“This week saw more significant development, with 12
developers contributing 27 different patches to the tree.
Sadly, there were no new developers this week.”
“The most significant series of patches this week came from Bill
Carpenter, who continued to make significant progress towards Smart
Quote support in AbiWord. This week, his work included fixing a few
minor problems in his remapGlyph code, and adding a Smart Quotes
preference item. This preference item was then ported to both Win32
and QNX by Tom and Thomas. For his work this week, Bill wins the
Patch Prize, and 299 dollars from Sourcegear.”
“Another significant feature added this week was automatic
backup on crashes in the Unix build, thanks to Sam. Now, if AbiWord
ever crashes, it will back up your data before dying. Bruce and
Matthew contributed ideas for improving the code, which were
quickly incorporated. Hopefully this will lead both to regular
backup possibilites, and crash handling on our other
platforms.”