[Inkscape] Announcing Inkscape 0.38 Release
by Bryce Harrington
= Inkscape 0.38 =
The focus of this release has been our Bug Hunt. Of the 57 open bug
reports at the time of our last release, only 12 remain; of the 107 bugs
submitted during this bughunt, all but 17 are now closed; the ratio of
open to total bugs went down from 33% to 10%. Of the 285 bugs reported
since the inception of the project, fewer than 30 remain. In total,
over 135 bug reports were closed during the Bug Hunt. Countless other
bugs were discovered by the developers and exterminated on the spot
without ever going into the tracker. We are especially appreciative of
the many users who have helped us identify the various bugs and verify
the solutions.
Aside from bugfixes, a good deal of new features and usability
enhancements went into this release:
* Text and fonts: full kerning and spacing support, better installed
font detection, better alternate font matching, better usability
* Path operations: new commands to cut paths, less distortions, better
usability
* Gradients: full support for multi-stop gradients, bugfixes
* Shape tools: polygons, dramatically better usability with the top
panel, bugfixes
* Libinkjar: a library for compound document support of packaged SVG and
PNG files
* Pure usability: canvas autoscrolling, accelerated scrolling, inversion
for visibility, more intuitive cut-and-paste, per-object selection
indication, save dialog, new icons
* Paraphernalia: new and expanded tutorials, clipart, translation
updates
For more details, see the Release Notes for 0.38:
http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes038
Screenshots:
http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php
Download your packages (Linux and Windows):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
19 years, 5 months
[Inkscape] Inkscape Project Stats - April 4, 2004
by Bryce Harrington
Project Status
Sunday, April 4, 2004
We've achieved the goal set forth for the 0.38 release. The ratio of
open-to-closed bug reports has been reduced from 33% to our goal of 10%,
representing over 160 bugs closed during the 0.38 development cycle. Of
the total of 285 bugs registered against Inkscape since the project's
inception, fewer than 30 remain.
We're ready at this point to make the release, but want to do some final
QA, doublecheck that the contributed translation work is incorporated,
and see about getting a couple critical Windows bugs patched.
Looking forward, we've greatly revised our roadmap, stretching it out as
far as the 0.51 release. Note that our roadmap is a reflection of what
developers anticipate needing/wanting to work on, rather than a
cast-in-stone set of orders, and is expected to change as we learn more
and as new developers with new interests get involved.
For this next release, we'd previously identified Extensions as the
focus, however we're not as far along in terms of design as we need to
be, so instead have pushed that back a couple releases, and will be
focusing on adopting first Pango in 0.39, then GtkMM in 0.40. The Pango
adoption is expected to solve a wide number of rather deep bugs and
fundamental limitations in the text system, while the GtkMM change has
been long anticipated for helping us get the GUI code in better, more
maintainable order.
Statistics Nov 15 Dec 15 Jan 15 Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 1
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Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 2452 1928 1599 * 1348
(68.5%) (82.4%) (86.1%) (88.6%) * (90.4%)
Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 27 321 70 90 73
(99.6%) (99.8%) (97.5%) (99.5%) * (99.6%)
Total SF Page Views * 86,000 126,500 200,000 * 306,000
Total SF Downloads * 3640 5,735 10,000 * 15,500
Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 2237 2,958 3,437 4,670 5,054
Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 28 33 35 50 54
Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 132,134 166,914 167,386 177,286 185,126
Code lines 100,549 133,150 131,540 138,457 144,628
Comment line 11,591 12,468 12,995 15,584 16,137
Blank 20,559 21,929 23,513 24,061 25,266
Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 2,225 3,000 4,500 4,434 4,875
Lines of content in website: 1,173 2,090 2,885 4,300 5,087 5,168
Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 7,385 11,284 13,114 14,840 14,819
Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 1260 6 2 0 7
Bugs open/total: 9/15 67/111 74/160 53/178 43/244 30/286
Features open/total: 18/18 40/45 104/120 120/137 151/184 165/202
Patches open/total: 1/ 6 6/25 4/32 2/ 35 6/ 45 8/ 56
CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 * * 2796 3070 3,391
Inkscape-devel membership: 49 64 64 63 75 77
Inkscape-announce membership: 9 16 22 26 35 39
Inkscape-user membership: 0 21 38 50
* - Statistics unavailable
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