J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
The rate of bug fixing has drastically slowed down compared with a month ago, and it's a bit of a concern. Thoughts?
I think there are many bugs that are not reported, but are critical and are being fixed. (luckily it does not add up to the score here, because otherwise we'd leave the bug hunting phase with still many critical bugs, e.g. crash bugs!) Note that the SVN log shows that bug fixes happen daily ! It's gone "underground".
I agree with Johan - a lot of bugs that are not in the tracker are still critical (at least to a certain extent) and are constantly being fixed (although indeed it seems that the rate has slowed down a bit, but this is probably due to vacations being over and such). It's a bit unfortunate that this slows down the scoring process and hence transition to the next release phase. Then again IMHO it's better to get these things fixed so as to obtain a more solid and stable release than to hurry forward but end up with a lot of bugs that will diminish the great impact and positive user echo anticipated for this release.
Question: How are regressions going to be treated? There are a couple that occured in the tracker in the past few days, such as:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/184942 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/184935 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/184942
There may be more (or even untracked ones). Is it imperative that these be fixed? I personally think that by all means we should avoid releasing 0.46 with these present. But how are we going to proceed if the score of 500 points is reached with these bugs still open? Same question for critical bugs. Is the release held back until all of them are sorted out?
Max
P.S.: I apologize that I won't be of great help in bug fixing during the next couple of weeks, although I'll try to invest all the little spare time I can manage.