[Cosmo-dev] Dojo 0.4 and OSAF contributions

[Matthew Eernisse]

Just a quick note to inform anyone who's following Dojo and our 
involvement with it.

As of last week, the Dojo trunk is in feature freeze in preparation for 
releasing 0.4, and it looks like all of the patches and tests I 
submitted have been accepted.

Contributions were in two areas:

Date
1. All our code for Date.add and Date.diff (now dojo.date.add and 
dojo.date.diff), plus a large number of tests including things like leap 
year and DST leaps.
2. Several bug fixes and a lot of tests for dojo.date.strftime.
3. A quickie dojo.date.getTimezoneName function and accompanying tests.

Color
Extra code for the color-conversion libraries dojo.color.hsv2rgb and 
dojo.color.rgb2hsv to allow input in the same standard ranges you see in 
GIMP/Photoshop. This will help us with color palettes for multiple 
calendars. I also contributed a bunch of tests and some fixes for bugs 
flushed out by the tests.

That's it for this go-round.

I'm really excited that we could get involved with Dojo not just as 
consumers, but as participants -- so the code we're building our app on 
can now provide benefit to a larger group of developers and users. And 
of course in the long run that will also contribute to a much more solid 
base of code for us to work with.

I've also been talking with some of the guys about the question of 
timezones, and there seem to be some interesting ideas cooking there 
that might prove good for us in the Cosmo Web UI code.


Matthew