On 07/07/2012 12:03 AM, Simon Steinbeiß wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:43:52 +0300
> Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> When testing the 12.04, no regressions were reported really, so there
>> shouldn't be anything too critical. Bugs exists anyway though, so there
>> will be some...
>>
>> Pasi
> Personally I consider it really bad that we shipped a (random) snapshot of 
> Abiword. (I know it wasn't decidedly the fault of the Xubuntu team, but we 
> should've maybe started shouting earlier and louder.) The visual glitches 
> that couldn't be sorted (LP: #948128) are quite obvious and in my opinion 
> also critical, because they suggest that the software isn't reliable if it 
> looks so bad.

While I agree that these visual bugs shouldn't have passed through, I'm
not sure if they are really critical – and even if they were considered
such, I don't see how that would create a "broken" Abiword.

> I think we should strive to ship a more solid version in 12.10, since 3.0 
> most likely won't be released in time (and anyway, it doesn't mean bugs like 
> above are fixed!), I'd suggest going back to the stable 2.8 version. Lionel 
> tested that recently and it seems to work without many changes (mostly 
> dropping a lib).

Sounds like a plan.

>
>  - Simon

Cheers,
Pasi

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