--- Andrzej Pruszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 6. May 2002 16:50, Alan Horkan wrote: > > Perhaps the press release could include an > accurate description of what > > abiword does do (and a small note that it does not > do tables). > > Not small. It doesn't change anything at all. Should > be noted which version > will support tables.
I'm fully in favour of a major anouncement. We have really no idea how far off 1.2 might be - especially if we have to improve Pango to get our new rendering working. I thought the whole point of the 1.0 release was to get a lot of attention, testers, and hopeuflly developers. Really what's the point of the 1.0 release if we're going to keep it quiet. I think we should publicize it but *prominently* state that *it still doesn't do tables* - we should make that blindingly clear. We should also state all of our major improvements, I think our l10n and i18n are getting extremely impressive. We could really do with a lot more new non-English users. We could really do with more Windows developers, Mac developers, non-Englophone developers and users. Without making a fuss until an unknown point in the future, how are we going to attract these people? Let's do it now. Andrew Dunbar. > > I agree that at this point it might be unwise to > hit mainstream news > > sources. > > > > did Aiken ever manage to make anything of his > Abiword on a CD idea? > > I would love to be able to burn a handful of cheap > CDs and give them out. > > > > Also if you like i can take the release binary and > compress it with UPX > > for those who want to try and cram abiword on a > floppy disk. > > > > Sincerely > > Alan > > > > On 6 May 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > > Date: 06 May 2002 15:42:54 +0200 > > > From: Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: AbiWord Dev List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: Maybe we shouldn't spam the world > with the 1.0 release > > > announcement? > > > > > > On lun, 2002-05-06 at 14:48, Jesper Skov wrote: > > > > There's some truth to be found in Joel's text > here: > > > > > > > > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PickingShipDate.html > > > > > > > > 80% of those reading the announcement with > download AbiWord, find that > > > > it doesn't have tables, and will never ever > touch it again. > > > > > > > > I'm sure enough people, who are not judging a > product by features they > > > > don't use anyway, will find and start using > AbiWord 1.0, even without > > > > announcing it all over the place. > > > > > > I confirm that. I think I should agree with > Jskov. Wait for 1.2 with > > > Table and other stuff to announce our product to > the world. > > > > > > Announcing 1.0.1 on SF, freshmeat and other > free-software oriented is > > > fine. Upload them to major software archives > (even for Windows) is. > > > > > > > > > Hub ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
