Re: Roadmap for AbiWord 3.0

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:19 -0300, Diego Sueiro wrote:
> Martin,
> It's been a while since I've last contributed to Abi (and at the
> time it was for the Gnome builds).

Welcome back!

> It's there bug (I don't know if
> you're still using bugzilla or have migrated to something else)

Still using bugzilla.abisource.com :)

> entries for the work to be done on Win32 for the 3.0 release so I can
> see if I"m able to help?

Yes, we do have a frontend component for win32:

  http://tinyurl.com/yembk7y

Surely there are bugs missing from that list, but it's a good indication
of where we stand.

Note that on win32, we have a nice MSVC++ Express project file, which
lets you compile everything with just 1 mouseclick[1].

  Marc

[1] http://tinyurl.com/ycfbjf3 - the short version is:
- checkout abiword
- checkout the msvc project within the abiword checkout
- open the solution and click "Build Solution"

> Diego
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: Roadmap for AbiWord 3.0
> > To: "J.M. Maurer" <uwog@uwog.net>
> >
> >
> > HI Marc,
> > Thanks for starting this discussion. I'm pretty confident
> > that the new PT can be merged relatively quickly. This is the lognpt
> > branch. The remaining bugs in the new PT can removed pretty quickly I
> > think.
> >
> > Unfortunately the new table branch will be much harder to get bug
> > free. There is also work on getting much more precise table controls
> > and features including vertical positioning of cells.
> >
> > Also we currently have expandable text boxes but no UI and people
> > interested in other new features for which we have bounties from
> > NLnet. (borders/shading, metadata). Are we going to try get these into
> > 3.0?
> >
> > I agree that it would be great to improve the win32 themeing. AbiWord
> > looks very dated on win32.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> After AbiWord 2.8 comes AbiWord 3.0 (let's skip 2.10, people will be
> >> confused), which means we need to decide what to put in it.
> >>
> >> Fridrich already committed some work towards a Windows 64 bit port, so
> >> that will be in 3.0 to start.
> >>
> >> Then we have some stuff lined up in branches that we need to decide upon
> >> when to merge:
> >>
> >> 1. gsoc2009gettext - port abiword to gettext, making plugins localizable
> >> 2. gsoc2009unicode - make the Win32 port a true unicode application
> >> 3. gsoc2009tablelayout - improve (table layout) performance, includes
> >> the new PieceTable.
> >>
> >> My current thinking is that I'd love to see a 'quick' 3.0 release with
> >> 1) and 2) in it. This because they are very user visible features making
> >> AbiWord useful to a big new group of people, and they are very unlikely
> >> to destabilize AbiWord. This means just a short time of stabilizing
> >> would be needed.
> >>
> >> I'm very aware that 3) will have great benefits as well, but the
> >> drawback is that it is very likely to introduce bugs that need to be
> >> ironed out. As soon as we release 3.0, we could merge this branch as
> >> well.
> >>
> >> Comments? Better ideas?
> >>
> >> Marc
> >>
> >>
> >
Received on Tue Nov 17 22:00:26 2009