On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:48:49PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:

Looking over the remaining level-9 bugs, here are my thoughts:

Bulia, would you mind reviewing the remaining bugs and giving your thoughts on which should be must-fixers? If we can narrow this list down really tightly, I think we may be looking at a release as early as this next weekend. :-)

Here's an update on the list I posted. The '***' indicates ones which I felt may be must-fixers.

1230742 etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc broken in windows build ***

Sounds like it should be fixed for this release. Doesn't sound too hard. Not sure what the cause is, though.

No info yet. Ishmal, can you update us on where we stand with this one?

1217361 freeze on quitting with transform dialog ***

Sounds like it's pretty pervasive, and causes a crash, so this is a must fix.

bpfowler has added some troubleshooting info on this one. I looked into this a bit but wasn't able to sort it out; ishmal, have you had any luck with it?

1210100 Selecting corrupted embedded images crashes ***

I think this may be fixed now, but we need someone on Win32 to confirm. Since it only happens on Windows, and only when using corrupted files, I'm not sure it qualifies as must fix, but since we have a patch to fix it, I think we may as well put priority on getting it done.

bpfowler posted a patch for this today. I think we're close to having this one closed.

1167897 missing units.txt ***

We really need someone on Win32 to sort this one out, but I think it qualifies as a must fix.

I need some help from someone who understands how the internal paths work on Windows. The units.txt file is getting installed to the correct place, but the #define for INKSCAPE_DATADIR appears to not be set on Windows. We need to have a way to communicate where the share files are on Windows.

1227185 Layer Add Then Move Crash ***

This sounds fairly important, but it appears to be Win32-specific and we do not have a backtrace. I think someone on Win32 should test it and report some additional debugging info, and we should treat it as a must fix.

1227186 0.41 won't start; uses 90%+ of CPU

This may be a packaging issue unrelated to Inkscape, and not a must-fix bug.

1226498 WIN: crash on open/import tiff

This bug simply requires use of libtiff3.dll in the windows package. If that's included in the latest package, then we can close this bug. However, I don't think I'd rank this one as a must fix, since it's an uncommon function and apparently occurs just on Windows.

1221401 WIN 2003: Loading the Tutorial crash Inkscape

Sounds like it's an issue with Gtk on Windows 2003 SP1, rather than Inkscape. It works on other Windows releases, so I think this is rare enough that it doesn't qualify as must fix.

1221398 WIN 2003: Saving a file crashes Inkscape

Possibly the same situation as 1221401; also it lacks enough debugging info to troubleshoot. If it can be replicated more widely, and if we can get better debug output, maybe this could be a must fix, but as it stands currently it doesn't qualify.

1202453 CRASH: effects

We do not have a reliable way to reproduce this. If someone can find a way to reliably reproduce it, I think it should be a must fix, but without that I don't think we should let it hold up the release.

1198534 The XML windows stops in a loop-search blocking program.

No one seems able to reproduce this one. It might be windows-only. Without some way to reproduce it, or a back trace, we can't consider it a must fix bug.

1169396 Crash on startup (win32)

We need someone on Win32 to verify this still exists; it may be fixed now. If it does still exist, it's a must fix, but unless someone can confirm and provide some updated debug info, I don't think it should be listed as must fix.

1157125 crashes on startup - document.cpp line 367

Possibly just a packaging issue; not enough info to debug it. It's also old and we haven't heard from the reporter for a while, so since no one can reproduce it, I don't think it qualifies.

1119649 Inkscape-0.41-1 One or more extensions failed to load

The bug that would not die. :-) The changes we've done for 0.42 will reduce the visibility of this bug, but since people are still reporting it, this bug should stay open to give them a place to add their comments to.

1108732 New releases still ~ARCH in Gentoo

I've been pushing to get 0.41 listed as stable in Gentoo, and have succeeded for 4 different architectures. Ironically, though, it's still not listed as stable for x86. In any case, this is completely external to the Inkscape codebase, so not really relevant to our bug fixing cycle.

995815 markers: markers don't take object color

This is more of a feature request, for an SVG 1.2 feature, so doesn't qualify as a must fix. Sure would be a nice feature to have though...

1220959 Scripts with Dependencies Crash Inkscape CVS

Since extensions are an optional feature, I don't think this is a must fix bug. Also, I suspect this one is going to require a LOT of work to get sorted out, so not something we can achieve in the near term anyway.

Okay, those are my thoughts on the critical bugs that are must-fixes. Please speak up if you disagree. I think we may be able to get these fixed within a week or two.

From reviewing the bugs it is clear that we are extremely desperate for more Win32 people to get more heavily involved in the QA process.

Bryce