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AbiWord Weekly News #72, (2001, week 48, released 2001.12.04)
Welcome to issue 72 of the AbiWord Weekly News.
Much hacking on plugins this week and a few bugs closed. 0.9.6 is on the horizon...
In this issue:
Editor(s) of this issue: Jesper Skov
CVS Stats
| 2001.11.24 - 2001.11.30 | ||
| Who | Commits | In summary |
| fjfranklin | 139 | Plugin build system for modules, autoconf/make changes, wv build fix, and RPM spec update. |
| msevior | 84 | Bookmark/hyperlink import fix, headers/footers fix, aiksaurus converted to a plugin. |
| dom | 37 | Babelfish plugin, pagesize dialog update, GDict access (with Mike Pritchett), Lituanian wv fixes, OpenWriter work, fix bug report link in menu(?), fix 2069, GDKPixBuf cleanup, OpenWriter cleanup, bz2 cleanup, fix bugs 2266 and (partly) 2273. |
| mpritchett | 19 | Babelfish plugin work, Win32 tinerbox+version tweaks, fix Win32 plugin linkage problem, allow plugins to modify menus on Win32, OpenWriter/bz2 plugin Win32 build system, and zoom menu string change. |
| hub | 19 | Cocoa frontend work and Mac toolbar tweaks. |
| tomas_f | 18 | BiDi fixes, FriBidi glib tweaks, Hebrew fix, tinderbox fix, and font path fix. |
| aiken | 15 | Web maintenance. |
| cuenca | 12 | UT_map polish and started work on list export for XSL. |
| rms | 7 | RPM/release process work. |
| jskov | 7 | More squiggle tweaks, AWN #71, word count now works on selection, and a typo in the Danish localization. |
| dchart | 1 | 0.9.6 ChangeLog |
Project Of the Week
POW (Project Of the Week) and the new uPOW (User Project Of the Week) is an attempt at attracting new developers and entice help from users by lowering the bar of entry to doing something constructive for AbiWord. A POW will describe a goal and often outline how to get there.
Presently we have a few unclaimed POWs. Please see the POW status page for more details.
| Type | POW | Summary |
| uPOW | 2001.17 | Where to send AbiWord announcements |
| uPOW | 2001.09 | Determining Locale Status |
| uPOW | 2001.07 | Host for AbiWord BugDay |
| uPOW | 2001.06 | Update Feature and UI matrices |
| POW | 2001.05 | Bug-buddy support for AbiWord |
| POW | 1999.47 | Make translated dialogs fit |
| uPOW | 1999.37 | CS folks wanted... |
Bug Update
Here's the AbiWord bug update for the last week. If you can spare some time, please help us triage the bugs - you don't need to be able to program to do this.
Bug Counts
These are the bug counts for the past 4 weeks:
Date: Submitted: QA: Open: ---------------------------------------------------- 2001.11.13 164 ( +5%) 176 ( -5%) 329 ( +0%) 2001.11.20 176 ( +7%) 168 ( -4%) 327 ( +0%) 2001.11.27 172 ( -2%) 69 ( -58%) 350 ( +7%) 2001.12.04 151 ( -12%) 112 ( +62%) 352 ( +0%)
Bug Votes
As a user of AbiWord, you are able to vote on bugs you'd like to see closed. The process is quite simple:
Create yourself an account if you don't already have one.
Bring up the bug list.
Click on Bug IDs to read bug details.
If you find an interesting bug you'd like to have fixed, cast your vote by clicking on the "Vote for this bug" link on the bug description page.
You have 30 voting points you can cast in whatever proportions you'd like on anything between 1 and 30 bugs. But note that developers will likely prioritize a bug with 30 single votes than a bug with a single 30-unit vote. So vote with lower unit counts (5 or so) to make your voice heard!
From the sorted list of votes, we found the current Top 10 Bugs to be:
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1030 | Font substitution table | ||
| 2069 | this doc crashes abiwin32 | ||
| 376 | File assosciate problems for all file types with Win32Slurp | ||
| 1360 | custom pagesizes can't be entered | ||
| 1104 | AbiWord crashes when trying to load MS Word file | ||
| 1406 | xhtml documents fail to open: "Bogus html document" msg | ||
| 1799 | Missing pieces of characters at ends of lines | ||
| 1876 | some MS Word documents without password are treated as passw | ||
| 1402 | Can not use other than original type1 fonts | ||
| 1545 | Help only works for localizations en-US es-ES fr-FR |
And the Top 10 Requests For Enhancements to be:
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1276 | Table support | ||
| 1410 | Please add .doc Microsoft Word Save As file type in future releases | ||
| 1261 | Need to support footnotes | ||
| 1016 | PDF output would be nice | ||
| 1747 | background colour of text selection is always grey | ||
| 1487 | Implementation of font "encoding" | ||
| 1875 | Import of StarOffice Writer documents (*.sdw) | ||
| 1427 | "Lock" styles - disable all formatting commands except throu | ||
| 1762 | import html as produced by Netscape Mozilla Composer | ||
| 808 | Tables not imported from RTF |
Target Milestones
We are nominating bugs for the next two big releases. Users as well as developers, can have their say on which bugs to nominate by casting votes on bugs as described above. The current milestone distribution is as follows:
| Milestone | Bug count |
| Without Nomination | 325 |
| 1.0 | 124 |
| 1.2 | 4 |
| future | 76 |
Closed Bugs
Note that there are many many bugs just waiting for QA before they can be closed. Please help!
In the past week, the following 119 bugs have been closed (i.e., closed and verified):
1188, 1226, 1253, 1281, 1292, 1293, 1300, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1328, 1335, 1338, 1355, 1393, 1395, 1432, 1436, 1454, 1461, 1465, 1473, 1496, 1497, 1505, 1526, 1530, 1535, 1541, 1544, 1563, 1564, 1569, 1573, 1594, 1595, 1598, 1611, 1615, 1619, 1624, 1628, 1636, 1639, 1648, 1651, 1660, 1662, 1664, 1688, 1690, 1704, 1732, 1738, 1769, 1772, 1788, 1797, 1808, 1816, 1821, 1823, 1826, 1837, 1841, 1842, 1850, 1858, 1864, 1866, 1873, 1879, 1900, 1905, 1906, 1916, 1946, 1974, 1987, 1988, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2045, 2051, 2065, 2093, 2094, 2095, 2096, 2099, 2112, 2117, 2118, 2127, 2130, 2135, 2148, 2159, 2160, 2163, 2165, 2175, 2176, 2177, 2179, 2184, 2191, 2192, 2193, 2196, 2197, 2199, 2200, 2222, 2226, 2232, 2234,
On the Mailing List
Traffic on the developer mailing list has settled on about 200 postings per week.
You may also find interesting threads on the user and documentation lists (unfortunately the archive for the latter is broken at the moment).
This week, interesting topics on the developer list included:
commit: abiword-plugins: a more elegant setup: Not a lot of information in that mail, but F. J. Franklin has overhauled the plugins structure big time, allowing (if I understand it correctly) plugins to live in the main source tree. Dom and Michael also helped with this.
ATTN: Intent to release AbiWord 0.9.6 shortly: Dom announced intent to release 0.9.6.
DNS Issues: The machine hosting AbiSource development lost its name sometime Tuesday and didn't resurface until the weekend.
Commit: Cocoa port, first draw: Hubert Figuiere has decided Cocoa is the future on Mac and will stop working on Carbon.
commit - URLDict Plugin: Michael and Dom added a dictionary plugin. Neat.
Commit: move all aiksaurus into abiword-plugins.: Martin did just that.