On 8/4/05, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
Well, I think many people have noticed an increased number of brown paper bag releases over last year. Lots of really nice software projects release some, say, x.x.x version, which is followed by a x.x.x.x one within several days: K3B, Evolution, The GIMP, Scribus and, sadly, Inkscape.
This happens, because the more people use some application, the more bugs are discovered.
Right - so older versions didn't have bugfix followups not because they were "better", but simply because too few users found too few of their bugs.
Consider Inkscape 0.42. If we didn't have 50K downloads in the first few days, most problems fixed in 0.42.1 would remain undiscovered for months, and 0.42.1 most likely would not happen at all.
So, I see absolutely no problem with a bugfix release at this point. All it means is that we're growing. If we had the same userbase as we do now but for 0.42 prereleases, we'd have a better 0.42 and no need for 0.42.1. But this also means that we WILL have this large userbase for 0.43 prereleases, and thus a good chance to make a better 0.43.