Subject: Re: Soft feature post 0.9.5.
From: David Mandelin (mandelin@cs.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 11:02:41 CDT
I'm working on line numbering. It shouldn't be too hard, but I have much
less time for AbiWord now that school has started up again. Let me know
what you think.
Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
> I've had a chance to talk to a lot of developers on IRC recently
> regarding when to do a feature freeze.
>
> The concensus was to to a "soft freeze" post 0.9.5.
>
> What does this mean you ask?
>
> I think a good working definition is that if you are CURRENTLY working
> on a new feature for abiword that is not a plugin tell us now and we might
> left it in post 0.9.5.
>
> Here is a list of the features that are OK to be included post
> 0.9.5 that I can think of right now.
>
> 1. More image types. Dom+?
> 2. image dialog for scaling, Dom
> 3. Move Perl scripting to a plugin - Joaquin, Dom
> 4. Make plugin's work on Windows - Micheal.
> 5. Allow nested lists to exclude some previous levels - Matti.
>
> So folks please tell us now if you're currently working a on a non-plugin
> new feature otherwise you'll have to wait till post 1.0 to get it into the
> main tree.
>
> Of course bug fixes to existing features are extremely welcome at all
> times.
>
> New plugins are fine as long as they don't require changes to the
> abiword tree.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
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