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AbiWord Weekly News #54, (2001, week 30, released 2001.07.30)
Welcome to issue 54 of the AbiWord Weekly News.
AbiWord 0.9.0 was tagged this week. Go to SourceForge for sources and/or available binaries. The release will be properly announced in a few days when more binaries are available.
In this issue:
Editor(s) of this issue: Jesper Skov
CVS Stats
| 2001.07.21 - 2001.07.27 | ||
| Who | Commits | In summary |
| dom | 128 | Exporters and importers cleanup, protected variables cleanup, MS Word image import bug fix, added some About items, sources cleanup, init some vars, German update (from Christain Meyer), CJK printing fix, some wv hacking, CJK patch (from Ha Shao). |
| msevior | 37 | Allow headers/footers to be deleted, toolbar elements for header/footer editing, more list optimization, and a FAQ update (from Tim LaDuca). |
| tamlin | 26 | Control localization on Windows (from Gilles Saint-Denis), fixed Win32 printing, Win32 list dialog work, MS VC6 localization build fixes, and widen controls to fit localized strings. |
| hub | 7 | Mac OSX: API sync and building fixes, updated status matrix, Open File dialog, Mac-unix path conversion function. |
| mpritchett | 6 | Win32: XP build fixes and Styles dialog improvements. |
| jskov | 3 | AWN #52 |
| rms | 2 | pt_PT locale updated. |
| thomasf | 1 | QNX list dialog fixes. |
Patch of the week is shared between Martin (for his header/footer work) and Dom for his code cleanup rampage (yeah!).
Project Of the Week
POW (Project Of the Week) and the new uPOW (User Project Of the Week) is an attempt at attracting new developers and entice help from users by lowering the bar of entry to doing something constructive for AbiWord. A POW will describe a goal and often outline how to get there.
Presently we have a few unclaimed POWs. Please see the POW status page for more details.
| Type | POW | Summary |
| POW | 2001.22 | Sorting contents of combo boxes, and splash screen preference option |
| POW | 2001.18 | ImageMagick multipurpose graphic importer |
| uPOW | 2001.17 | Where to send AbiWord announcements |
| uPOW | 2001.09 | Determining Locale Status |
| POW | 2001.09 | Speed up bulk spell checking |
| uPOW | 2001.07 | Host for AbiWord BugDay |
| uPOW | 2001.06 | Update Feature and UI matrices |
| POW | 2001.05 | Bug-buddy support for AbiWord |
| POW | 1999.47 | Make translated dialogs fit |
| uPOW | 1999.37 | CS folks wanted... |
Bug Update
Here's the AbiWord bug update for the last week. If you can spare some time, please help us triage the bugs - you don't need to be able to program to do this.
Bug Counts
These are the bug counts for the past 4 weeks:
Date: Submitted: QA: Open: ---------------------------------------------------- 2001.07.06 80 ( -16%) 167 ( +1%) 303 ( -2%) 2001.07.13 86 ( +7%) 139 ( -16%) 310 ( +2%) 2001.07.20 77 ( -10%) 87 ( -37%) 321 ( +3%) 2001.07.27 68 ( -11%) 108 ( +24%) 318 ( +0%)
Bug Votes
As a user of AbiWord, you are able to vote on bugs you'd like to see closed. The process is quite simple:
Create yourself an account if you don't already have one.
Bring up the bug list.
Click on Bug IDs to read bug details.
If you find an interesting bug you'd like to have fixed, cast your vote by clicking on the "Vote for this bug" link on the bug description page.
You have 30 voting points you can cast in whatever proportions you'd like on anything between 1 and 30 bugs. But note that developers will likely prioritize a bug with 30 single votes than a bug with a single 30-unit vote. So vote with lower unit counts (5 or so) to make your voice heard!
From the sorted list of votes, we found the current Top 10 Bugs to be:
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1276 | Table support | ||
| 1030 | Font substitution table | ||
| 1410 | Please add .doc Microsoft Word Save As file type in future releases | ||
| 1016 | PDF output would be nice | ||
| 1545 | Help only works for localizations en-US es-ES fr-FR | ||
| 376 | File assosciate problems for all file types with Win32Slurp | ||
| 1505 | It would be nice if the menu strings were dynamically loadable | ||
| 1046 | Some localized strings truncated in Windows version | ||
| 1104 | AbiWord crashes when trying to load a particular MS Word file | ||
| 1408 | Automatic spellcheck splits words on accented characters |
Target Milestones
We have just started nominating bugs for the next two big releases. You, developer and user, can have your say on which bugs to nominate by casting your vote on bugs as described above. The current milestone distribution is as follows:
| Milestone | Bug count |
| Without Nomination | 176 |
| 0.9 | 53 |
| 1.0 | 88 |
| future | 71 |
Closed Bugs
Note that there are many many bugs just waiting for QA before they can be closed. Please help!
In the past week, the following 4 bugs have been closed (i.e., closed and verified fixed):
On the Mailing List
Traffic on the developer mailing list has settled on about 200 postings per week.
You may also find interesting threads on the user and documentation lists (unfortunately the archive for the latter is broken at the moment).
This week, interesting topics on the developer list included:
Tree Closed (0.9.0 baybee!): Dom announced that the tree had closed for the 0.9.0 release, and called for volunteers to create binaries for all the supported platforms. Shortly after, a couple of blocker bugs were found - the Linux bug was fixed, the Windows bug remains as far as I can tell - so the tree was re-tagged.