Re: The Necessity of 2.8.7 Release

From: Xun Sun <xun.sun.cn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Oct 02 2011 - 21:47:01 CEST

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Urmas <davian818@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion there's a need to backport the corresponding bugfixes, which include some critical bugs, to a new stable 2.8.7 branch. Unlikely all the new features of 3.0 will be merged and debugged in near time.
> The majority of Linux and Windows users have no skill or desire to compile Abiword manually and have to deal with version more than an year old. They still report the same bugs which were fixed.

I would also like to see a 2.8.7 release. We might even backport some
of the new code (e.g., Mac improvements and epub2 plugin) to 2.8.7.
What do others think?

>
> Couldn't someone actually do this?

I have a 5-day holiday now, so might be able to do this if people have
enough interest.

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Thanks & regards
Xun Sun
Received on Sun Oct 2 21:47:08 2011

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