With the bug hunt out of the way, the last bit of bug fixing work is to attend any MustFix bugs. These are extremely serious bugs such as ones that cause frequent crashes, or that risk bad data loss.
I've gone through the current (as of 1/8/07) bug list and separated out the ones that a) we don't have enough info to debug, b) are out of our hands anyway, or c) don't cause crashes or data loss.
Please review this list and identify any you can show to be must fix bugs.
For a bug to be nominated to be a MUST FIX bug, it must also include a willing owner who can work on it right now, and some form of a plan for what to do about it. (Otherwise, blocking on it may prove unproductive.)
CRASHES OR DATA LOSS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1515192 make check failure 1630485 Inkview don't support blur / crashes 1630101 crash inkscape click in connectors network aling 1575829 Metadata are truncated at 4 chars and add a char 18 hexa 1464771 whiteboard: cannot connect to jabber server then crashses
REQUIRES UPSTREAM ACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 969321 "Dialogs on top" does not work on Windows
REQUIRES MORE INFORMATION OR CONFIRMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1627110 Assertion hit in inkscape_get_repr when getting prefs 1612057 memory limit at 1GB 1538282 crash when switching to selection tool 1519462 OpenBSD: Inkscape hangs/segfaults 1418122 Conf corruption when opening files with non-UTF encoded 1507967 [INFO NEEDED] Cannot open svgz 1516476 build problems on Solaris 1395505 0.43 crash at startup on Win98se 1614820 Crash when moving nodes in XML Editor after duplicate. 1603579 Crash open file dialog start directory with 1513877 autopackage libcairo.so.2 dependency problem 1508157 GDKpixbufInput files to Init on SuSE 10.1 with 0.44pre4 1503564 win2003 SP1: crash on start 1467137 Shrinking a pattern causes lock-up 1624076 Crash after changing canvas size fields by click 1499971 detect and warn about installed libsmooth 1496718 Text paragraph display problem on OS X
MISBEHAVIOR BUT NO CRASH OR DATA LOSS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1469554 fixed length toolbars prevent working on narrow screens 1494967 Text toolbar: too difficult to close fonts drop-down 1495039 whiteboard backtrace reveals sensitive information 1448618 Fonts weight variants selection 1441003 flowRoot error with inkscape's svg 937347 symbol fonts not supported? 1586421 Mandarin TEXT RENDERING problem 1584935 blur not exported to pdf 1519730 Linked offset performance issues 1513484 icc compile error 1441767 OpenType fonts with postscript outlines not supported. 1370904 isnan issue, sun Solaris 8 gcc 1143821 COPY/PASTE doesn't work with system clipboard 1505549 drag and delete line crash Inkscape 0.45devel (crash fixed)
Bryce