“Welcome to issue 42 of the AbiWord Weekly News.
This week the developer mailing list has been dominated by the
discussions of what should be included in the AbiWord 1.0 release.
It is still undecided, but there is a trend towards a 1.0 release
within the next four months, without support for proper tables. See
the developer ML archive for all the discussions which spans
several threads.This week we’ve seen at least three very interesting checkins:
Martin added support for LaTeX style tables (simple outlining of
your text) which is the closest we’re likely to get for table
support this side of 1.0. Dom checked in a first version of an
AbiWord GTK widget, and also did some work on a module plugin
architecture.Unfortunately, this week also left us with a severely trashed
BugZilla database, losing several days worth of input. The cause of
this is likely to do with the disks filling up on the server, but
it’s still unclear why BugZilla appears to keep losing data. We’re
still looking into this, and have started doing hourly backups of
the database. Note that the bug data in this week’s issue is also
affected by this crash – and that any votes you’ve cast have been
lost.Finally, I got quite a few mails after the previous issue of
AbiWord Weekly News, not only from all the happy campers (trust me,
there were quite a few), but also from people following the AbiWord
development who thought I’d missed a few interesting subjects. For
this reason, I’ve taken up sending out an early copy of the WN to a
few people so they can help me fill in the blanks. With some luck
that should make for an even better newsletter. Thanks!”In this issue:
- CVS Stats
- Project of the Week
- Bug Update
- On the Mailing List