AbiWord Weekly News #115, (2002, week 43, released 2002.10.28)
Welcome to this updated issue 115(b) of the AbiWord Weekly News.
Updates: AbiFund Update, PR nightmare gets instant results! Also, a note about bugs, and some re-assignments.
There is a chat, a mailing list, conventional meetings and the occasional product release; in short, there is a community. About one dozen people put time aside every week to help create a product that they and, they hope, others appreciate. Though this small group may be the only ones contributing code, they're goal is aided by many: People write plugins, compile binaries, mirror sites, update strings, help with questions, file bugs and many more. Indeed, an extensive community of many times that of the programming core. And, like all communities, a limit of civility is created--a point at which no one goes past to keep their community at peace. But, like all communities, something beyond them, beyond it, can cause serious damage, like a farm community suffering a drought or a religious community under persecution.
Dom Lachowicz has been a pillar of the AbiWord community for the longest time. Acting as Mayor and Treasurer, he has helped guide this hamlet to the greater era just ahead. He is also, perhaps, too trusting. For nearly a month, he's had faith that, after a recent disaster, our community would be redeemed. For nearly a month, he's asked us to have that faith, but that faith has been broken.
It was nearly one month ago, the AbiFund, which has quietly asked for donations on the bottom of this newsletter since before its XHTML age, has been robbed. The concept of Open Source Software, or Free Software, has not been about making money. It has been about community support. The AbiWord project has only asked for donations for the cost of bringing to the many the product: a small, fast and stable word processing tool that almost anyone can use.
Bandwidth, maintenance, occasional hardware replacement and, from time to time, getting a representative to a convention or meeting is all this fund has been able to be used for in the most recent of times. Our coffers flowed not with millions of venture capital, but a small sum of US$800 (eight hundred). But that number is significantly reduced to a mere US$200 (two hundred). If one major component of NYORP (the AbiServer) become damaged, that can be handled, but if two were, that may not be the case. Any significant problems that should arise now could be costly to the AbiWord community, like a disease on drought-surviving crop.
The money taken from AbiWord wasn't used for some greater purpose. It was used to buy a camera on EBay. Who's fault is that? I have seen accusations in the Slashdot community that it is the fault Dom himself. One person I've read suggested that the password was "guessed." Sure, why not, it must have been something like his mother's maiden name, or maybe AbiTheAunt. Or maybe, Dom is a competent Linux user who would never do something so incompetently foolish.
Somewhere, in this world, a digital camera is being delivered to someone who has less moral conscience Caligula. To steal from a small project dependent on every single dollar it is handed echos of the days when the Great Flood was called to eliminate such people. A digital camera is about to arrive at the home of some petty figure with no considerations beyond their own whims. We will probably never learn who this, as they're protected by two companies with varying levels of trust and reliability: PayPal and Ebay, with the former being of the greatest concern. PayPal has not only failed to uncover this person or persons, but they have failed to even try. PayPal chooses not to even acknowledge a the claim that was brought before it. PayPal manages accounts with so little care, they make Hitler appear loving. If no one else, it is PayPal that must pay for its failure to investigate, and it is PayPal for which we need a replacement.
And, I ask, what will you do? Will you dump your account and leave? Will you write to your governmental representative requesting regulation? Will you help build a class action suit? Will you create a trustworthy alternative? Will you do anything at all to assist? You probably will not. You will probably forget or live in apathy of this travesty, always placing the Rubicon further south. You probably don't even have the decency to offer condolences, much less donate to help restore our community. If you refuse to assist or even care, you may be just as bad as that entity which has participated in the theft of US$500 (five hundred). And yet, if you could just see your way to help in anyway, it would be you who would benefit from this community, just as this community can benefit from you. Like all Open Source or Free Software communities, you can help in more than one way, and I ask you now, has there ever been a greater time to care?
In this issue:
Editor(s) of this issue: E. A. Zen
If you're interested in using AbiWord for the first time, receiving a more uptodate version, any particular version or special release, feel free to visit the new Latest Releases page.
Discussions
Traffic on the developer mailing list has settled at about 200-400 postings per week.
This week, big schnitzle announcements:
Announce: AbiWord Fund Robbed :
I'm duty bound to let you all know that the AbiWord Fund/Tip Jar has been
robbed approximately three weeks ago. I'm telling you this now, rather than
sooner, since I believed that Paypal would do something about my complaints
during the interim, and that this would all be resolved quietly. Today, 23
days later, this does not look like it will happen.
Despite my repeated phone calls, emails, faxes, etc... to Paypal, I have not
heard a response from them, let alone a positive one where they say "you're
getting your money back." They have not even acknowledged my complaint tickets
with so much as an automated email.
Paypal is not a bank, so they do not operate under the same rules and
conditions as a bank (let alone the government regulations and FDIC stuff),
and as such, I have minimal recourse against them at the moment. Their silence
implies to me that they are treating this matter as if I got mugged on the
street, rather than as if someone walked into their bank and withdrew my money
without my consent. What further enrages me is that someone tried to withdraw
$1200 from my credit card the day before. Thankfully, that party failed.
Evidence of this is http://www.abisource.com/~dom/paypal_scam.png
I *do not* recommend emailing Jun Jiang, as his camera was bought illegally
using our money. He is a victim of this too, albeit to a much lesser extent. I
do however, recommend doing several things:
1) Writing to Paypal, in letter, email, or fax form alerting them to this
travesty.
2) Calling Paypal on AbiWord's behalf.
3) Writing or calling your Congressman/woman, pointing out that Paypal is
acting like a bank, but not operating under formal banking laws.
4) Boycotting Paypal because of these reasons, and the fact that their system
is notoriously insecure, and encouraging others to do the same.
More information on how to do so, including some horror stories are available
at http://www.paypalsucks.com
My username: cinamod@hotmail.com
Paypal transaction number: #42V44263PP357062S
Ebay transaction number: #1383584373
FYI, the Fund is currently at $206 instead of about $800 thanks to this
cretin. This puts a serious damper on my hopes of re-establishing a bi-weekly
patch prize.
And to whomever stole nearly $600 from an OpenSource, not-for-profit
organization's bank account to buy a lousy camera, FUCK YOU. Pond scum now has
something to look down upon. Orphans and elderly women beware! Enjoy your new
SONY PEG-NR70V CLIÉÖ PDA /MP3/Camera
Regretfully,
Dom
A very nice and polite woman named Heather from PayPal called my home number
this morning in order to resolve this dispute between AbiWord and PayPal.
She emailed me 2 affidavits that I must sign, notarize, and then mail via post
back to the PayPal headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. The $581 will be credited
to my account immediately thereafter. This means that within one working week
the AbiWord Fund will have its $581 back, less the cost of postage and a
notary's fee. All in all, that isn't so bad.
To the folks at PayPal, I applaud you for doing the right thing, even if it
took a while to do it. In my eyes, I feel that your company has redeemed
itself. I only pray that your company handles all future complaints with the
due-diligence that they deserve.
To all of those who have written letters of support to both me and PayPal on
my behalf, I thank you. I think that if nothing else, we've helped raise some
awareness in the general community. At the very least, we've gotten our money
back :)
Thanks,
Dom
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*) The PayPal documents were multi-page MS Word documents. AbiWord opened and
printed both copies (paper output in my hands) before OpenOffice even loaded.
Abi's versions look better, to boot.
*) Omaha is also the US city where Nyorp, our "little BSD server that could"
resides.
This week, interesting topics on the developer list included:
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Selecting the right locale under window : Jordi notes that Microsoft and AbiWord have different lingual priorities. As explained, when a user wants AbiWord to use a language that Windows itself doesn't support, they must edit Abiword.Profile (custom) in four different places, three of which, Andrew explains, should be combined into a single GUI string's setting. Everyone agrees that there should be a GUI option, and Alan makes another attack on T/wiki. Meantime, all of this already had an RFE.
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and HEADS UP: Working on the Status Bar : Will's refactoring the statusbar to work with an environment's native widgets. This is the graphical status hacking mentioned in short last week. You can watch his work here. You can also see the QNX port (by Johan) here*.
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Encoding is totally broken. : Martin discovers the joy of endian bugs, as this "fred" guy comes up as some UCS hex. Ok, not the most interesting thread, but I do wonder who fred is and why Martin talks to him over the secret AbiChat plugin*.
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Commit: MSWord improvements : Dom improves and imports more WV goodness to AbiWord. As it's just another day in Abidom, I'd normally skip this, but Jordi believes I don't cover enough of the Windows' developments, so, here's my olive branch.
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Intent to release 1.1.1 November 8th. : Martin is asked by Dom to take care of the next developers' release. He's promising more glory of tables and greater stability. He's also going to knock the stuffing out of Mark, who will get around to 1.0.4 sometime in the next decade. Sure, the end of the month is the GNOME freeze, but we're rebels. Do you want GTK2 right or b0rken? Also mentioned here: Mark may, jus' a li'l bit, have time to fix those Solaris build issues.
This week, interesting topics the user included:
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AW on RedHat 8.0 problems and Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems-resolved : Uri Elias starts off with one problem; then, Reuben D. Budiardja asks about a font-related problem. While Uri gets a minimum of help, everyone quickly focuses on a font issue in RH8. Brought to the attention of the Gnumeric developers, the problem appears to originate from version of freetype shipped with RH8. A bug report filed. I would like to thank all users who file bug reports on both current stable and cvs HEAD
QNX...here*:
No gaurantee that it's still there.
That's the wacky crazy world of IP's for ya.
AbiChat Plugin*:
Plugin does not really exist.
Consult your user's guide for more information
Development
CVS StatsTrack who put in how much and why. And, while you're at it, consider whether you'd like to keep your own cvs build as well. Tables...ooh....
| CVS checkins 2002.10.21 - 2002.10.27 | ||
| Who | Commits | In summary |
| fjfranklin* | 136 | Plugin de-breaking, EncodingManager(moved to UCS-4, corrected character string format, extend translation to iso-8859-15 et al., remove basic UT_Mbtowc, xap/xp to xap/unix, commented out illlogical UTF-8 logic, updated CtoU and UtoC), pspell building yin-yang, Import/Export Sniffers(constructers now require a name, native impex defined, MIME support, begin new mapping method, StarDivision Writer defined) |
| dom | 28 | Repair encoding issue (big issue), WV is cool (new fixes), revisions/hidden text in MSWord (Yes, MSWord users, that means competent people can easily see you "seecrut" text...), Tables work for MSWord97 (plus importing, thanks in part to ArVee), iconv fix (because Jordi says so), Tables (POSIX) window-resizing work, fixed some segv's |
| msevior | 25 | Tables(fixes, speedups, cursor speedup, 4pixel bug on break fixed, POSIX resizing remembered, random tweakery), insert symbol fix & POSIX frame resizing, repaired key navigation for POSIX insert symbol, quick appearance of font preview text |
| phearbear | 12 | Encoding fixes, news statusbar coded (ported from wlach) & cleanups & updates at startup, "acticate new toolbar on qnx," gave icons to languages that have dictionaries (language dialogue), submenus work on right-click menus, |
| wlach | 9 | That whole native statusbar junk I've been talking about for a week: page count now displays (wasn't updated views), removed bogus 'character padding,' some renaming of internal classes for more consistency, removed bogus/deprecated comments, remove deprecated accelerator code |
| phma | 6 | Yiddish translation by Raphael Finkel, Malay update by Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan, Vietnamese update by pclouds |
| jordimas | 4 | Win32 RTF & MSWord97 build fix, Win32graphics enhancements from ArVee |
| biesi | 2 | More StarOffice character attributes, update encodings list |
| rms | 3 | Anthony Fok's zh-CN update, Portuguese update, use pspell conditionally, included missing files, link non-Abiword to Abiword2 (i.e. if older Abi's are not present). |
| jeremyd | 1 | fix bug 4101, Nsis Full install option leaves out Shortcuts |
*phearbear: system-related work is QNX unless stated otherwise. Acticate is his own word.
*jordimas: system-related work is Windows unless stated otherwise.
*fjfranklin: Frank has taken to entertaining me via CVS. This occasionally means not having a FREAKIN' clue what's going on, but neither of us is getting paid for this.
POWs
The concept of a "Project Of the Week" is to single out tasks of major interest that outside developers might be interested in providing assistance to. Until a "best way" of listing POWs come to mind, they shall be listed in a short description. Any user interested is welcome to assist in tackling these POWs. If you know someone who's interested, you can link directly to a POW, in order, they're pow3 (at the top) through pow1 (at the bottom). Reminder to developers, I can't post them if you don't submit them. Additionally, feel free to announce if one of these is finished (in case you don't mention it on the list or in the cvs)
Name: Style and/or Diction Plugins (bug 3281) (do either/or or both!)
Description: build a plugin to allow Abiword to check style and diction
Advertisement: me got no grammar fixer, help mes can't you?
Recommended Outline: Create a plugin for AbiWord that allows the checking of style and diction. The source code for the gnu style and diction tools is available here: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
As a prototype you might be able to hack something using the AbiCmd plugin to wrap the style and diction tools. The AikSaurus (Thesaurus) plugin should also be a helpful guide.
When you get the basics working you could try to get Abiword to display green squiggle underlines to mark errors, or otherwise work on a good user interface.
Comments: A great way to start playing with the AbiSource
System: Any OS will be fine.
Challenge level: ***.. 3 stars out of 5
Current Hero: The mastery of Kung Fu has yet to appear.
Name: Fix Windows printing boogs (bug 3239)
Description: Tackle some or more of the various bugs that cause issues in attempting to print under Windows
Advertisement: ????????????????????????????? (no, that's really the ad!)
Recommended Outline: You must become magical to know how to fix this.
Comments: "The problem is that printing on Windows is broken with several brand of printer drivers (see dependent bugs). It appears that with standard PostScript driver it does not happen. It appears also that version 0.9.6 had less problems than 1.0.1 so we might find out where the regression is bu diffing.
"Please, be sure to read all the bug reports. Even partial fix are accepted.
"Fixes must be done against STABLE tree and possibly ported to HEAD (the later can be done as a second step)."
This comes from Hub
Notice: This may already have been fixed with the libiconv upgrade, stay tuned!
System: Windows
Challenge level: ****. 4 stars out of 5
Current Hero: Not one MoFo yet has had the Huevos for this POW
Name: More Windows Maintainers
Description: Jordi could always use help
Advertisement: Help free people from the oppression of MSWord today!
Recommended Outline: You must become magical to know how to fix this.
Comments: Wouldn't be a bad idea to start with the printing bug...
System: Windows
Challenge level: ****. 4 stars out of 5
Current Hero: Jordi Mas
Bug Update
UPDATE:
Ok, here's what's going on. Bug resolution/confirmation/verification in quite inaccurate. When fetching, it is automatically assumed that the last owner of the bug is the last person to work with it (i.e. close it). Unfortunately, this is not the case. I am now left to wonder how many errors are floating in older AWN's. I also wonder why no-one wrote to say, "I didn't close this bug, someone else must have." In fact, the person who brought this problem to my attention, Matthew Craig, explained that he had been left out for some time. I would have preferred getting told much sooner.
After getting the AWN out, I sit in chat for an hour to see if any of the intrepid hackers have corrections that need to be made. Other than standardization notes from Hub and perceived grammatical issues from Mark, I receive little feedback, except for those who are amused. There's no direct blame, but when you see an inaccurate CVS summary or missing bug mention, I would like to be told. The real kvetch I have is that bugzilla doesn't possess a column for person to last change the bug's status. It may only be the version in use by AbiWord, but this is ultimately a problem, as it will require me to read every single bug coming in.
Inaccuracies are not intentional, unless I have an asterisk (next week or week after at the latest, a footnote). If you see a flaw in my report on your status, or that of something you did or to say that you didn't do, I really do want to be told, as I've explained to a couple of you in the past two weeks. I don't want you not getting credit for month, then finally decide issue n is the snapping point and you get all angry at me. Could you imagine what it would be like if everything went that way? Users would be raiding Mark's house and setting his hair on fire. Additionally, Mark owes the AbiFund US$20. Anyone who finds the mail message that I'm referring to gets many gratuitous mentions next week.
Bug Statistics
I'm leaving the link, guys; you put it up!
Bug Votes
These are the week's Top 20 Bugs in the categories problems and requests for enhancements. Influence next week's results by casting your own votes. Ah, another release, another change of what bugs are on the "Most Wanted" list.
| Top 20 Problems | |||
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 3269 | 120 | --- | Crashing on printing |
| 3171 | 115 | 1.0.x | rtf sets top and bottom margins to 0 |
| 3525 | 90 | --- | font incorrectly printed and spaced |
| 376 | 80 | 2.0 | File assosciate problems for all file types with Win32Slu...... |
| 1406 | 61 | 1.0.x | xhtml documents fail to open: "Bogus html document" msg |
| 1747 | 42 | 2.0 | background colour of text selection is always grey |
| 1194 | 39 | 2.0 | alt+xxxx does not insert special symbols |
| 3808 | 35 | Future | Microsoft Word .doc files may crash Abiword |
| 2362 | 30 | --- | AbiWord only prints across half of page |
| 4046 | 30 | --- | The spellchecker has gone gonzo since upgrading from 1.0....... |
| 4049 | 30 | --- | Crash on open file from floppy or network drive. |
| 4057 | 30 | --- | Thesaurus Shift+F7 keybindings shortcuts consistancey |
| 3778 | 29 | --- | Hanging indent setting ignores units |
| 2868 | 25 | 2.0 | character widths are not calculated correctly for some fonts... |
| 2421 | 20 | 2.0 | TM, Bullet, Euro, Smart Quotes and other symbols originat...... |
| 2715 | 20 | 1.0.x | crash on zoom |
| 3579 | 20 | --- | Save corrupted when text pasted from web page and saved a...... |
| 1394 | 17 | 2.0 | on-screen landscape actually prints portrait in Win95 |
| 2299 | 15 | 1.0.x | Prints incorrect margins with split page. |
| Top 20 Requests For Enhancement | |||
| ID | Votes | Milestone | Summary |
| 1261 | 563 | 2.0 | Need to support footnotes and endnotes |
| 2321 | 286 | Future | [RFE] Maths/Equation Editing, as a plugin maybe? |
| 2183 | 224 | Future | Fully Support OpenOffice's XML file format |
| 2365 | 105 | Future | AbiWord needs 'view codes' |
| 1374 | 96 | Future | [RFE] print odd and/or even pages only (for front & back ... |
| 1950 | 87 | Future | Wish for automatic Table of Contents |
| 2463 | 79 | Future | support embedded objects |
| 1144 | 67 | Future | Improve KWord import/export filters |
| 2565 | 41 | Future | Add true MS Word .doc export capability |
| 1929 | 36 | Future | Hyphenation is missing in Abiword |
| 515 | 35 | Future | columns change should only affect selected text |
| 2186 | 30 | Future | The insert page break setting is lost for custom styles |
| 3003 | 30 | 2.0 | Just "Save File As," not "Save," is available with .doc f... |
| 3657 | 30 | Future | Rapid Document Production, Insert File |
| 2219 | 27 | Future | AUTONUM wanted in [ Insert/Field/Number ] menu |
| 2296 | 25 | Future | doc import: footnotes |
| 2169 | 24 | Future | Line numbering |
| 2360 | 23 | Future | Resizing bitmap images |
| 3668 | 23 | --- | Support for window tabs instead of separate windows |
Resolved Bugs
In the past week, the following Bugs have been verified as fixed. The listed Bugs have all been put in either CLOSED or RESOLVED mode as either FIXED or WORKSFORME, and they have then been verified by the people listed below.
| Bugs Resolved This Week | |
| Bug ID | Description |
| 3802 | Export - XSL-FO - incorrect attribute names for page geom... |
| 3884 | Impossible to create dotless numbers lists |
| 4013 | Put the Table menu in the context menu, when cursor is in... |
| 4101 | Nsis Full install option leaves out Shortcuts |
| 4114 | crash after trying to open |
| 4123 | Bad looking font used in statusbar |
| 4159 | RTF file crashes AbiWord |
| 4199 | inactive menu text are not display depending on LANG |
| This Week's Most Active QA Helpers: | |
| Verified | Name |
| 2 | Sam TH |
| 2 | Dave Null* |
| 2 | Matthew Craig* |
| 1 | Martin Sevior |
*Dave Null:
Dave Null is code for bugs-owner, which can be anyone of five people--
people who are so modest, they don't even take credit for their valiant work ;-)
Flushed Bugs
What you see here are either invalid bug reports or duplicates. So, basically, I'm showing everyone else how doofy you are sometimes. On average*, confirming duplication or non-validity takes four minutes and thirty-five seconds. That's the equivelant of 8LLOC of time for Dom. Any other questions why development isn't as fast as you want?
| Non-Bugs Flushed this Week | |
| Bug ID | Description |
| 4044 | Text save question marks |
| 4109 | will not print highlights or un\overlines |
| 4131 | Abiword (almost) always opens in maximized mode |
| 4160 | crashes when printing...strace included |
| 4166 | Crashing and freezing editing tables |
| 4176 | [Spanish] Error al importar fichero .html |
| 4179 | abiword should save session info |
| 4182 | Save and Save As do the exact same thing |
| 4184 | Crash on opening a previously edited Document |
| 4187 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4188 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4189 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4190 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4191 | All MS WORD documents were converted ro AbiWord immediate... |
| 4192 | Space bar erases letters AHEAD of the cursor |
| 4196 | wath about footnotes |
| 4203 | printing template not possible |
| 4204 | "Save" always behaves like "Save As" for Word (.doc) format |
| 4205 | Kword support |
| 4206 | scroll wheel bug lives on |
| 4210 | Text rendered as squares |
| 4211 | Keyboard editing problems |
| 4212 | Phantom Text appears after loading file with custom tab s... |
| This Week's Active Non-Bug Flushers | |
| Verified | Name |
| 16 | Matthew Craig |
| 1 | Dave Null* |
| 1 | Dom Lachowicz |
| 1 | Johan Björk |
| 1 | Martin Sevior |
| 1 | Sam TH |
*average:
These numbers were pulled directly from a common source for many answers--my ass.
My ass is also the source for weather forecasts, equity predictions and interpretations of the psyche.
*Dave Null:
Dave Null is code for bugs-owner, which can be anyone of five people--
people who are so modest, they don't even take credit for their valiant work ;-)
Caught Bugs
Bug spotters, beware, we're watching you!
| Bugs Found this Week | |
| Bug ID | Description |
| 772 | Don't create temp file in c:\ but in temp directory |
| 1672 | Undo "Underline" "Italic" or "Bold" formating for several... |
| 2715 | crash on zoom |
| 3003 | Just "Save File As," not "Save," is available with .doc f... |
| 3233 | New Language preference menu |
| 3579 | Save corrupted when text pasted from web page and saved a... |
| 3678 | [STABLE]Crash when editing this Word document |
| 3713 | status bar can not display correct strings in different l... |
| 3773 | META: Windows key handler is too low-level |
| 3845 | Scroll wheel reversed when a Windows XP setting selected |
| 3870 | Printing Problem |
| 3873 | Blinking cursor in combo boxes doesn't disappear when unf. |
| 3917 | tabs in rtfs cause strange characters and crash on mouse ... |
| 3926 | abiword crashes when cutting text |
| 3960 | Initial Zoom setting wrong |
| 4018 | show date along with version in about box |
| 4026 | segfault on opening fonts menu |
| 4058 | Overzealous careless uninstall |
| 4063 | Window size/placement (state) restoration when created no... |
| 4071 | Abiword is crashing during importing word document |
| 4080 | Print Layout mode not rewriting screen on lower zoom levels |
| 4093 | Program Terminates on Open |
| 4097 | Save dialog file extension weirdness |
| 4134 | Shouldn't have resize widget on maximized window. |
| 4135 | Status bar doesn't resize |
| 4147 | Abiword crashes on startup |
| 4155 | Mouse-wheel scrolling (on Windows) non-fuctional in docum... |
| 4174 | German (Austria) should be treated identically to German ... |
| 4177 | pspell missing in system location according to configure |
| 4178 | neither package nor source works on freebsd |
| 4180 | Tables in attached RTF document import badly |
| 4181 | AbiWord saves .abw documents as phtml |
| 4183 | Save/reload puts spurious characters in simple file in 1.0.3 |
| 4185 | Page counter goes to a zillion while failing to import a ... |
| 4186 | AW 1.0.3 behviour on RedHat 8.0 |
| 4195 | Strike out cannot be removed |
| 4197 | inability to enter text when installed on Korean Win 98 |
| 4198 | Can't type certain characters with us+ layout |
| 4200 | enhance build instructions for Solaris 8 |
| 4201 | Jagged right margin for justified text |
| 4202 | Simple line entered and saved - wrong display when reloaded |
| 4207 | AbiWord SegFaults Every Time I Close a Window |
| 4208 | bad wPixmap leads to startup crashes |
| 4209 | Problems getting AbiWord to accept my locality |
| 4213 | Produces invalid HTML and XHTML (trouble with li tags) |
To get your name in neon, help QA the Bugs. It's also great experience if you're working your way to a POW! If you want your name rather than your email address to appear or vice versa, drop me a line.
Release HackDown
This is an AbiWord Weekly News original concept: The Release Hackdown. In the table below, you can watch what bugs are being fixed in preparation for the very next release. Check the key at the bottom to understand formatting.
No pressure, guys, I'm sure only 2000 or so people will be watching to see what you do weekly. That breaks down to about 285 people daily and 12 people hourly, so, it's like being peeked at once every five minutes, literally. "Isn't that veird!?"
| HackDown to 1.0.4 | |
| Bug ID | Description |
| 2223 | cannot open psiWord files (re-opened) |
| 3008 | Cursor not initially in hyperlink dialog |
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Smart Insert Hyperlink, check to see if selected text is a hyperlink |
| 3171 | rtf sets top and bottom margins to 0 (re-opened) |
| 3239 | [META] Windows printing bugs |
| 3453 | Crashes repeatably while attempting to edit header |
| 3488 | Weird crash when editing |
| 3489 | Crash when deregistering plugins |
| 3561 | Crash on embedded AbiWord in Evolution |
| 3625 | Multi Substitution waste memory |
| 3632 | editing the numbering style of a roman numeral list hangs/crashes |
| 3645 | Page setup has a problem with margins in millimeters |
| 3678 | [STABLE]Crash when editing this Word document |
| 3686 | XAbiword version for bundle not properly set. |
| 3697 | [crash] blank abiword document viewed as text (View Source) |
| 3755 | AbiWord crashes during import of this MS Word document |
| 3766 | Dvorak Keyboard |
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Loading World.abw crashes AbiWord" |
| 3858 | export wrong content when choosing export to "Simplified Chinese GB_2312-80" encoded text |
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Too Many Curly Brackets in Exported LaTeX (duplicate) |
| 4046 | The spellchecker has gone gonzo since upgrading from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 |
| 4068 | Crash when mouse leaves selected header |
| 4070 | [META] crash on load bugs |
| 4093 | Program Terminates on Open |
| 4097 | Save dialog file extension weirdness |
| 4125 | .doc file does not import correctly (BiDi issues). |
| 4183 | Save/reload puts spurious characters in simple file in 1.0.3 |
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Phantom Text appears after loading file with custom tab settings |
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| removed from list: | 3324 and 4068 |
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*Strike-out bug numbers and greyed text are resolved. *Bold bug numbers and bold text are assigned. *Italicized bug numbers and italicized text are unconfirmed. *Removed bugs are a sign you're being screwed. |
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Ah, being the editor...let's talk about what's been going on. Added and suddenly found a duplicate, 4212 is the only action going on this week....
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