Re: Work to release Abiword 3.0

I would love to get feedback on this request so that if improvements
are needed they can be made.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks very much for this. I agree with merging the  gsocdocx2012
> branch. Is there any chance we can also get the touch patches from the
> sugar guys into 3.0?
>
> These are really cool and will help Write continue to be the Word
> Processor of choice for children around the world.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
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> Dear AbiWord devs,
>
> I'd like to make a special appeal from the Sugar Labs downstream for
> your attention.
>
> GTK3/introspection and touch UI are key goals in the current Sugar
> development cycle and AbiWord's little brother (the Sugar Write
> activity) is one of the centerpiece's of the educational tools
> provided with Sugar.
>
> Your assistance with reviewing, (correcting if necessary) and
> committing these two patches would be most appreciated.
>
> Finish gobject introspection support
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13420
>
> Implement selection handles for touchscreen devices
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13410
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> cjl
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>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Simon Larochelle
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to start a discussion on the work needed to complete
>> Abiword version 3.0. Here is my list,
>>
>>
>> 1) Merge Serhat's gsocdocx2012 branch
>>
>>
>> 2) I18n: We should have one last round of translation updates before
>> the release. Note that one string was modified since release 2.9.4
>> (revision 32521).
>>
>>
>> 3) Bugs:
>>
>> a) build issue: We encountered one problem when we were preparing the
>> source code tarball for version 2.9.4. In the po directory, the
>> CLEANFILE and the EXTRA_DIST variables (Makefile.am) were the same so
>> "make clean" would remove the .string files  and it would be
>> impossible to remake them since the .po files were not included in the
>> tarball (since EXTRA_DIST was set to the .string files). The quick and
>> dirty solution was to remove CLEANFILE (revision 31824). Is there
>> anybody with a good understanding of automake who would be willing to
>> take a look at this issue?
>>
>>
>> b) General code: There does not seem to be any critical bugs. Looking
>> at bug 13260 (the meta-bug for release 3.0), there are four bugs still
>> opened
>> bug 13208, 13225, 13226 and 13251, none of which should hold the release.
>>
>> Bug 13208: frames work much better now than in version 2.8.6. Solving
>> the remaining bugs will require some important modifications of the
>> fb_ColumnBreaker code. This should wait after release 3.0.
>> Bug 13225: Is there anybody who has worked on automatically fixing
>> files with missing xml tags?
>> Bug 13226: Hub, can we close this bug report?
>> Bug 13251: There are no files included in the bug report. Can we close this bug?
>>
>>
>> c) GTK: No critical bugs.
>> Bug 13238: Not a problem on Ubuntu
>> Bug 13263: The dialog seems to work. Also this is not a regression
>> Bugs 13359 & 13406: limited to Ubuntu?
>> Bug 13444: Using the deprecated code solves the problem.
>>
>>
>> d) Windows: There are a few things that should be fixed before the
>> release (I do not have Windows. So this list is based solely on bug
>> reports and I cannot fix these bugs).
>>
>> Bug 13030: We need to include a newer version of libgsf.
>> Bug 13389: Spell checker. According to Per Larsson, we need to provide
>> a version of Enchant compiled with MSVC. Also there are some issues
>> with the hunspell dictionaries.
>> Bugs 13423 and 13425: There might be some font problems.
>> MathView plugin: The plugin could not be included in release 2.9.4.
>>
>> Other bugs (include in the meta-bug 13260)
>> Bug 12969: We do not have the resources to support Win2000
>> Bug 13175: epub exporter; should not hold the release
>>
>>
>> e) Mac: I have no idea what is the status of the Mac build.
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon