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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice 1.3.6?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-02 13:48:55
Message-ID: 200503021448.55687.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:18, Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2005 21.43, Inge Wallin wrote:
> > On Monday 28 February 2005 18.29, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I am a bit surprised that there were no reactions to this other than Raphaels 
> piece.

Sorry, I didn't know I was under time pressure to reply...

Yes, this sounds good, I'm OK with a 1.4 with OASIS still as import/export.

I need to find time to publish a schedule then

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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