On Sat, 2017-01-21 at 21:04 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
*I* think we did a great job. We had an intense number of severe problems that would likely have been far bigger impacts than this one, which we were able to resolve. Right now today, untold numbers of people are using the many new features packed into this release.
You're right of course. And your eloquent post about user involvement was very much on the money (you said what I wanted to say but much better)
Given the piles of bug reports we have, if it wasn't this particular bug it would have been one of the others. Or a *still* missing feature. Or performance under some circumstance, or UX that's utterly broken for some special use case.
In this case we may have mis-weighed the issue. considering how often Inkscape is used to add text to a project (rather foolishly perhaps considering svg's text support) but I'm not sure. Maybe we've taken too much power out of the hands of the bug managers (and maybe we could do with more bug people?) so they feel empowered to say "No, this must be fixed before release".
isolated release but a series of releases that (hopefully) get better
as we go.
the next release is going to rock :-D
Best Regards, Martin Owens