Bryce:
... Does anyone know someone that works in the media app maintenance area for SuSE or RedHat? It would be useful to hear their feedback on how they plan to handle maintenance of inkscape in their release, including what kinds of patches they would want (i.e. security only? Bug fixes? Translations?) Anyone know SuSE / RedHat people they could ask?
I have asked someone at suse to forward the following letter:
Inkscape is an SVG editor application for Linux/Mac/Windows.
As a member of the inkscape development team, I'm looking for contact to relevant people maintaining the media apps who can say something on what SuSE needs from us for being able to support their products in the future. This step was made necessary by our plans to increase requirements for building inkscape from gtk+-2.4 in the upcoming 0.44.1 release to gtk+-2.6 in 0.45 (half a year from now at the earliest) and gtk+-2.8 in 0.46 (> 1 year). As your Enterprise products require gtk+-2.4 at the moment, we will maintain the 0.44.x branch at least until this requirement is lifted. For this, we need to know from you which changes to inkscape you want to be applied to that branch. Please understand that that version will not get any new features.
The possibilities include
[ ] security fixes only; [ ] severe bug fixes; [ ] all applicable bug fixes; [ ] translation fixes; and [ ] new translations.
Please give us feedback!
Regards Ralf "rwst" Stephan
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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:58:16 -0700 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> To: "Jon A. Cruz" <jon@...18...> Cc: Inkscape Devel List Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...>, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Proposal: Upgrading Gtk for Inkscape 0.45 (was Re: Gtk 2.8 for 0.45?) Message-ID: <20060708215816.GC17746@...961...> References: <20060624202956.GK22746@...961...> <CADBB8FC-D1B7-4B43-86CC-E2A780FD2361@...18...> <20060625073128.GA4523@...748...> <906F8ED7-10D0-424B-B2DF-CA3154208476@...18...> <3b69e42c0607060508x272a530en38abf8c14101e82b@...401...> <141DB472-1787-4A88-AAA1-7C4B5ECB6F90@...18...> <3b69e42c0607070007r44eed02fp7ca3e7d3314cc419@...401...> <20060707181540.GA25724@...961...> <1152323285.5673.2.camel@...16...> <10D552F9-774C-4FBA-BF5C-84E825386979@...18...>
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:06:21AM -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jul 7, 2006, at 6:48 PM, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:15 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
From the discussion, I gather that 2.6 *is* reasonably well supported on Mac. Thus, this suggests perhaps it would be wisest to do our 2.8 upgrade in two steps:
0.45 - Move our requirements to Gtk 2.6 Communicate our Gtk 2.8 ambitions to the Mac Gtk port maintainers. Encourage Inkscape Mac developers to experiment with 2.8 Around Sept, re-evaluate Gtk Mac 2.8 status
0.46 - Depending on evaluation, move to Gtk 2.8
I'm in favor of this proposal.
-mental
Sounds good to me too.
Cool, if we can get a couple more people I think that'll be a sufficient concensus. Does anyone have any concerns?
It sounds like it will be helpful to have this plan in place, as it'll define priorities for the port maintainers to focus on for the coming months.
Oh, though I do want to point out that the move to 2.6 will give some pain on Linux for enterprise distros. So perhaps we'll end up with a few month's window where we keep maintaining 0.44.x a bit longer to cover base support, then get to move on come December. That way they get *something* supported, just not the latest new features. But then again, that's what you get with a corporate distro in general. :-)
Yes, that's true. Does anyone know someone that works in the media app maintenance area for SuSE or RedHat? It would be useful to hear their feedback on how they plan to handle maintenance of inkscape in their release, including what kinds of patches they would want (i.e. security only? Bug fixes? Translations?) Anyone know SuSE / RedHat people they could ask?
Bryce
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