Subject: Re: What are we waiting on?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 17:44:01 CST
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Sam TH wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:46:09PM +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> > Sam TH :
> > [problems copying lists]
> > > I just confirmed this on linux. I think this is unacceptable
> > > behavior, since it causes user data loss. We have two options.
> > >
> > > 1) Stop the release, and restart.
> > > 2) Finish the release, and the create a bugfix release.
> > >
> > > Personally, I am inclined towards 1.
> > >
> > > What do the rest of you think?
> >
> > Could we release a 0.7.12 completely without the lists, and then lists
> > support as a "bugfix" 0.7.12 release?
> >
> > As much as I think we all like to see this added, I don't think we need any
> > more bad publicity (judging just from others posts). Let's just release what
> > works, and let the other stuff be debug and/or a "bugfix" release.
>
> Here's why I think we shouldn't release 0.7.12 with this bug. If a
> user sets up a document, and uses lists, and then saves it as RTF,
> that user loses data. In my view, that's not ok. I think AbiWord
> doesn't need that bad publicity (what kind were you thinking of?).
>
This is absolutely a known bug. As I've been saying for about 3 weeks.
Importing/exporting fields to rtf does not work. Importing/exporting lists
to rtf does not work even more. However losing all text following a list
element is much worse. I'll produce a patch that fixes this and Ben Hall's
bug ASAP.
Martin
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