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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Release schedule for KOffice 1.3
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-01-12 16:33:11
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The problem is that the main application (KWord, KPresenter, KSpread) need 
early feedback, especially on font problems. It does not mean that everything 
needs to be ready.

And if KOffice is in rather bad state at that time, we can always call it 
KOffice 1.3. Alpha 1. ;-)

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Sunday 12 January 2003 16:43, Lucijan Busch wrote:
> 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 version, features, maintainers etc (most stuff is _really_ outdated!!!)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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