On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:52:03PM +0100, john cliff wrote:
On 7/17/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:50:01AM +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
On Monday, July 16, 2007, 11:49:16 PM, john wrote:
jc> On 7/16/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
bh> Okay, so then the next opportunity for getting Inkscape out for a
Ubuntu
bh> release will be next spring (April 2008).
jc> Then thats the next time we have an update of Inkscape in the Ubuntu jc> release.
Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) 7.04 have update mechanisms. Packages can be
shipped at any time. Thus, 7.10 and 8.04 are not the only shipping opportunities.
Yes, for Feisty I tried getting 0.45.1 in through the SRU process but it was not accepted since they were only interested in patches that fixed replicatable crash bugs. There is also a backports process but last I checked 0.45.1 was still waiting in the queue (it's been about a month). Given this, I don't have any faith that a 0.46 release not timed with the ubuntu release would get in after the release is made.
What I would like to see, though, is 0.46 showing up in the package repositories very soon after the release is available on SF.
No, it's extremely doubtful this could happen. But it is clear the concensus is that there is not a desire to do a release at this time, so the earliest Ubuntu users could see 0.46 in the official package repositories is April next year.
Bryce
Its not that theres no desire, just that I dont think its practically doable while maintiaining a good level of quality. If we did one, it would be rushed and likely buggy.
I did not say there's no desire, but that the concensus is that doing a release at this time (i.e. doing a release in one month) is not desired. Which is basically what you're confirming here. ;-)
For whatever case, "the stars are not right" for a release, and that answers my original question - I don't need to schedule Inkscape time this go around. Which is fine; I'm busy with other stuff anyway.
Bryce