Hi Folks,
In order to get a 1.0 release out sometime we have to decide to
make a feature freeze at some point in time. This is a bit tricky for an
open source project like ours. We have no particular deadline that is
vital to be met. One deadline I would personally like to meet is to have
stable 1.0 release for the GNOME 2.0 platform. GNOME 2.0 requires at least
Gtk 2.0. The unix hackers are very keen to port abiword to Gtk 2.0. This
will be non-trivial in many ways and will require some time.
As Tomas has said GTK 2.0 has been "Just about ready" for release for at
least 1 year. That being the case I propose that as soon as Gtk 2.0 is
released, abiword should go into feature freeze.
>From then on all new feature to the abiword 1.0 code base should be
plugins. That way we can either include them or leave them out for the
actual 1.0 release and more features can be added post 1.0 by means of
plugins.
This way we can have our cake and eat it too :-)
Cheers
Martin
