Documentation Update

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:38:05 -0600 (CST)

Here is the diff file for the documentation update. Can someone commit this? The search page works now, I included the wrong file in the zip. Also, here's an updated roadmap. I wasn't sure where a few bits shoul;d go so if you have any suggestions or features that were left out, please email me.
 
Ash

docupdate.diff

Title: AbiWord Roadmap

AbiWord Roadmap

  • Last updated: 13 Nov 2000, the current tarball is 0.7.12
  • Please see the explanatory notes at the bottom of this list.
0.9/1.0 1.1/1.2 Unknown Future

We'll consider AbiWord to be at version 0.9 when it has [substantially] all of the features we want in our "1.0" release. Accordingly, the list below represents our current plan for the "1.0" feature set. This list is still subject to a certain amount of change.

Note that our target feature set for version 1.0 is very basic. "Version 1.0 is the beginning, not the end."

After sufficient bug fixing on the 0.9 code base, we'll call it 1.0.0 and consider it to be a maintenance tree. When we're ready to start adding post-1.0 features, we'll fork a new development tree for the 1.1/1.2 series releases.

User feedback from the 1.0 release will be used to determine priorities for the 1.2 release. The following list is extremely tentative right now.

We're not quite sure where these features go yet.
  • Features
  • Finish headers and footers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  • DLOG: File/Page Setup (aka Format/Section) (with page margins, size, orientation)
  • DLOG: Borders and Shading
  • DLOG: Styles
  • DLOG: Insert/Page Numbers
  • Design and implement a consistent scheme for moving documents between systems (including between differing platforms) and preserving as much of the font information as possible.
  • View/Status Bar
  • Context menu for images
  • Context cursors for image
  • DLOG: goto
  • switch to UTF-8 encoding for internal piece table storage ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
  • Cleanup mapping of Unicode encodings to font encodings, focusing on: bullets, dashes, fancy quotation marks, symbols, dingbats ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  • tables
  • import/export WordPerfect ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
  • image resize. Involves the addition of "handles" on the corners and edges of the image, when it's selected for resize. Requires mouse interaction and drag code. This should be possible to do entirely in XP code.
  • vertical keeps (partially done, in fb_ColumnBreaker.cpp)
  • horizontal keeps
  • Qt port, anyone? :-)
  • MacOS port, anyone? John Brewer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has checked in a start on this.
  • Inline marks for bookmarks, TOC, index, etc. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  • Word 97 export
  • autosave
  • Experiment with cons as a replacement for our build system. Would this get us faster, more accurate builds on more platforms?
  • floats
  • improvements to RTF importer
  • Tip of the Day
  • print preview (zoom works as a nice substitute)
  • normal view
  • drop caps
  • paragraph borders and shading
  • footnotes
  • outline mode
  • decimal-aligned tabs
  • Table of contents
  • macros and scripting
  • Multilingual document support for Hebrew, Arabic
  • Background color
  • Threads

Notes

  • This roadmap changes a lot. More specifically, the status and plan for the project changes a lot, and this roadmap struggles to keep up.
  • Version numbers use a scheme similar to the Linux kernel: Major.Minor.Patch -- The Major version number indicates the overall version of the app, with differences distinguishing very substantial levels of features. The Minor version number indicates an overall level of features within that Major version. Odd numbered Minor versions are development releases which are not in maintenance. A release with an even numbered Minor version indicates a release which is believed to be stable and which will be maintained even as development of the next version proceeds in a separate source code tree.
  • There will not be a 0.8.0 release.
  • This is, in some sense, a To-Do list. However, since it does not include a complete listing of bugs, it should not be regarded as the only listing of work that needs to be done. The difference between a bug and a missing feature can be subtle, at times. We mention a specific bug here under certain circumstances, such as when we know that we'll want it to be fixed for a certain release. In general, you should check our bug database for additional information. The mention of specific bugs in association with specific releases is not intended to imply that those are the only bugs which will get fixed for that release.
  • In general, this list contains only work which is not yet done. Once it's done, we remove it from this list. If it's partially done, we'll remove it and replace it with a reminder of the part that's not done yet. If you want a summary of what has already been done, we'd suggest our Bonsai or archives of the mailing list.
  • If you see an email address specified in parenthesis after any item, that's the person we believe is working on it, or who has mentioned an intent to do so. If there's no email address there, we probably don't know who's doing it. Contributors welcome, AbiWord is a Bazaar.
  • Please notify the mailing list if you see anything on this list which is inaccurate or out-of-date.
  • If you want to work on something, please mention your intent to do so on the mailing list. This will allow us to avoid clashes and keep this roadmap up to date. Also, most of the features mentioned below have had at least some discussion, so there is a history of assumptions about how each feature should work. We don't have a full, written spec for the behavior of everything, so if you want to uncover those assumptions, you'll have to ask. :-)
  • The project mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED].

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