On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 21:44 -0700, Windell H. Oskay wrote:
Thus, the "who benefits" question now prompts a new one: Do we as a community wish to (eventually) include Windows 10 S amongst the list of operating systems that are officially supported by Inkscape?
If you think about the word "support" it sounds awfully like there's a bunch of resource behind said endorsement to help people and ensure quality.
We try our best of course, but this loose confederation of people doesn't have anything but good will to support any operating system. So in terms of a commercial product, we support no system. (I just want to make this part clear)
If someone created a version of Inkscape for the Atari, I'd probably put it up on the website. Given some basic checking that it was a real thing. It wouldn't be top billing or anything, but that'd be the kind of "support" we'd offer.
And this is an os store, we don't need to host anything.
Without a relationship between Microsoft and the Conservancy and some sort of board vote for accepting money from the store. There's just no business relationship there, so anyone could support the Inkscape build into the Microsoft store, even Microsoft themselves could. We could hold the keys in some special place, or have a repository of build scripts which placate the store's installer, but that's about as much "support" as we'd be capable of offering.
So. If you want Windows store support for Inkscape. Please, please, go right ahead and start building that. I'll try and help with what raw support we can offer, but it's something that needs the meat of time from a dedicated person (or people).
Best Regards, Martin Owens