Roadmap to stable 4x branch

Thank you!

One idea: Since the 4.x branch is largely around CKEditor 5, the new format, and the migration path, and since paste-from-word seems to have stalled out, could we move forward with a 4.0 release and add paste-from-word in some future release?

Hoping to get paste from word in in the upcoming months, but in general still getting the occasional bug coming through for edge cases so I would like to give it a little more time. I highly doubt I would have any need for any significant changes, but there is still a low risk as the footnotes module seemed to have been used for a wide variety of cases in old versions and there is still quite a lot of usage in those older version.

In general the paste from word one should not be too painful as I got the skeleton code working there, but JS is not my strong area so I am hoping someone can pick that up before me that knows it better.

FYI we have these two in:

• ✨ Paste from Word - further source differences Fixed
• ✨ Handle paste from office for footnotes Needs work

but still reports from our own clients that not all purmutations are supported. For those interested in helping get this module to stable, please try out pasting and make MRs with updated example content

Steps to contribute to paste from word/office:

1. Try it via the UI yourself, e.g. via simpletest.me
2. Update the javascript here in the transform clipboard content function (and compile via the package.json scripts)
3. Add your html to here for test coverage
4. Add the expected conversion to the test coverage

I think we are close, I just want to have a period where there are no new bugs raised for a couple weeks and uptick is increasing in the module stats/decreasing in the 3x stats to show that the upgrade path is working fine.

Please give a thumbs up at https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/17309 to upvote the feature in Cke5 blocking solving pasting conversion.

@scott_euser , we should not have to wait for an upstream ckeditor5 issue, that could take several years or never ever get resolved. There are numerous serious bugs with prestine merge requests open upstream that have gotten zero traction over a 3 year period.

I suggest moving forward with your merge request to fix 🐛 Pasting should update the clipboard content rather than inserting Active

We should have a new tagged release with this fix.

I think you're right but may be a little bit because I want to properly retest it then. My route to booting up Word as a Linux user is firing up a very old slow laptop so a bit more involved than my normal testing :) Thanks for helping test and push things forward on these issues.

yes I'm the same way, I have a virtual box with WindBlows on it
but I have client machines also from clients hooked on that koolaid also.

spent at least 10 hours on this so far. plus another person on our team spent probably 7 hours on this already