Overview
Debian is using the iCalendar format in various ways.
- Who
- Some of the iCalendar data is for the whole Debian community, such as data about major events.
- Other data sources (such as tasks for outstanding RC bugs) are mainly useful for developers and package maintainers.
- What
iCalendar is a generic format for representing events and tasks. It is defined in RFC 5545.
- There was a Mac OS application called iCal, but the iCalendar standard is not an Apple proprietary standard and it is widely supported.
- See the list of data sources below for some iCalendar data
- How
- iCalendar is a data format
- iCalendar data can be distributed in various ways, e.g. by file, email attachment, served over HTTP (usually read-only) or two-way synchronization using CalDAV over HTTP
- See the list of packages below to get started
Debian's iCalendar data sources
Debian Developers and other package maintainers can query their list of tasks using the Debian Maintainer Dashboard
- Some iCalendar data files:
Packages supporting iCalendar (client side)
- Default calendar and task management program installed as part of the GNOME desktop
- Supports regular iCalendar HTTP URLs and CalDAV servers
iCalendar support only seems to recognize events from a calendar, tasks don't appear, 776705
Iceowl-extension (Mozilla Lightning plugin for Thunderbird / Icedove)
Packages supporting iCalendar (server side)
- PHP application
- Runs in a web server such as Apache
- Stores the data to PostgreSQL
Related links
Most Bugzilla sites can export issue lists as iCalendar tasks, look for the iCalendar link on any search results page