Re: AbiWord 2.7.0 plans

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:25 PM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 17:48 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > Annotation needs a fair bit more work before 2.8
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> > 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
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> This would argue for stopping adding new stuff to 2.7.x I'd say.
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Well in any case, apart from doing the Windows UI, the above outlines
my immediate plans, apart from bug fixes.

I've got interested in the various IM bugs being reported. I think
they'd be easy to fix if I knew how to trigger them.

The code is all in src/xap/gtk/xap_UnicFrameImpl.cpp

Cheers

Martin

> Marc
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> > Cheers
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> > Martin
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> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:45 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
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> > > [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.
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> > > Marc
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Received on Sun May 11 16:15:47 2008