Inkscape 0.92.1pre2 (release candidate) now available
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions
The release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.tar.bz2
We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 02:33:27PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versionsThe release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.tar.bz2We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
And release notes are here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92.1
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
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Hi Bryce,
I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction.
Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/
Thanks everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions
The release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.ta r.bz2
We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:56:08PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Hi Bryce,
I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction.
Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/
Thanks everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Thanks for putting this together Martin!
Is review comments by email ok? Just one thought so far:
"Inkscape is aiming to make a point release every three months or so this year as we create a more stable, git based, Gtk3 based and C++11 based project going forwards for the next 0.93 release sometime next year."
You may want to clarify the wording here to avoid leading people to think that the 2-3 month cadence of releases will bring Gtk3 and so on. Maybe something more like:
"Inkscape is aiming to support a stable-focused 0.92 version, with point releases every three months or so this year, as well as experimental versions as necessary transitions to git, Gtk3, and C++11 are introduced."
(I know 'as well as' is sloppy grammar, but the basic idea is to message is that we're going to be providing parallel stable and bleeding edge versions for the community.)
Bryce
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions
The release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.ta r.bz2
We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
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Thanks for putting this together Martin!
Is review comments by email ok? Just one thought so far:
"Inkscape is aiming to make a point release every three months or so this year as we create a more stable, git based, Gtk3 based and C++11 based project going forwards for the next 0.93 release sometime next year."
You may want to clarify the wording here to avoid leading people to think that the 2-3 month cadence of releases will bring Gtk3 and so on. Maybe something more like:
"Inkscape is aiming to support a stable-focused 0.92 version, with point releases every three months or so this year, as well as experimental versions as necessary transitions to git, Gtk3, and C++11 are introduced."
(I know 'as well as' is sloppy grammar, but the basic idea is to message is that we're going to be providing parallel stable and bleeding edge versions for the community.)
Thanks Bryce,
I've edited in your change, we could add a small paragraph saying what we're looking for in new contributors too.
Martin,
I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"? Unless this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?
All best, brynn
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 4:56 PM To: Bryce Harrington ; inkscape-devel@...6... Cc: inkscape-user@...6... ; inkscape-announce@...6... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92.1pre2 (release candidate) now available
Hi Bryce,
I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction.
Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/
Thanks everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versionsThe release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.tar.bz2
We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 05:00:16PM -0700, brynn wrote:
I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"? Unless this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?
Sure, if everyone thinks it's an acceptable plan then that definitely sounds like a better way to phrase it.
Bryce
All best, brynn
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Hi Bryce,
I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction.
Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/
Thanks everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions
The release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.ta r.bz2
We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
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It's just that if there's no author shown anywhere, how will people know whose thoughts those are. Even now, I'm not clear if it's Bryce or Martin.
Or changing the title could help to indicate this is one person's thoughts. Bryce's 2017 Development Plan, for example.
This News item sort of diverges from most articles, which are written towards the user community. This one is more addressed to developers. I'm not saying it's good or bad. Just noting how different it is.
Glad to help if I can.
All best, brynn
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 05:00:16PM -0700, brynn wrote:
I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"? Unless this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?
Sure, if everyone thinks it's an acceptable plan then that definitely sounds like a better way to phrase it.
Bryce
All best, brynn
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 4:56 PM To: Bryce Harrington ; inkscape-devel@...6... Cc: inkscape-user@...6... ; inkscape-announce@...6... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92.1pre2 (release candidate) now available
Hi Bryce,
I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction.
Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/
Thanks everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions
The release is:
0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.ta r.bz2
We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.
== Translations ==
Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.
== Future Releases ==
0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.
A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.
Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.
I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.
Bryce
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On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 21:09 -0700, brynn wrote:
It's just that if there's no author shown anywhere, how will people know whose thoughts those are. Even now, I'm not clear if it's Bryce or Martin.
Or changing the title could help to indicate this is one person's thoughts. Bryce's 2017 Development Plan, for example.
This News item sort of diverges from most articles, which are written towards the user community. This one is more addressed to developers. I'm not saying it's good or bad. Just noting how different it is.
In a way I feel like having a few more development related articles shows users that we're working on actual code, not just releases but actively doing things.
It's nice to know we're a project in action. :-)
This plan can be voted on by developers if we feel strongly about having checkboxes checked. But without other developers speaking up to break the consensus (or in this case silent consensus) there's no benefit to going down the rabbit hole. Bryce's ideas are good and I'd stand by them as a project direction for which the whole project could voice as the plan.
Do other developers want to add to the plan or bring up a concern?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 17:00 -0700, brynn wrote:
I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"? Unless this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?
We the project. So everyone can have review it and I don't mind. Getting it in front of other people will be useful.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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