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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice 1.3.6?
From:       Inge Wallin <inge () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2005-02-28 20:43:44
Message-ID: 200502282143.46421.inge () lysator ! liu ! se
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On Monday 28 February 2005 18.29, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2005 13:55, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > Well, basically the question is: will there be one?
> >
> > I have done a lot of fixes for KChart in HEAD that don't involve any
> > string changes.  I could easily backport them to Koffice 1.3, but if the
> > 1.3 line is discontinued, I don't see any use in it.
>
> Well the question bounces the other way round: do you think we should make
> a 1.3.6 to ship those fixes out, or can it wait for 1.4?

It can probably wait for 1.4 *if* that release comes when it was planned, i.e. 
march 2005. In my opinion, KChart was almost unusable, but is now a pretty 
decent little charting application.  Of course, it can still use some 
polishing, but it has definitely transformed into a usable state.

> The problem is that I don't know how much time we need for OASIS support
> to be complete in order to switch to it as native file format, and only
> then releasing.... Maybe a safer approach would be to ship 1.4 with OASIS
> as an optional import/export option (like it is now), but that goes a bit
> against what we promised for 1.4.

I would like that a lot.

OASIS support will take a lot of time to get right.  I think that KOffice 1.3 
has a lot of issues that are fixed in HEAD, and these issues are keeping the 
users from liking KOffice. We need to keep the momentum going, to cite 
Boudewijn Rempt.  I think that we will lose a lot of mindshare and users if 
Open Office comes out with new releases all the time and we get stuck.People 
will start to think of KOffice as a dead project.

Thus, I think that we should start planning for a release of version 1.4 
*soon* with OASIS support as an option.  Then we can  release the complete 
OASIS based Koffice as 2.0 later.  In my opinion, OASIS is such a big 
milestone that I think that it actually warrants a 2.0 stamp, and we need to 
come out with a new version promply.

 -Inge

-- 
Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:               |
                          |      "After three days without programming,     |
inge@lysator.liu.se       |       life becomes meaningless."                |
                          | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.         |
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