José Matos wrote:
1.5 Features:
- Unicode / new encodings.
- Multiple windows.
- Change tracking
- Sessions
- What am I missing more?
- Outlook?
- Improved dialogs (some 1.4/qt3 dialogs are a PITA)?
How much time do the
respective owners expect to need to have the new features in such a state
that they can be presented to users without having them screaming away?
For change tracking, it will take about two weeks for basic operations
and another two weeks for more complicated stuff (e.g. end-of-par
handling). This is a conservative guess and I assume that I will be the
only one working on CT.
On the other hand
we need a quick release, or else all the flurry in the mailing list was
useless, so I suggest a deadline for the alpha release of three weeks. That
is Monday, 13 November 2006.
Alpha (not beta) in three weeks sounds good.
What about all thoses bugzilla entries? We should be able to drastically
reduce the number of entries.
A: I am not Denmark but I will answer this. The role to follow here is the
stable series. Not all fixes are welcome at all times, special at the last
day or minute. :-)
Please be a bit more generous than we were for 1.4.0. When 1.4.0 was
released (broken, slow, ...) there was a stack of about 50 patches. This
should never happen again!
Textual changes (translator work) should be possible even at a very late
stage.
Michael
PS: I like your email! Good points and a clear vision!
