From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 09:53:36 EDT
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Eric Zen wrote:
> One Week!?
>
> I was expecting more along the lines of the end of September (earlier
> discussion involving STABLE in October). Especially with printing and
> 1/5 of the world's population unable to use AbiWord. This push
> wouldn't be related to RH's release, would it? You know, they'll just
> call AbiWord "Write a Letter," don't you?
We were thinking about releasing 1.1.0 in October based on HEAD, not
STABLE. To be quite honest with you, printing is no more broken now
than it was in 1.0.2. Chinese support is no more broken than it was in
1.0.2 - not to mention that this is a libiconv issue on Windows and
technically not our problem (not to mention that there are several
perfectly good workarounds to the problem...). Neither of these things
have regressed since 1.0.2, nor does it look like anyone will be fixing
them in the short term. However, during this time quite a number of
bugzilla bugs have been fixed as well as a host of others, including
fixing some build issues for a few of the more exotic platforms. Add
these up with user demand and we have a compelling reason to release
1.0.3 with all the more haste.
> *snickers*
"Write a Letter" makes sense from their perspective - they want to
simplify the desktop in order to help their users. From a Usability
perspective, this makes a lot of sense. Read the HIG suggestions.
"Write a Letter" is much more intuitive than "AbiWord". What's an Abi?
As for the temporal relativeness to the RH release, that's just an
added bonus which may or may not bear fruit. Many people know that I've
been wanting a 1.0.x STABLE series release for quite some time now, as
I have told several people on IRC in the past month. Now I'm just
speaking up on the ML about it.
Cheers,
Dom
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