Subject: Re: 0.7.12 for Monday?
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 09:51:55 CST
Not entirely show-stopper but...
Using smart-quotes has given me the question marks (?) instead of good
looking quotes or even the normal quote characters (' and ") for the last
couple of weeks.
Dom
>From: Thomas Fletcher <thomasf@qnx.com>
>To: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
>CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: 0.7.12 for Monday?
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:42:37 -0500
>
>On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> > HI everyone,
> > Should we shoot for a 0.7.12 release on Monday? I'll undebug
> > lists, fields and tabs (if they're not already). I guess we would want
>to
> > finsih off chinese support for 0.7.12 too. Is this feasable?
> >
> > In any case our new features include:
> >
> > WML import/export
> > HTML import
> > docbook import/export
> > Russian support
> > Chinese support
> > tabs
> > fields
> > lists
> > dynamic zoom
> > gnome-print
> > GAL for gnome build
> > Non english spell checking on RedHat 7.0
> > lots of bug fixes
> >
> > Have I left anything out? Are there any show stopper bugs?
> >
> > Thats more than enough for a release I think and Dom and I want to
>serious
> > break the gnome build to get really cool features in place for the
> > gnome-1.4 release. So lets this out to our users now.
> >
>
>I'm all for this ... it co-incides with the next planned
>RTP (QNX/Photon) patch so it would time in well with that.
>
>Still to be discussed is the future loss of SourceGear
>as an AbiWord support hub (ie with the build farm,
>cvs servers & cvs tools etc). I know that Sam had
>at one point presented a different model for binary
>releases (I think he did anyway) ... do we want to
>take a dry run at this with the 0.7.12 release?
>
>In addition to this, as a platform parity attempt, it
>would be nice to have a small test matrix that people
>testing the pre-release binary distributions could
>check against to make sure that features aren't left
>out. This would be a scaled/pruned down of the larger
>system matrix which I think that Bob has for testing.
>Even if we don't fix the discrepancies, they would
>at least be highlighted for the next release.
>
>Thoughts? Comments?
>
>Thomas
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
>thomasf@qnx.com Neutrino Development Group
>(613)-591-0931 http://www.qnx.com/~thomasf
>
>
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