Basically, the next thing we release will be buggy as hell, as it's the first Gtk+ 3-only release. There also won't be any new features from now until Inkscape 1.0. Therefore, it is by definition a pre-release of 1.0. Because of the scale of the changes to the underlying code, there can be no intermediate stable release.If we called it 0.93, I can guarantee that some distros will start shipping it as their default install, regardless of how we announce/document it. (Package maintainers are busy, and will often respond to automated pings from an upstream release tracker.) We don't want that to happen, as regular users should keep going with 0.92.* until 1.0 is ready, or they will have a very bad experience!... So the next release is going to be 1.0-alpha* (or similar), which will be for use only by bleeding-edge testers.Hope that help!AVOn Tue, 3 Apr 2018, 04:48 Christoffer Holmstedt, <christoffer.holmstedt@...400...> wrote:I'm a bit confused after reading the roadmap on the Inkscape Wiki [1] and your email Bryce. In the email you say that focus should be put on 1.0 and hopefully release it in a year (Spring 2019) or so. If this is the case then I see no problem in releasing 0.93 as an alpha. What about 0.94 and 0.95 items from the wiki, do we expect to finish them within the year or postpone those to post v1.0?
[1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap------------------------------------------------------------------------------2018-03-31 7:49 GMT+02:00 Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...>:One of the items scheduled for today was a review of the roadmap,
looking both at the next development release, and the path to releasing
1.0.
With the change to gtk3, we anticipate there may be some behavioral or
functional changes that users may not find desireable, but that we may
not discover until the release gets into widespread use, so it has been
our plan to message this development release (which we have referred to
as 0.93) as more "experimental" than 0.92, and continue releases on the
0.92.x series for them.
Even with this messaging, though, we worry that distributors of our
software may push 0.93 as the latest release, and fail to adequately
provide the 0.92.x series to users that wish to maximize stability.
So, one idea discussed today would refer to this development
release not as "inkscape 0.93" but as either "inkscape 1.0~alpha" or
"inkscape 1.0~pre0", and treat it not as a regular release but as an
alpha release for 1.0. From there we could conduct multiple further
pre-releases building towards a 1.0 release in, say, a 1-year timeframe.
What do you think of this change in versioning nomenclature?
Regardless of how we version the releases, there was a concensus among
attendees to sharpen our focus towards achieving the 1.0 release
expediously, prioritizing stabilization, testing, and documentation
efforts. Apart from a limited set of development tasks targeted for
1.0, most development would be strongly encouraged to be done in
branches with merge deferred to post-1.0.
As requested at the hackfest, I'll take the action to itemize a listing
of tests needing written or ported from the old test system, and
divvying them out to currently active developers willing to take care of
them.
For development work that does target landing in 1.0, we would require
or at least urge the work be done in a manner that permits disabling or
reverting it if testing finds it to be insufficiently stable.
I am pretty open as to what we call the pre-1.0 releases, and would like
to gather more people's thoughts before deciding a path forward. So,
how does this plan sound to you?
Bryce
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