Subject: Re: Upcoming releases
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 00:41:27 CST
HI Dom,
Changing the page size with page numbers in the header/footer
crashes abi right now. I hope to fix it before your release. If not we
should warn users.
Martin
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Well, a lot of development has been done on AbiWord over this past 1 1/2
> months or so since 0.7.12 was released. CVS head is significantly more
> stable than 0.7.12, has fewer known bugs, and is a heck of a lot more
> featureful.
>
> What I'd like to do is release a CVS snapshot of AbiWord in about 2 days.
> Call it a 0.9.0 pre-release if you will. There's no need to build any
> binaries, but if you'd like to, please do. I'll be providing a number of
> builds for GTK+ and Gnome on RH7, for instance. I'll be uploading all
> recieved binaries to our Sourceforge site for distribution and making
> notices on Gnotices, LWN, freshmeat, etc... Please send either me and/or the
> list a notice if you do make a binary, and post the binary on some public
> web site. There will be no need for verifications that these things work -
> they're pre-release material. But if people would like to verify things,
> please feel free to and do so.
>
> Also, I will be moving the lists dialog out of debug for the release. If you
> are building a binary and your platform doesn't have a dialog for this, feel
> free to revert the #if 1 to an #ifdef DEBUG and pop up the not implemented
> dialog.
>
> As for the future (0.9.0 and beyond), what's happening? Well, we need a
> styles dialog and the new lists dialog before 0.9.0 is out. Work is underway
> on both. I'm also working on a few very small dialogs that I'd like to add
> too, but they'll be in RSN (tomorrow?).
>
> The early stages of 0.9.x will represent a soft feature-freeze. We can
> change around the look and feel of toolbars, dialogs, menus, etc... and even
> add some new functionality. New file filters will be generally accepted
> during this phase as well, if people want to hack on them. I'll probably be
> doing some work on Word export and OpenOffice filters, and maybe even KWord
> too. Other new features will probably be added, but I'm hoping that people
> post new feature-related patches to the list for peer-review.
>
> Hopefully, 0.9.x on the whole will be focused on reporting, triaging, and
> fixing bugs. As it stands, we have ~241 bugs in bugzilla. Other bug tracking
> systems also have abi bugs (gnome, ximian, redhat) but these are generally
> duplicates of our bugzilla entries or the results of *very stupid users*.
>
> By the middle of 0.9.x there will be a hard freeze on new strings. A call to
> translators will be made. Everyone in our CREDITS.txt under translators will
> recieve an email from me. An announcement will also be made on gnome.org's
> i18n mailing list to get these people to contribute too. They're damn good
> and fast at what they do.
>
> At some arbitrary point, the tree will be frozen and I will accept only bug
> fixes into the tree (and possibly a new feature or two *if there is
> overwhelming demand and it does not produce new bugs*).
>
> By 1.0, we would ideally have 0 bugs in our software. This is ideal, but it
> may not be feasible or even possible. We should attempt to get the known bug
> count down to a (subjectively) *very low* number. Of course, some bugs are
> more important to fix than others. Also, lots of entries in bugzilla are
> RFEs and things that we might not be able to (or even want to) fix. For
> example see #305 (flashing on 8 bit displays). Most importantly, there
> should be *0* known crash-causing bugs in 1.0.
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome. Get your ideas and opinions out before
> it's too late.
>
> Dom
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