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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice 1.3.6?
From:       Raphael Langerhorst <raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at>
Date:       2005-03-01 15:56:54
Message-ID: 200503011656.54360.raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at
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On Monday 28 February 2005 21:43, Inge Wallin wrote:
> 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

... hmm... full ACK here with Inge,

Raphael
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