crossposting as usual is confusing and hard to follow ...
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Peter Linnell wrote:
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:00:25 -0500 From: Peter Linnell <scribusdocs@...84...> To: Gregory Pittman <gpittman@...238...> Cc: Scribus List <scribus@...119...>, inkscape List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Re: [Scribus] Announcing Inkscape 0.37 Release
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But back to Inkscape -- my experience with Sodipodi [also in the < 1.0 version zone (both < 0.5 actually)] suggests that I have better things to do with my time.
but this comment on version numbers gives me an excuse to say something that has been on my mind for a while
The roadmap does not have an Inkscape 1.0 Stable Release on it.
I think Inkscape is great, and I think there could easily be a release of Inkscape 1.0 Stable in under six months. I dont think this would require much deviation from the existing roadmap just a little extra push for stability and deciding which features are exactly needed to declare 1.0.
I realise that release numbers like 'stable 1.0' are not very important to many open source users and developers and some dismiss it just as 'marketing' but they are very important to ordinary users and it makes it much harder to convince people to use pre-1.0 software and for those people it is very worthwhile to provide stable 1.0 (and it wont matter to the others either way).
It may be necessary to disable some of the advanced features if they do not work perfectly yet but the current feature set of Inkscape is easily as good as Jasc Web Draw (although it is often still quite hard to find all that functionality).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/