpp4moz and adds more features and integration. The extensibility of the mozilla platform makes adding new tools and customization of the suite easy. Spicebird has a long road ahead to become a comprehensive communications suite. We seek contributions from the community towards acheiving this in the form of ideas, suggestions, bug reports and source code.
Spicebird 0.4
- Integration of email, calendaring and instant messaging into one suite
- Home screen
- Application related applets
- Tasks as a separate application
Spicebird 0.7
- Code cleanup and remove temporary code
- Basic email tabs
- Calendar theme cleanup
- Fix card view
- Restore and test lost features (import/export dialogs? calender prefs, etc.)
- Blogs as Email (Thunderbird addon/Spicebird built-in)
- Post to blogs just as you send mails to your friends!
- See comments as replies to your mail
- Event filter should detect more patterns and allow context based operations on matched within the mail.
- Instant Messaging
- UI improvements to make is as easy as typical IM application
- Store IM conversations
- Home screen applet for buddy list
- Card view improvements
- Formatting options instead of just keyboard shortcuts
- Better chat window
- Move accounts configuration to accounts wizard
- Support account types using gateways
- Get license issues resolved
- Better message alerts
Spicebird is an free and open source collaboration client from Synovel. Spicebird simplifies communication for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of collaboration in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while users can retain all the advantages of a desktop application.