I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"? Unless this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?

All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 4:56 PM To: Bryce Harrington ; inkscape-devel@...6... Cc: inkscape-user@...6... ; inkscape-announce@...6... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92.1pre2 (release candidate) now available Hi Bryce, I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction. Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/ Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: >This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. >Download it at: > > https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions > >The release is: > > 0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip > https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.ta >r.bz2 > >We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute >issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the >version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully >finalize the release this weekend. > > >== Translations == > >Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until >we're ready to start work on 0.92.2. > > >== Future Releases == > >0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once >the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule >will >be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in >April. > >A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to >continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month >interval, >so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) >product. > >Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. >In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are >several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to >Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, >introduction >of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build >system, >migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold >off >on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long >term >stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the >more >aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward. > >I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, >though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and >I >hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, >I >know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly >builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim >snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing >before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle. > >Bryce >------------------------------------------------------------------- >----------- >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel