On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:31:34AM -0400, mike@...869... wrote:
Hi guys,
I just wanted to congratulate the entire Inkscape team on the 0.42 release. I tried the final version and it works really well - in fact I've been using it at work to do some of the graphics for a commercial product we're working on. You guys have one of the best managed and most approachable open source projects around, and you should be proud of that.
I'd also like to thank you all for bearing with us as maintainership of the Inkscape autopackage transitioned away from me to Aaron. It's a young technology but judging by the number of people using the Inkscape package, it seems to be working OK. You can see how many people are installing an autopackage for the first time by looking at the runtime download statistics. Notice how much higher todays figure is already than yesterdays (which was the first full day of counting) - and it's only 10:30am! That's the impact of your release:
Nice to see! It's great to see how working together has benefitted both projects so much; autopackage provides Inkscape users with an alternative that many find easier to install than their regular packages, and it sounds like autopackage has gained more widespread exposure and hopefully developed a larger audience in the process.
Hopefully over the next few releases we can put some effort into more aggressive package testing, and thereby make both projects more bulletproof for users to use.
Bryce