Bobby Weinmann wrote:
> I am still unsure what the procedure is to get this patch
> accepted/rejected. Is there something else I need to do? Do I have
> to add internationalization before it is accepted, or is English
> enough for now? Has anyone tested it? Is there any problem with the
> English implementation?
It's enough as is to push it in, we can deal with further features
incrementally; it just needs someone to thoroughly test as this feature
has caused us lot of pain in the past (the patch itself looks good). (It
will not make it into 2.6.0, of course, but if it is indeed stable, then
I think we could backport this for 2.6.1.)
> I also do not know who the core developers are. Tomas Frydrych and I
> have been debating whether to have a GUI to set the smart quote
> characters for languages other than English, separate from the "Set
> Language" menu option. Are you, Tomas, a core developer, and what do
> the [other] core developers think?
The 'core developers' have never really been formally defined, the
AbiWord community is about as meritocratic and as open to newcomers as
it gets in the FOSS world, and AbiWord is the result of the contribution
of a great deal of people over the years, in different ways (bug
triaging, translation, documentation, etc.), without whom we would not
be where we are. For me the 'core developer' are the folk who have made
significant and sustained contribution to the project, and as such that
group changes (and I have no intention of naming people here, because I
would almost certainly omit someone, particularly as my own involvement
in the past couple of years has been fairly sporadic). But if there was
some big disagreement over some issue, I would pretty much expect that a
decision would be made between Uwog, Dom and Martin (but I cannot recall
there ever has been a need for this).
> I am very excited at the possibility of getting this in, and if I
> need to bribe some core developers, maybe we can arrange something :)
LOL.
Tomas
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