Re: AbiWord 2.7.0 plans

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 17:48 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Annotation needs a fair bit more work before 2.8
>
> 1. Fix copy and pasting annotations.
> 2. Fix crashes caused by annotations spanning paragraphs
> 3. Import annotations from *.doc
> 4. Import/export them to odf
> 5. Do the windows UI for Annotations

This would argue for stopping adding new stuff to 2.7.x I'd say.

  Marc

> Cheers
>
> Martin
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> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:45 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >> I'm sure I missed a few benefits and drawbacks, so feel free to
> >> mention them. I guess another option is to release now and integrate
> >> cairo further into the 2.7 series, but I'm not sure it would be a good
> >> idea to introduce a new feature in the middle of a release cycle. I
> >> personally think a quick 2.7.0 release is the best option, since it
> >> would establish a precedence for quicker development release cycles
> >> and it would probably result in a more polished 2.8.0 release. Let us
> >> know what you think.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind us getting our act together, and ship a 'major' release
> > every 6 months or so. If we can pull that off, I'd say go for the
> > Releasing Soon option.
> >
> > Marc
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Received on Sun May 11 15:33:13 2008