The state of Calligra Words (a call for testing)

[Elvis Stansvik]

Hi,

2011/5/4 Sebastian Sauer <mail at dipe.org>:
> When we merged end of last week the textlayout-branch to master things where
> in a pretty bad state. I was surprised how much problems did show up within
> last days. I was even more surprised to see how fast they got fixed. Special
> thanks here goes to Casper and Thorsten.

Yes, great work everybody!

>
> Today we are in a state where shipping an alpha of what becomes Calligra Words
> 3.0 (if 3.0 is the next version what afaik we didn't agreed about yet) will be
> possible this week.
>
> This are the things that are open right now;
> 1. Anchors. This is what Casper was working on within last few days and it
> seems to be in a good state. There is one case where we end in an infinite
> layout-loop. That case is identified and mostly fixed.
> 2. Seems for whatever reason headers+footers have sometimes the wrong height
> (means are to large). I just figured that out a hour ago and already have an
> idea how to fix it. Should be done tomorrow.
> 3. Undo/redo. While a lot of testing went into loading+layouting+saving there
> are still issues with some actions (e.g. insert/remove page) that lead to
> crashes on undo/redo. I plan to work on this within next days to restore the
> state we had before (no crashes). But then I don't see that as showstopper for
> an alpha (or is it even before-alpha?) release.
>
> That's it. So, this is a call for testing. If you have trunk/master and some
> time please try to crash Words. We still have some days left to address any
> such direct visible problems so our enduser-alpha-testers won't run into
> problems to fast. If you found a problem please create a bugreport at
> bugs.kde.org against calligra-words and I will take care of it. Thanks in
> advance and may the force be with us :-)

I filed the crashes

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272410
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272431

today.

While I'm not sure they're directly related to the layout merge,
they're still easy to reproduce crashes.

Regards,
Elvis