On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:55:31 +0000 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Cc: inkscape inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Winlibre and Upping our point release numbers
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:23 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, jon wrote:
I keep seeing in comments people saying how our app is very well developed for such an early release thus implying that the app is new. The public perceives an app through maturity on many levels. What do you all think?
It's nice having a <1.00 number since that sets expectations in our favor, but I'd certainly support jumping towards 1.00 faster if it'd gain us benefits.
Given that we take 2-4 months between releases, even if we jumped by .1 each time, that'd still put a 1.00 release a couple years away, which "feels" like the right timeframe to me...
Yeah, maybe the more important task at hand is to do what our mission says which is to be a SVG compliant editor. Maybe the more important thinking is that (and maybe we can loosely agree to this):
I have to admit though, 2 years away is a long time to get to our main goal (as stated in our mission on the front page of the site). As I keep learning from people whom are not in our community, the public at large does not care about all this jargon and point release systems, etc., for joe public to use Inkscape, the tool probably has to be >= 1.0 as big software companies have advertised their products as being, and Inkscape would need publicity and stability.
0.50 would be SVG Tiny (this is a general thinking overall thing)
this and a few carefully chosen features (possibly leaving out a few things) could be called 1.0 (perhaps not so soon but somewhere in 0.5x releases)
1.0 would be full SVG 1.2 compliancy (both rendering and editing)
and this could be 2.0.
it all depends on if the developers agree that a stable 1.0 realease is important to some users as we think it is.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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