From koffice-devel  Sun Jan 12 17:41:35 2003
From: Lucijan Busch <lucijan () gmx ! at>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:41:35 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Release schedule for KOffice 1.3
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On Sunday 12 January 2003 17:33, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> 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. ;-)
well alpha would sound better for me, but ther won't be that much testers :)

>
> 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-pla
> > > >n. 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 outdated!!!)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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