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[Inkscape] Announcing Inkscape 0.38 Release
by Bryce Harrington 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

= 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

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[Inkscape] Inkscape Project Stats - April 4, 2004
by Bryce Harrington 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

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 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== 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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