while the first part stated your case, the second felt a little below the belt...
I don't know the workload of OLPC but assuming infinite resources is probably unwise. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Chris Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2.9.x are development releases so they're not yet in an upstream fedora >> release. We use the version that ships in Fedora so at the moment its not >> much use. > > Peter, > > I guess that is one way to see it, but there are other perspectives. > > As 2.9.x represents the first development release of what will become 3.0, > now is the ideal time to begin looking at it as AbiWord is OLPC's word > processor of choice on the GNOME boot side and word processing is an > important activity to deployments. Better to engage early and have the > opportunity to shape the direction of further development than to show up > late to the party. > > Some of the key features now present in the 2.9.x series represent the > culmination of work that was done collaboratively between OLPC and AbiWord > to develop the Write activity a few years ago. These features include > support for collaboration via Telepathy (Jabber/XMPP), so it's release an > achievement in which OLPC can share some pride with it's friends from > Collabora who contributed to making this possible. Improved support for RTL > languages like Arabic and Hebrew made substantial gains through work on > Write and is a feature of importance to some of OLPC's deployments. The > experiemental EPUB authoring plug-in has the potential to greatly facility > sharable content creation on the XO. > > Or I suppose you could ignore it until 3.0 ships and then figure this stuff > out in a rush and be too late to have any influence or further leverage the > historical ties between OLPC and AbiWord that have so far proven remarkably > beneficial to both communities, YMMV. > > cjl > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
