Re: Date of 2.2 release.

Hi everyone,
            I've just found out that "split cells" is not available on
windows either.

The GUI is a modeless dialog very similar to "Merge Cells". The screen
shots are here:

abi/shots/wp/unix/SplitCells.png

This definitely needs to be implemented before 2.2

Cheers

Martin

>
> Hi Folks,
> I've been busy with other things recently so number of commits
> I've made to AbiWord has dropped off. I expect that I will have
> more time after GUADEC to get stuck into things again. I think I
> will have a fair bit of time after GUADEC and until August 31st
> to work on AbiWord.
>
> I feel that we need more direction and to find some way to balance
> bugginess versus shipping issues. AbiWord-2.1.3 has significantly new and
> better features in many ways than 2.0 so at some point we have to decide
> that we have fixed enough bugs in the HEAD series to release it.
>
> One very significant change this year as opposed to last year when we
> released 2.0 is the much improved QA team we now have. You guys rock!
>
> The upshot of this great QA team is we now have lots more high quality bug
> reports than we had last year at our 2.0 release.
>
> OK so the big question: What's the schedule?
>
> Well this is hard because I don't know how hard it will be to fix some of
> the bugs we have. I also don't know how many people will work on fixing
> them. I do know I don't want to wait too long for a 2.2 release.
>
> There are some absolute killer bugs that must be fixed before 2.2.
>
> There are:
>
> 1. Slowness of typing on OSX.
> 2. No TOC dialog on OSX
> 3. No Stylist dialog on OSX.
> 4. No Fold Text dialog on OSX.
> 5. No TOC dialog in windows
> 6. No Fold Text dialog on windows.
>
> IMHO these are cirtical for 2.2. We won't release until these are in
> place.
>
> I'll leave these for Hub, Mikey and Michael Pritchett.
>
> In addition:
>
> It would be really nice to be able to import Text Boxes from MS Word for
> 2.2.
>
> There are 4 outstanding feature requests that I'm seriously considering
> for 2.2.
>
> These are:
>
> a. Make text boxes default to position relative to column (rather than
> paragraph which is what we do now.)
> b. Implement sum rows/columns in tables (one day to implement at most.)
> c. Implement Text to tables (two days to implement at most)
> d. Implement Sort table rows/columns (Maybe two days maybe longer)
>
> I feel confident I can implement b,c,d plus fix a large fraction of the
> table/TOC/text box/ other XP bugs by August 31.
>
> I *might* be able to import text boxes from MS Word by then. I suspect
> that we have much of what need already in wv and ie_imp_MSWord_97 but
> until the whole issue is understood it's really hard to put a time-line on
> this.
>
> I'm less confident me being able to fix Revision Marks/Version History
> bugs by August 31st.
>
> I hope that Tomas Frydrych will have time to work on them before then.
>
> So the upshot of this is that I think we can seriously aim for a 2.2
> release on August 31st. I feel confident we will have a wonderful program
> that we can all be proud of by then. I'm certain that we will still have
> bugs on August 31st but there is a good chance they will be small enough
> that we can live with them.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
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Received on Mon Jun 21 02:59:20 2004