On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:55:18AM -0700, MilesTogoe wrote:
Loïc Martin wrote:
Now, if 0.46 appears in the repos before the official campaign starts, where is the harm, as long as it's a real 0.46 (finished on the Linux side with all developers happy and proud of it)?
can there be a "stealth" release to Ubuntu, Fedora with idea that any fixes make their release deadlines giving a month or so for the official .46 release to make it in. This seems what they do for Gnome (although that might be an understandable holdout exception). This idea would commit an official Inkscape release within a month.
This seems like a very reasonable solution. This would allow meeting the deadlines for Ubuntu and Fedora, yet permit Windows additional time to resolve it's bugs.
The risk is that someone would post something to slashdot during the embargo and get interest stirred up prematurely and mess up the PR - which has happened before. But probably a manageable risk.
We should be able to get individual critical fixes (crashes or data loss only) in once 0.46.0 is accepted, even after beta but before the release. There is more paperwork involved, but far less than happens after release.
Bryce