Hi folks, I'm just writing you all to let you know that bugzilla is rapidly approaching 1,000 bugs. We're up to 965, which is a varitable mountain of bugs. It would probably take a "Martin" man year or better to close them all.
I'd appreciate it if people would spend a little time getting familiar with some of the bugs in bugzilla. A lot of bugs need to be triaged. Even more need some resolution. "What can I do to help?" you ask. Well, there are a few things: 1) Help triage bugs. Make sure the platform is correct, milestone is correct, bugs have enough information to reproduce and possibly even fix, etc... Matthew Craig, Hakon, MG, and others have done a great job with this so far, but I'm sure that they could use some help. 2) Fix bugs or parts of bugs 3) File new bugs as they arise 4) Confirm/deny that bugs have actually been fixed, and CLOSE/REOPEN as necessary. Now, not all bugs are "true" bugs - a lot of stuff in bugzilla are RFEs. "But I want to work on my favorite feature XYZ and not fix bugs" you say. Odds are XYZ is in bugzilla already. If not, put it in bugzilla so it gets triaged and noticed by others. Then start working on it. The feature set for 2.0 is not yet frozen, but if bugzilla doesn't show improvement in the near-ish future, it might soon become so. So for now, please make sure your RFE gets filed and then start working on it. I don't expect all or even the majority of these bugs and RFEs to be closed before 2.0 is released. But it would be nice if as many as possible got addressed. Not many people will be upset if we don't have "Open EBook XML" or "US Congress DTD" support. A lot of people will be if Insert->Endnote crashes systematically. As always, work on what you might find interesting. There's something in bugzilla for everyone's taste, and more than enough to whet your appetites. AbiWord 2.0 should have a lot of "spit and polish." Let's make it shine. Cheers, Dom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
