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AbiWord Weekly News #41, (2001, week 17, released 2001.04.27)Welcome to the reinstated AbiWord Weekly News. The newsletter has been extended with a few extra features, which should hopefully make it an even more interesting reading than the previous incarnations. In particular, we will focus more on bug status since the average user is unlikely to be checking the bug database on a regular basis. This week the release of AbiWord 0.7.14 was finally announced after having been simmering for about a month. We all wish for a quicker release next time. We have also started taking semi-nominations for bugs people would like to see given high priority for the 0.9.x and 1.0 releases. It's also worth mentioning the work Martin has been doing in the past weeks on the styles dialog. Pretty nifty stuff which we're sure will make the feature matrix look even better. Finally, we're doing rather good on sourceforge's download top 10 - we're number 6, averaging something like a couple of thousand downloads a day. In this issue: Editor(s) of this issue: Jesper Skov CVS Stats
Patch of the week goes to Martin's styles dialog work. As Sam points out, this is probably the last real feature to go into the tree before we start 0.9 development (where the tree will be closed for new features). Project Of the WeekPOW (Project Of the Week) and the new uPOW (User Project Of the Week) is a cynical attempt at atracting new developers and entice help from users by lowering the bar of entry to doing something constructive for AbiWord. A POW will describe a goal and often outline how to get there. Presently we have a few unclaimed POWs. Please see the POW status page for more details.
Bug UpdateHere's the AbiWord bug update for the last week. If you can spare some time, please help us triage the bugs - you don't need to be able to program to do this. Bug CountsThese are the bug counts for the past 4 weeks: Date: Submitted: QA: Open: ---------------------------------------------------- 2001.04.06 92 ( +16%) 128 ( +7%) 182 ( -3%) 2001.04.13 17 ( -81%) 152 ( +18%) 240 ( +31%) 2001.04.20 11 ( -35%) 57 ( -62%) 232 ( -3%) 2001.04.27 23 (+109%) 58 ( +1%) 228 ( -1%) Bug VotesAs a user of AbiWord, you are able to vote on bugs you'd like to see closed. The process is quite simple:
The current top 10 is:
Target MilestonesWe have just started nominating bugs for the next two big releases. You (as a user or developer) can have your say on which bugs to nominate by casting your vote on bugs as described above. The current milestone distribution is as follows:
Closed BugsIn the past week, the following 27 bugs have been closed (i.e., closed and verified fixed): 542, 452, 565, 612, 833, 877, 887, 905, 909, 934, 978, 1097, 1199, 1209, 1282, 1298, 1299, 1301, 1316, 1337, 1341, 1348, 1353, 1358, 1362, 1363, and 1369.On the Mailing ListTraffic on the developer mailing list has picked up quite a bit over the last months. We're now at about 400-450 postings a week. This week, interesting topics included:
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