Subject: Re: What are we waiting on?
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 17:46:15 CST
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:44:01AM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Yeah, I knew that lists didn't export to RTF, but I had thought it
worked like HTML, where the text gets outputted in normal paragraphs,
just without the lists.
What do you think about the release?
sam th
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