[scribus-dev] feature of welding page items

[Craig Bradney]

On 11/1/11 5:53 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2011/11/1 Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info <mailto:cbradney at scribus.info>>
> 
>     On 11/1/11 5:28 PM, a.l.e wrote:
>     > hi
>     >
>     >>
>     >>> But don’t forget that Master Pages cannot hold empty text or image
>     >>> frames so you can put content in them afterwards.
>     >>
>     >> Something that needs to be fixed. :)
>     >
>     > when you're a hammer everyting looks like a nail...
>     >
>     > i agree that scribus should improve some tools related to this topic, but i'm convinced that there
>     > are better ways of solving this problem than making the items on the master page editable:
>     >
>     > - frame styles (planed)
>     > - scrapbook (90% there; must be easier to share with a .sla file)
>     > - symbols (linked scrapbook elements; implemented in 1.5svn)
>     > - multiple insert (90% ok in 1.4; should be possible to build upon the selection)
>     >
>     > ... imo, all them together are better than editable items on the master page...
>     >
> 
> 
>     That won't get fixed in 1.5.0, and I am about to say the rest of the above list won't either that is
>     not already in 1.5.0svn.
> 
>     I will be approaching the team to declare a feature freeze on 1.5.0 soon - or it will take *forever*
>     to stabilise like 1.4.0 has. 1.6.0 will be 5+ years away if 1.5.0 isn't locked down soon.
> 
> 
> I am ok with most of this statement. However, before locking, we might as well review the whole
> thing and see what would be worth introducing into 1.5. But yes, freezing the features so we can
> move forward at a faster pace is something I am more than comfortable with. This doesn’t mean the
> development is stopped, it means we have a plan to release stable versions more often. Who would
> complain? :-)
> 

What it means is that all development work would be devoted to bug fixes, feature completion (eg
tables from gsoc needs finishing, as well as many other things) and general release preparation.

Craig