Summary of Decisions? (lunar calendar)

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

Well - i've very quickly browsed the source using lxr of gnomecal. I 
mainly looked at the month-item which looks like it may need to be 
slightly 'adjusted' to fit with lunar-calendar support. One hardcoded 
factor it appears is that you can have a maximum of 42 days per month 
(per the canvas design). I don't think that is a problem, right?


Also - there are two inherent problems with lunar calendar support in 
gnome-pim. One is the UI, and the other is the 'backend' stuff - I'm 
beginning to think the backend stuff will be easier. Also, from reading 
the source I've noticed the 'quirks' in the calendar - e.g. 11 days were 
just 'dropped' from the calendar for example. Weird. Note: I once wrote 
(in TurboPascal) a calendar that calculated the starting day of the month 
based on the date from 1,1, 1901 - it umm, worked perfectly so the 
'dropping of 11 days' had no effect :) but anyway - I'd like to work on 
getting the backend in first. I am not the maintainer of gnome-pim so i 
can not make decisions? so basically what I'm asking for is for the 
developers/maintainer of gnome-pim to tell me how they'd like lunar 
calendar support to be done in gnome-pim. A summary or to-do list would 
be nice :) One request - can we just forget about time issues for now 
(for several reasons: 1. libastro isn't done 2. We can work on that after 
we get the dates sorted out 3. Its not as important as the rest).

Also - how will development work on this? my suggestion is a branch on 
CVS cos i think this is not going to be an easy patch to just apply to 
the main-tree or whatever (and the main tree is in feature-freeze right now).