From koffice-devel  Sun Jan 12 15:43:19 2003
From: Lucijan Busch <lucijan () gmx ! at>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:43:19 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Release schedule for KOffice 1.3
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11th of april isn't that a bit early for beta 1?
well anyway one final thing, pleas write Kexi and not KExi...

thank you
lucijan

On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:08, Lucijan Busch wrote:
> On Sunday 12 January 2003 13:29, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> hello
>
> > Hello dear KOffice developers,
> > another year went by, and I feel like it's about time for thinking about
> > another major KOffice release ;)
>
> uhm, what does thinking mean? ;)
>
> > I just posted a first and very preliminary schedule for the upcoming
> > version of KOffice (1.3) which is available at, as usually, at
> > http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/koffice-1.3-release-plan.ht
> >ml
>
> it isn't synced by now, are there already any dates on it, if yes, when do
> you plan the feature-freeze?
>
> > I'd like to ask the specific maintainers to go through this list and
> > review mainly these points:
> > - add new features for your app when you think they're are worth
> > mentioning and if you are sure this will indeed appear in the final
> > version - cry out if the schedule is too tight, we have still enough time
> > to change it
>
> i will cry after i see the dates ;)
>
> > :-)
> >
> > - please add entries for new/improved filters (Nicholas?)
> > - please take some time and update the webpage for your application; take
> > some great screenshots, update the information about current version,
> > features, maintainers etc (most stuff is _really_ outdated!!!)
> >
> > What could be the major goals of this version[1]?
> > - get more and better looking templates (this is a must IMHO)
> > - new icons? (I've heard the artists are making some new crystal icons
> > exclusively for KOffice)
> > - incorporate/finish Krita/Karbon, make sure they work consistently with
> > the rest of apps (drag'n'drop, copy&paste, etc.)
> > - find a _real_ maintainer for Kivio
> >
> > Since I have little idea about the graphic apps we have, I'd appreciate
> > some status info about the current state of Krita, Karbon and Kontour
> > (and also KExi). If an app lacks an active maintainer and is
> > unfinished/broken, it will get moved to kdenonbeta (seems to be the case
> > for Kontour or KoSoap).
>
> kexi... it isn't in a real usible state by now but depends on how much time
> we have, we could get it for the first release. we only spent time cleaning
> the old source and not implementing/finishing features.
> in my case a working kexi should at least have:
> 1. working cql driver & cql-embedding
> (cql == the native sql-engine shipped with kexi)
> 2. working queries
> 3. working tablealtering / table creating
> 4. formbindings (eventually QSA bindings)
> 5. and i don't know how the progress is with jowenn's report designer
>
> if i look at my list i see that most things (except QSA-bindings) are
> already existing but not fully usible.
> point 1 should be done quite fast. point 2 too. point 3 also (at least the
> most-needed things, saving and SQL=>GUI-parsing has to be implemented)
> i'm working hard on point 4 (saving will be some work since we want it
> QUI-compatible), hm... QSA i don't know will be implemented after all other
> points are done.
> i can ask joseph for the 5th point
>
> > Last but not least, I'd like to thank David Faure for having been a
> > wonderful maintainer of the past few KOffice versions. I hope I'll manage
> > to pull some tasks off his back so he can concentrate on more interesting
> > (and
> > important[2]) things, thanks David!
>
> thank you :)
>
> > Thanks for your attention, keep the mails coming :)
> >
> > [1] Subject for discussion
> > [2] Like hyphenation; hint, hint :-)
>
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