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List:       abiword-user
Subject:    Re: Style: Page-break-before fails.
From:       "sum1_lists () yahoo ! com" <sum1_lists () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2006-04-17 17:15:38
Message-ID: 4443CD3A.4030209 () yahoo ! com
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James White wrote:
> Wow.  This sounds like a frightening sign of the state of the dev team
> (not an accusation: as a past team-lead, I just recognize this for what
> it is).
> 
> I truly want to see the Gnome-Office succeed.  It is a critical part of
> the maturation process of both Gnome and of Linux in general.
> 
> Can anyone comment on the stability of the Abiword dev team?  Are they a
> cohesive/funded group?  Or is it a single desperate coder doing his
> damnedest to keep this excellent project alive?

There's no funding; AbiWord is a project run completely by volunteers in 
their free time.  Many of the core developers have been around for at 
least five years, but they consist of a small few (around 5, I would 
say).  Although they represent a sense of continuity, contributors have 
come and gone over the years and, like with most hobbies, interest tends 
to wax and wane on an individual level.

> 
> Or in other words - what's the problem?  What do we have to do to give
> the devs the tools that they require to produce - at the very least -
> unit testing?

A unit testing framework exists, but it really hasn't been used widely 
at all.  Honestly, the best way to get things done is to provide patches 
or donate your time by helping to debug a problem, filing clear bug 
reports, etc., since there are very few people working on AbiWord at any 
given moment.  [I'm sending this email to the user list in case anyone 
else would like to add to this.]

> 
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 01:03 -0400, sum1_lists@yahoo.com wrote:
>> James White wrote:
>>>> This is Bug 3670 (http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3670).
>>> Seriously?  The feature of configuring styles has never worked?
>> Looking at the date on the report, it likely never worked correctly.
>>
>>> Is there a patch in the works - or has it been fixed in the new version
>>> of Abiword?
>>>
>> I don't think anyone is working on it and it's still a problem with the 
>> latest versions.
>>
>>
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