From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 22:48:23 EDT
--- Andrzej Pruszynski <abi@rth.coi.waw.pl> wrote: >
On Mon 6. May 2002 16:50, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > Perhaps the press release could include an
> accurate description of what
> > abiword does do (and a small note that it does not
> do tables).
>
> Not small. It doesn't change anything at all. Should
> be noted which version
> will support tables.
I'm fully in favour of a major anouncement. We have
really no idea how far off 1.2 might be - especially
if we have to improve Pango to get our new
rendering working.
I thought the whole point of the 1.0 release was to
get a lot of attention, testers, and hopeuflly
developers. Really what's the point of the 1.0
release
if we're going to keep it quiet.
I think we should publicize it but *prominently* state
that *it still doesn't do tables* - we should make
that
blindingly clear. We should also state all of our
major improvements, I think our l10n and i18n are
getting extremely impressive. We could really do with
a lot more new non-English users. We could really do
with more Windows developers, Mac developers,
non-Englophone developers and users. Without making
a fuss until an unknown point in the future, how are
we going to attract these people?
Let's do it now.
Andrew Dunbar.
> > I agree that at this point it might be unwise to
> hit mainstream news
> > sources.
> >
> > did Aiken ever manage to make anything of his
> Abiword on a CD idea?
> > I would love to be able to burn a handful of cheap
> CDs and give them out.
> >
> > Also if you like i can take the release binary and
> compress it with UPX
> > for those who want to try and cram abiword on a
> floppy disk.
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Alan
> >
> > On 6 May 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > > Date: 06 May 2002 15:42:54 +0200
> > > From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> > > To: AbiWord Dev List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Maybe we shouldn't spam the world
> with the 1.0 release
> > > announcement?
> > >
> > > On lun, 2002-05-06 at 14:48, Jesper Skov wrote:
> > > > There's some truth to be found in Joel's text
> here:
> > > >
> > > >
>
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PickingShipDate.html
> > > >
> > > > 80% of those reading the announcement with
> download AbiWord, find that
> > > > it doesn't have tables, and will never ever
> touch it again.
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure enough people, who are not judging a
> product by features they
> > > > don't use anyway, will find and start using
> AbiWord 1.0, even without
> > > > announcing it all over the place.
> > >
> > > I confirm that. I think I should agree with
> Jskov. Wait for 1.2 with
> > > Table and other stuff to announce our product to
> the world.
> > >
> > > Announcing 1.0.1 on SF, freshmeat and other
> free-software oriented is
> > > fine. Upload them to major software archives
> (even for Windows) is.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hub
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