Since some folks seem worried about us being "scooped" by the upcoming Sodipodi release...
How would you all feel about doing an Inkscape prerelease -- that is, take a known-good CVS snapshot this weekend, make a dist tarball from it, call it .. 0.37-rc1, and put it on the site with something like the usual announcement and release notes.
As it's a prerelease, we won't need to worry about filing (all) the rough edges off or packaging for other distros, but we'll still have put our stake in the sand.
Maybe that way we could focus better on getting the final release out quickly, without feeling so much pressure to rush.
-mental
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 22:47, MenTaLguY wrote:
Since some folks seem worried about us being "scooped" by the upcoming Sodipodi release...
I'm not too worried about this. I think though, that if Sodipodi comes out on Monday - Tuesday would be a bad day for a release ;)
How would you all feel about doing an Inkscape prerelease -- that is, take a known-good CVS snapshot this weekend, make a dist tarball from it, call it .. 0.37-rc1, and put it on the site with something like the usual announcement and release notes.
I think this wouldn't be a bad idea anyway. If nothing else it will let people take a first pass at stuff like packaging so that we don't forget the debian directory again in the official tarball ;) I can make this and upload it, and all that stuff Sunday night. Sound good to everyone?
It would be nice to get this release out the door, I think there are some features that are starting to get held back because people don't want to commit them coming up to a release.
--Ted
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Ted Gould wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 22:47, MenTaLguY wrote:
Since some folks seem worried about us being "scooped" by the upcoming Sodipodi release...
I'm not too worried about this. I think though, that if Sodipodi comes out on Monday - Tuesday would be a bad day for a release ;)
I think we have enough new features that Sodipodi does not have, that this release is going to look good regardless of whether it comes out before or after. There's value in being "first post" but also a lot of value in being more bug-free, featureful, and comfortable to use.
How would you all feel about doing an Inkscape prerelease -- that is, take a known-good CVS snapshot this weekend, make a dist tarball from it, call it .. 0.37-rc1, and put it on the site with something like the usual announcement and release notes.
I think this wouldn't be a bad idea anyway. If nothing else it will let people take a first pass at stuff like packaging so that we don't forget the debian directory again in the official tarball ;) I can make this and upload it, and all that stuff Sunday night. Sound good to everyone?
Works for me, although I'd really like to see us focus on getting the official release out as swiftly as possible. Could you put the prerelease out today? I'm thinking if we put in a good weekend we can probably get all the outstanding items completed and be ready for an official release by Sunday evening. We're awfully close.
Bryce
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