“Welcome to this updated issue 116 of the AbiWord Weekly
News.“The AWN loses and gains this week as a major issue was brought
to my attention. TEMPORARILY lost are the Flushed bugs and QA
helpers. Experimenting with Flushed to get the correct developer
has left it temporarily disabled. You see, the problem is that it
is REMARKABLY difficult to accurately uncover who made the last
state change to a bug without actually reading the long list. This
is bad, and I consider it a flaw in bugzilla. More importantly, had
the AWN a bug report, this would be marked critical. This week’s
gain was the nifty Patch Prize and its winner. I’ve decided not to
state the winner until that section, but congratulations to
you.“As for AbiLand, if HEAD could talk, it would sing, as it
currently possesses the ability to work with tables…in MS Word
format. This was done, of course, as needed function by the
contributor, ArVee. ArVee’s next biggest project is importing Excel
files as document objects. We Rock…”
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