On 7/17/07, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Ubuntu's next feature freeze is August 16th, one month from now. I would love to see Inkscape 0.46 ready for inclusion there, and would be able to pitch in help if others are also interested in getting an Inkscape release out in that timeframe. What do you think?
My vote is no for this dev cycle of Ubuntu. It won't be in the main repos, but wouldn't a backport be doable? I know that's not the most user friendly, but it's not a bad compromise for one release. Another option is since we have a couple Ubuntu folk on board, perhaps we could have unofficial debs on SF for people.
Judging by the past, by April 2008 we will be ready to kick out a well tested 0.47 release, while with a) just a month ahead and b) developers, translators and maybe even students travelling away we will most likely crash into 0.46.1 or maybe even 0.46.2 (remember 0.42.2?), so we will end up with either updates or backports for Ubuntu 7.10 anyway.
Snapping to GNOME release plan nodes ;-) is an interesting idea. But maybe we are slightly more "creative" and less predictable :-) than GNOME developers to tell ourself: no, we want to postpone this cool feature.
<provoking>And even being an avid Ubuntu user I don't think that Ubuntu is better that either SuSE, or Mandriva or Fedora Core or etc. to depend on.</provoking>
Alexandre