I'd like to ask a question (or rather two):
* Are there any plans on using GNOME CVS and GNOME Bugzilla for Inkscape development?
Since I've already searched the website and the archives for answers, but didn't really find them, I'd also like to also ask:
* Would you be interested in using GNOME CVS and GNOME Bugzilla for Inkscape development?
Remember, using either one does not require that you are part of GNOME Core in any way, or that you are required to have any dependencies more than what are already in Inkscape at the moment. To be precise, this is what is required for a piece of software to be in GNOME CVS:
http://live.gnome.org/NewCVSModules
Notice the lack of "you must use gnome-print", "we will dictate what you should use", "you cannot interoperate with any other platform", "using cvs.gnome.org means you have to eat babies", and so on. ;-)
So why would I suggest that Inkscape be using cvs.gnome.org and bugzilla.gnome.org? Well, doing so would make it much more easy for GNOME contributors to contribute to Inkscape (when given permission of course), and obviously also the other way around.
I come from a translation perspective, and cross-software contributions are especially important for translation. The GNOME Translation Project (GTP) has more than 115 language teams and many hundreds of translators translating into those languages. We're usually quite successful, and many applications that are placed in GNOME CVS get completely new translations within only a few days. Also, since the translation teams in the GTP cover all of GNOME, the translations are often very consistent in terms of terminology etc. So not only is (at least most of) the software HIG-compliant, it's also consistent in translated terminology.
But in order to do that, GNOME translators must have easy access to the software to translate. The reason it currently works is because all translation teams have access to cvs.gnome.org, and so they can translate not only all of GNOME Core, but all other software that's inside GNOME CVS, like Gimp, Dia, Gnumeric, Sodipodi, and so on. What the GNOME translators cannot easily do is translate applications that for some reason are hosted outside of GNOME CVS, like Inkscape. In order to solve that problem, Inkscape would have to be in GNOME CVS.
So being in cvs.gnome.org would really be a boost in terms of translations (and probably also other contribution-related areas as well). I'm confident that you'd see quite a lot of improvement in the area of translations just moments after a migration.
I hope that it comes without saying that if you should decide that you want to host Inkscape on cvs.gnome.org, I will personally help as much as I can with the migration process.
So what are your comments? Ideas? Questions? Flames? (On second thought, please avoid flames ;-)
Please cc: me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list.
Thanks for your consideration,
Christian