On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Peter Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br></blockquote></div><br>Peter,<br><br>I guess that is one way to see it, but there are other perspectives.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>cjl<br>