Re: 2.4 release cycle

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 21:27 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> This is to remind everyone that we agreed a hard feature freeze for
> April 15, so there really should not be any new features until the 2.4
> release.
>
> If we are to release 2.4 by the end of June, we need to start releasing
> pre-releases fairly soon so that we have enought feedback to iron out
> the problems. I suggest that we have a first pre-release by the end of
> the month, and we will take it from there (we should probably aim for a
> fortnightly releases, if that is workable). We should also start
> prioritizing bugs for 2.4 more consciously (and paying attention to the
> priorities).
>
> There will be some mismatch between the 2.4 aspirations and the reality,
> but there will be 2.6, etc. (For my part, both the Pango graphics and
> the Merge documents will not be ready for the release due to some
> unforeseen committments on my part, although I will continue working on
> the Pango time permitting.
>

OK Tomas, as agreed I'll stop working on new features. I'll #if DEBUG
the two remaining table features I was going to implement (sort
cols/rows and repeating headings).

I'll concentrate on bug fixes from now on.

If we do this I think we can get a good release by end of June.

However....

There are two really big new features in AbiWord-2.4 that unix-only
right now.

These are English Grammar checking and Maths support.

Luca is not yet at the point where he wants to do a new GtkMathView
release.

So Windows and OSX developers please concentrate on building linkgrammar
for your platforms. Once Luca does a new GtkMathView release Windows and
OSX developers should get that built for their platforms too. The build
of GtkMathView we need for AbiWord should only depend on libxml2.

I've also been thinking of doing a 2.3.0 release. I think we can get a
pretty good build in a couple of weeks. I use CVS HEAD for my day to day
needs and it basically works already. There are a lot of TABLE at the
beginning of section bugs that need to be fixed though.

Cheers

Martin

> Tomas
>
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Received on Wed Apr 20 01:44:18 2005