Re: AbiWord 2.7.0 plans

Hi Rob,
          I don't have any particular freeze date in mind. I guess we
should just consider what is best for our users?
We have two nice new features, annotations and curly quotes. These
could be ready for widespread use in a month or two.
I think we could also remove the redraw timer provided we make sure
there are no regressions.

Given this, one reasonable thing to do is just release 2.8.0 when
we're happy, then release 2.10 after the GSoC projects are ready.

In the past we've kind of had the idea of saving up lots of new
features or major codebase changes for a major release.

Maybe we should look at more frequent releases of major versions with
smaller changes between them.

So for example I have no problem if 2.8 is rapidly superseded by 2.10
since that way our users get new features faster.

Cheers

Martin

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Robert Staudinger
<robert.staudinger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:37 AM, sum1abi@gmail.com <sum1abi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Marc and I have been discussing a possible 2.7.0 release on #abiword,
>> and we're looking for your input on how to proceed. It seems like we
>> have two options, as of now. We can release 2.7.0 fairly soon and
>> push cairo integration off until 2.9.0 (to give adequate time for
>> testing) or we can delay 2.7.0 until the cairo work is ready. As I
>> see it, this is how the two options break down ('+' for a benefit, '-'
>> for a drawback):
>
> Regarding cairo, it seems that the maintainers have already decided
> it's off the plate for 2.8. I don't have a strong opinion on this
> really, just so you know, it should be possible to get it ready for
> prime time within, say, 4 months. At least the gtk version.
>
> My other plans for 2.8 were to get gettext support done and implement
> our own colour combos for the toolbar, so we don't need to drag in
> goffice stuff outside the goffice plugin (and the parts that's been
> assimilated). Both of these are rather local changes and easy to test.
>
> In the light of the recent IRC discussions, does anyone have a freeze
> date in mind already?
>
> - Rob
>
Received on Thu May 29 02:46:24 2008