"Lies, damn lies, and statistics." (Mark Twain)

Development News

This week saw significant development activity in preparation for 0.7.10, with 31 commits in the tree, by 12 different developers.

This week's biggest commit came from Joaquin, who added a GNOME version of his Goto dialog, and fixed up parts of the GTK version. Joaquin also fixed a few bugs in said dialog.

Essentially every other patch this week was a bug fix. Notable ones included:

  1. Aaron's Top Ruler bug fixing, among other (9 fixes)
  2. Martin fixed cursor dirt problems, among others (6 fixes)
  3. Build fixes were too many to count this week, coming from many quarters.
  4. Bernhard Rosenkraenzer fixed problems compiling with the lates gcc and glibc versions.

On the L10N front, Harald Fernengel vastly improved the German translation.

For his work getting us ready for 1.0, this week's Patch Prize goes to Aaron Lehman. For his persistance in getting the rulers bug free, Aaron will $299, compliments of SourceGear. He tried to lose it by reversing a pervious consesus on file extensions, but his refusal to not let go of the rulers until they were free of erros won us over.

On The List

Traffic was down from last week, but still 138 messages were posted to the abiword-dev list. Significant topics included:

  1. Build Problems - As we prepped for the new release, there was lots of discussion on several threads about build problems, and various fixes for them.

  2. File Suffixes - Aaron started some heated discussion on this topic by removing .abw by default on Unix. Naturally, some people disagreed, and the consequences are still being sorted out.

  3. CVS - Mike Meyer proposed adding a cvs update Makefile target, which met with significant opposition, and not a few CVS hints.

  4. Optimization - Continuing the STL debate from last time, Aaron posted some gprof profiles that purported to show that UT_Vector was slowing us down. However, significant discussion then ensued as to the meaning of these statistics.

  5. Cursor Dirt - Martin issued a challenge to our QA team to find any cursor dirt that he had not fixed. Brave man, him.

  6. RTF Import - The spaces in RTF problem cropped up again this week, with a proposed fix.

Bugzilla Status

Currently, Bugzilla lists 188 bugs outstanding, with 10 of those still in SUBMIT state. Last week, we closed 18 bugs and 11 new bugs were opened.

Other News

This week's cool post award goes to Michael Pritchett, for offering a bitmap importer (our second graphics format).

Sam TH
sytobinh@uchicago.edu