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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lance,

I'll add this to the agenda for the QA meeting on 15th August @ 14:00 UTC.

As you correctly state, time is running out.

Regards,

Phill.

On 14 August 2012 21:04, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm just checking a bunch of stuff and preparing for Ubuntu and Xubuntu
> 12.04.1 testing next week. I know that doesn't involve Lubuntu but I have a
> few pet bugs that I hope to address so I updated my Lubuntu Quantal on two
> machines and checked out abiword very closely.
>
> On both machines I experience the problems explained in comment #27 of
> this bug report:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1019621
>
> Scrolling doesn't work properly, sometimes the screen flashes, trying to
> read some old abiword docs results in large gray or black "boxes" where
> there should just be blank page. Basically abiword is a total mess :^(
>
> Unless  msevior has changed his mind I'd remind everyone that he said, "As
> maintainer of abiword I urge you to switch to abiword-2.8.6. Debian testing
> has moved on to 2.9.3 which is a considerable improvement of 2.9.2 but it
> still contains many bugs."
>
> So what should we do? I think our time to decide is very limited with a
> feature freeze coming on August 23rd. I doubt we could change versions of
> abiword after that :^(
>
> Releasing a buggy application twice in a row is kind of a bad
> advertisement regarding stability so let's please discuss this.
>
> Lance
>
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