Re: Next Abiword release?

From: Hubert Figuière <hfiguiere_at_teaser.fr>
Date: Thu Jul 07 2016 - 04:38:38 CEST

On 06/07/16 10:26 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>
> It's been about a year and a half since the last Abiword release. I'm
> not an Abiword developer but I do help package it for Debian and
> Ubuntu. I'd like to see a new Abiword stable release soon, at least
> before the end of the year.

3.0.2 should be releasable now that I fixed the themeing issues with Gtk
3.20... (which doesn't matter on ubuntu 16.04 anyway)

> This would fit with Debian's release cycle. Debian is freezing for
> their next release at the end of the year [1].
>
> There's been quite a few bug fixes posted to the 3.0 stable series but
> wihout a new release, distros don't really take advantage of many of
> them. Debian has cherry-picked over a dozen patches but that's still
> only a fraction of the work that's been committed.

3.0.2 should be released as there is enough bug fixes to warrant that. I
just have been very busy lately with stuff that pay the bills, and life.

I'll keep you posted.

Hub
Received on Thu Jul 7 04:38:43 2016

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