-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: maandag 3 maart 2008 13:15 To: bulia byak Cc: Loïc Martin; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.46 release debate
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:33:03PM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Loïc Martin
<loic.martin3@...400...> wrote:
would be the best. Personally, even though I know it
won't happen,
I wouldn't find disrespectful to release 0.46 on all
platform and
advertise it, even if print sill doesn't work on Windows. Just advertise it so people know what to expect, and 0.46.1
will fix the bug like other
.1 releases have done for other bugs before. That, or
just start
the campaign for 0.46.1 (see my comments below - who
remembers Open
Office 2.0 anyway when what we all started to use was at
least 2.0.4?).
A few years ago, releasing 0.xx.1 was considered an
emergency measure
and a bit of "losing the face" for the project.
No. A few years ago we lacked the project resources to support more than just one release at a time. We have grown a great deal since then, and supporting dot releases like all other open source projects is now entirely within our capabilities.
I think we should really avoid 0.xx.1 releases, because Inkscape has no automatic updating or a way of notifying the user that there is an update. It is hard to advocate usage of Inkscape over Illustrator or CorelDraw when it is easy to crash. Inkscape might be more convenient, but losing your work after again a crash is very very annoying, and scares many users away (if it weren't for me standing behind them begging them to use Inkscape...). Which is why I usually only search the bugtracker for the 'crash' tag. I think a user does not expect a new release to be buggier at old features than the old release.
Right now we still suffer from crashes that are easy to trigger (for example with the extensions, I hope live preview is turned off by default?), which is my greatest concern. I hardly ever print drawings, and actually don't even know what Inkscape's print dialog looks like. So please note that there are concerns other than printing, that also count for the Linux release.
Regards, Johan