Subject: Re: Feature Freeze?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 18:23:31 CDT
Hi David,
I've been thinking about this too. I think we should at the very
least call a halt to changes to abiword's UI in the very near term.
So abiword won't change how it does the things it does. Regarding new
features I know of a number of projects in varying stages of completeness.
1. RTF import/export => Still need header export, Lists import/export
needs improvement.
2. TOC Dom expressed an interest in doing this.
3. Perl scripting, Joaquin keeps on pumping out new and useful code here
that will help us with plugins and embedding as well as Perl scripting.
Maybe Joaquin could give us an update?
4. Lines numbers. David Mendelin is working on these.
5. Plugin's, inparticular Aikasaurus. This is a really cool feature from
Jared Davis.
6. I'm thinking of enabling headers/footers to be different for
odd/even/first/last pages.
7. Interesting embedding and RPC stuff being investigated by a number of
people.
If our developers were paid by someone I could easily imagine that
someone, decreeing all new features except for x,y and z should be
stopped. Just bugfix what we've got.
If we don't do this, 1.0 will keep receding into the distance and we'll
keep putting off doing the hard surgury needed to implement the features
people really want.
GTK 2.0 and all it's coolness. Proper font support on unix. Tables,
Frames, embedded components...
So given that we're all volenteers, I'd like us to reach a concensus on
what new features should be worked on, what bugs should be fixed, at what
point do we have a soft feature freeze, when is a hard feature freeze,
what bugs can we ship 1.0 with.
Over to everyone.
Cheers
Martin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David Chart wrote:
> Is there any thought on when Abi will go into feature freeze for 1.0? I
> could claim that that's the only thing stopping me HTML'ing the help and
> starting on a tutorial but I'd be lying: it's the beginning of term and
> I've been very busy this week. However, I am reluctant to do the final
> polish on the help docs while the developers are still adding features.
> (Don't get me wrong; features are good.)
>
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> David Chart
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