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):
0.50 would be SVG Tiny (this is a general thinking overall thing)
1.0 would be full SVG 1.2 compliancy (both rendering and editing)
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.
I'm talking generally here, but hey, it feels like time to zoom out and think about where this project is heading.
Also, somehow Firefox and Thunderbird went from 0.4/0.5 to 1.0 in around a year, and they both seem fairly stable. Although, they do have quite a few more developers on each team, right?
Jon
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