I just noticed that we have two "input devices" commands in File menu. Please whoever did this, decide which one we will use and delete the other!
In general, I would propose a "bus tomorrow" rule as a general guideline for committing stuff to our SVN:
Before committing, imagine you are hit by bus tomorrow and cannot
It seems like this project is really suffering from not having decent source control software, because this is exactly what branches were designed for - something which is a major PITA in SVN.
It really worries me that the inkscape SVN is such a free-for-all, leading to the situation that between releases, the quality of the code drops so low that it takes months to tidy it up again; and still there are many bugs released. If you had GIT or Bazaar or whatever, combined with a decent organization structure (allowing only a few people to apply patches to trunk), you'd see the quality of inkscape radically improve because people would be able to experiment and mess around without hosing the trunk.
Wine is a good example of this working well - they are able to release every 2 weeks. Their code is beautifully tidy, they have very few bugs and regressions, and there's very little redundancy because a few people are keeping an eye on what's being put in.
Git is really helping us on the Lumiera project for exactly these reasons.
Joel