On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Bob Jamison <rwjj@...127...> wrote:
But what this upsurge is all about, is people working on their own projects. What I'm talking about is supporting Inkscape in general.
Actually, now that I think of it, this at the same time is a reason for some optimism about the future. I just know it from my own experience. When you are relatively new to the project but already deep into it and feel yourself empowered by the new toy, you're spewing out grand projects and innovative ideas, paying less attention to housekeeping. But as time goes on, you settle down - and then refactoring, ironing for consistency, and general upkeep start to take more of your time. You still feel "married" to the project and want it to improve, but you may not have as much grand ideas as you used to :)
Besides, we do have a lot of relatively recent volunteers that are a great help with housekeeping. Just look at the bug tracker for example. There's an incredible level of activity there, and some of the most active bug triagers don't even have developer access yet.