On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 20:38, bulia byak wrote:
If someone would like to backport some fixes and things for a potential 0.39.1 release, they'd basically just need to check out the RELEASE_0_39_BRANCH, then commit the fixes normally on that branch.
I don't think this will work. Many fixes (and doubtless many new bugs) are due to major reworking of the internals and are not separatable. Not to mention that there weren't a lot of fixes since 0.39; if we have some energy for bugfixes I'd much prefer it being spent on 0.40.
I agree with Bulia on this. I think that it is much better to work ahead. But, what I am curious about is whether this will become the interface between open source and the commercial world. That is kinda what is happening with the Linux kernel, Linus is maintaining the development push ahead version -- and then letting the distros pull those patches into whatever version they like. If people were using Inkscape in a commercial environment, I could see some of them willing to pay to get all the fixes in a stable branch. I'm sure other projects are the same. It'll be interesting if someone will make a desktop distro with extended updates and support for all the applications, or if this will fall on smaller, more specific companies.
--Ted