In preparation for 0.44, I'd like to share what I know about the status of various developments, as well as ask people to submit their updates. Ideally I'd like to see EVERY developer to respond to this email with their status updates.
But first, some food for thought. Judging by SF statistics, 0.43 is the first Inkscape version where we failed to double the number of downloads. Up to 0.42, the approximate doubling rule held (if we count 0.42 and 0.42.2 as one version), but 0.43 got only a bit more downloads than 0.42: 347000 vs . 300000, even though this release was longer. May be a stats glitch, but may be an indication that 0.44 needs to be marketed more aggressively.
Here are the items I'm aware of, in no particular order:
1. Snapping. I sent a call for Carl and Mathieu some time ago but got no response. Even if we leave this in its current status, we must do at least two things: fix the freezing when dragging multiple selected objects (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&gro...) and write the release notes for the new stuff. In the absense of the main authors, help is welcome from anyone who has an idea of the changes since the last release (Ralf?).
2. Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. It can't be committed yet since it has a problem with scrolling, but the author says he can fix this. In that case it definitely should be in 0.44, even though it's a bit risky. But we have time to test it still.
3. Scislac has taken on collecting/making screenshots and updating the tutorials. I don't know of the current status of this.
4. Layer dialog: Mental has promised to commit it before the release. Looks like it's the biggest remaining feature item, and its completion will determine the date of the release. Any status update will therefore be especially appreciated.
5. Jon Cruz seems to be in the middle of a hacking bout, but again I don't know exactly what's done and what is planned. Filling out the release notes would help a lot. Jon, please do it NOW.
6. Aaron has finalized quite a number of useful features, the remaining one being the "crop canvas" thing which just needs to be hooked up. After that (I think) he was going to work on the path effects branch - which means he will, at least, have something to hack on while we all will be painfully frozen :)
7. I need to do one interface tweak in Calligraphic (requested by Mental) and maybe one other small thing. Both pretty small.
8. Richard (cyreve), can you please fill in the Release Notes on the bugfixes you did to the Windows font handling?
9. Last I tested, extensions still don't work on Windows for lack of PyXML. It would be a pity to not enable them because of this. Ishmal, can you look into it?
10. Bob (ishmal), what is the status of the SIOX tracing and ODG export, as well as DOM? Will any of them be usable for 0.44?
11. One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this?
12. On Jabber, someone called "deadchip" started work on text dialog and toolbar and even showed some code. If you are reading us, can you please say hi and give us an update/estimate? This is a very important missing piece in Inkscape UI.
13. Does anyone know the status of the Windows "dialogs on top" patch for GTK? Scislac, as you contacted the author, can you please write him again? Not exactly our problem, but would be nice to have it finally fixed.
14. Bugs to be fixed: apart from the drag freezing in snapper, I know of some weird tablet event bugs that Mental is debugging. Anyone willing to nominate bugs for mustfix status please follow up.
Anyone having something to add to this list is very welcome.
Also of interest is this old mail of mine: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13934323 Some things listed there are done, some are as far ahead as they were then. But overall, we made good progress.
Lastly and MOST IMPORTANTLY, we need to designate one or two release maintainers willing to keep and update this list and push people to fulfill their obligations. The release time is the time when anarchy is suspended and a dictatorship is temporarily installed. The maintainers need to be aggressive and tireless: send daily reminders, make noise on jabber, urge and ask and plead and beg to get things done. Every item in this list needs to be followed up until it's resolved somehow, and every new issue that emerges needs to be added to this list. That is the only way to get the release out of the door fast and to avoid the endless and meaningless freeze that so frustrated us last time.
(as you might guess, I can't be a maintainer this time - too much work lately...)
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 4/17/06, bulia byak wrote:
- One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help
text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this?
Some extensions are not translatable. Do you want me log a bug report on this?
Anyone having something to add to this list is very welcome.
15. There was an interesting patch to add Undo/Redo dialog, but its author seems to be silent these days.
Alexandre
On 4/17/06, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
- One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help
text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this?
Some extensions are not translatable. Do you want me log a bug report on this?
Sure, especially if some are - this means it can be fixed easily :)
Anyone having something to add to this list is very welcome.
- There was an interesting patch to add Undo/Redo dialog, but its
author seems to be silent these days.
Ah, yes. The situation is this: we agreed that before this goes in, we need to add undo annotations, and Mental explained how this can be done. So if the original author has disappeared, anyone is very welcome to pick this up and eventually commit the patch. Just as Mental for instructions.
And another thing:
16. The patch to use the new file chooser in export. We kinda agreed that it would be nice to just embed it into the export dialog, but lacking that, maybe the current patch can go in as is?
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:10:46 -0300, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
- The patch to use the new file chooser in export. We kinda agreed
that it would be nice to just embed it into the export dialog, but lacking that, maybe the current patch can go in as is?
I think we'd better, for now. We can always embed the export dialog in a file selector widget later.
-mental
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 4/17/06, bulia byak wrote:
- One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help
text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this?
Some extensions are not translatable. Do you want me log a bug report on this?
Yes, please. Could you send me the bug ID when you create it? Or just assign it to me.
Are there other things in the Inkscape GUI that aren't translatable? We should starting finding those also.
Thanks, Ted
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 21:58 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine a écrit :
On 4/17/06, bulia byak wrote:
- One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help
text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this?
Some extensions are not translatable. Do you want me log a bug report on this?
I'va also opened a bug about the translation of license strings in document metadata, after checking that all the licences mentioned in the proposed list are translatable. Translators can have a look at the links noted in the tracker for links to those translated licences.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1473186&gro...
Regards,
Matiphas
Some extensions are not translatable. Do you want me log a bug report on this?
I'va also opened a bug about the translation of license strings in document metadata, after checking that all the licences mentioned in the proposed list are translatable. Translators can have a look at the links noted in the tracker for links to those translated licences.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1473186&gro...
The "Proprietary" string was already translatable but not the others.
I *think* I fixed this. Can someone test it by regenerating the files in po/ ? Or check my fix?
ralf
bulia byak wrote:
- Scislac has taken on collecting/making screenshots and updating the
tutorials. I don't know of the current status of this.
Screenshots - I have 2 done currently, 1 more I'm working on, and this evening I will be posting a call for screenshots to both the user & devel lists as well as deviantart.
Tutorial updates - Calligraphy is mostly done, and I've drafted a few of the other updates to the other tutorials but that stuff definitely needs more work (not even in my own docbook checkout, still drafting in OO.org). I will have the Calligraphy one uploaded in a couple days. Depending on how much time I have this weekend, I may be able to knock the rest of them out by next week.
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape? If we're lucky it's already in docbook which would be nice. If we do, do we go for the gtk help browser or svg like our tutorials?
- Does anyone know the status of the Windows "dialogs on top" patch
for GTK? Scislac, as you contacted the author, can you please write him again? Not exactly our problem, but would be nice to have it finally fixed.
I will write to him this afternoon. I recall from when I last looked into this that when Tor tested his patch the problem was dialog ownership with shared dialogs. Basically, if you minimize one instance of Inkscape, the dialogs get minimized with it which doesn't work so well for our shared dialogs if working with multiple documents. Any thoughts on this?
-Josh
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
Since it's HTML, I see little reason to include it instead of just linking to it. Instead what we need is a verb that could open an URL in the default browser. Is this not too difficult to do? If it's not, we could link a lot of useful things from the menu (FAQ, relnotes) and even bind F1 in Xara profile to opening the Guide.
I will write to him this afternoon. I recall from when I last looked into this that when Tor tested his patch the problem was dialog ownership with shared dialogs. Basically, if you minimize one instance of Inkscape, the dialogs get minimized with it which doesn't work so well for our shared dialogs if working with multiple documents. Any thoughts on this?
The dialogs as I coded them sense when the desktop switches and always become transient to the current desktop. This means that if you have two documents open and minimize one, the dialogs remain open on top of the other one (which becomes current). This is a hack, but GTK provides us with no way to do this properly, so I coded this hack and it works. It also means that as soon as the general "make one window transient to another" functionality is enabled on windows, this should also be taken care of by the same mechanism.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:45:39 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> Cc: inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel@...6...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.44 status
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
Since it's HTML, I see little reason to include it instead of just linking to it. Instead what we need is a verb that could open an URL
The downside of that is links are extremely brittle and may not be around in 2 years time and then users will be stuck with links we cannot update. Two years is an underestimate of how long some people will use 0.44, some users just dont upgrade very often, others take what their sysadmins or distributions give them and updates could be even less frequent.
A link to "Online help" somewhere on the inkscape site where we could update external links if necessary might be a less brittle solution you coudl live with. Also by labelling it online help users will have a better chance of predicting it will fire up another big slow program and might take more than a few seconds, unlike the local help.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:45:39PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
Since it's HTML, I see little reason to include it instead of just linking to it. Instead what we need is a verb that could open an URL in the default browser. Is this not too difficult to do?
The Portland project is providing a lib that includes functions to invoke desktop functions such as opening a URL, in a cross-desktop manner. It's on my todo list to experiment with this in Inkscape, although I was planning on holding off until after the release.
Bryce
--- Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:45:39PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should
we
consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
regardless of format etc, I'd have said that the authors copyright is the bigger issue, wasnt he writing this to be a book at some point? Linking from the menu seems like the best idea, preferably via a redirect page on our website so we can avoid breakage due to adress changes.
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On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:01 -0700, John Cliff wrote:
--- Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:45:39PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should
we
consider including the Guide to Inkscape?
regardless of format etc, I'd have said that the authors copyright is the bigger issue, wasnt he writing this to be a book at some point? Linking from the menu seems like the best idea, preferably via a redirect page on our website so we can avoid breakage due to adress changes.
Hi,
Yes, I am searching for a publisher and am waiting for a reply from one.
A link to the website would be most welcomed. As the content moves around as material is added or corrected it would only be appropriate to provide a link to the book's website or table of contents. While I don't plan on moving these it does make sense to use a redirect page to avoid link breakage if I should ever need to. It also allows the possibility of linking to different versions of the book that are geared for different versions of Inkscape.
Tav
PS. The source is in DocBook form.
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Yes, I am searching for a publisher and am waiting for a reply from one.
<snip>
PS. The source is in DocBook form.
Tav,
I don't want to risk your ability to find a publisher, as I really want a printed copy of the manual, but what would you think about including the Docbook files with Inkscape? I believe that Scrollkeeper will take Docbook files directly, which would allow us to just use a help browser like Yelp (or others) to display them for the user offline.
--Ted
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Tutorial updates - Calligraphy is mostly done, and I've drafted a few of the other updates to the other tutorials but that stuff definitely needs more work (not even in my own docbook checkout, still drafting in OO.org). I will have the Calligraphy one uploaded in a couple days. Depending on how much time I have this weekend, I may be able to knock the rest of them out by next week.
I'm *very* interested in these updates. Are they very much 0.44 specific? At least tracing tutorial needs update on SIOX.
The reason is: we are having a new OpenOffice.ru box release soon. Inkscape and Scribus are to be on that CD, and Inkscape's tutorials should be in the printed book. I'm now proofreading their translation into Russian and I have to be done by 21st, April.
So, do I have to watch for your updates? If most changes are not 0.44 specific, is there anything I could do to help you having updates be out sooner?
I had brought this up before but did not see a response... should we consider including the Guide to Inkscape? If we're lucky it's already in docbook which would be nice. If we do, do we go for the gtk help browser or svg like our tutorials?
Does Inkscape actually support hyperlinks the way browsers support them?
GIMP's source docs are in DocBook/XML as well. So maybe xsltprocessing the book to HTML and reusing GIMP's help browser would be good. But then we are to have two types of reading help (SVG and docbrowser), which is not good.
Alexandre
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Tutorial updates - Calligraphy is mostly done, and I've drafted a few of the other updates to the other tutorials but that stuff definitely needs more work (not even in my own docbook checkout, still drafting in OO.org). I will have the Calligraphy one uploaded in a couple days. Depending on how much time I have this weekend, I may be able to knock the rest of them out by next week.
I'm *very* interested in these updates. Are they very much 0.44 specific? At least tracing tutorial needs update on SIOX.
Most are 0.44 specific, although some are not. I tell you what, I can re-prioritize this work and do the non-0.44 specific stuff first, commit that, and shoot you a note. I should be able to get those things in svn tomorrow night if you're interested.
So, do I have to watch for your updates? If most changes are not 0.44 specific, is there anything I could do to help you having updates be out sooner?
I'll see where I stand this evening, and if it looks like I'll need help I will let you know ASAP.
-Josh
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Most are 0.44 specific, although some are not. I tell you what, I can re-prioritize this work and do the non-0.44 specific stuff first, commit that, and shoot you a note. I should be able to get those things in svn tomorrow night if you're interested.
Great, that would be a huge help, of course, only if it doesn't affect your work in any unwanted manner.
So, do I have to watch for your updates? If most changes are not 0.44 specific, is there anything I could do to help you having updates be out sooner?
I'll see where I stand this evening, and if it looks like I'll need help I will let you know ASAP.
Thank you, Josh!
Alexandre
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 4/17/06, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Most are 0.44 specific, although some are not. I tell you what, I can re-prioritize this work and do the non-0.44 specific stuff first, commit that, and shoot you a note. I should be able to get those things in svn tomorrow night if you're interested.
Great, that would be a huge help, of course, only if it doesn't affect your work in any unwanted manner.
Not at all. :)
So, do I have to watch for your updates? If most changes are not 0.44 specific, is there anything I could do to help you having updates be out sooner?
I'll see where I stand this evening, and if it looks like I'll need help I will let you know ASAP.
Thank you, Josh!
Sorry about not getting back to you last night, it looks pretty manageable and I should be on track to commit late tonight (hence my not stressing to get assistance ;)). So, tomorrow morning the updated docbook stuff will be waiting for you. NOTE: Remember, this update is so you can get updates applicable to pre-0.44 releases, the rest of the updates with 0.44 stuff will be trickling in over the next couple weeks.
-Josh
On 4/18/06, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Sorry about not getting back to you last night, it looks pretty manageable and I should be on track to commit late tonight (hence my not stressing to get assistance ;)). So, tomorrow morning the updated docbook stuff will be waiting for you. NOTE: Remember, this update is so you can get updates applicable to pre-0.44 releases, the rest of the updates with 0.44 stuff will be trickling in over the next couple weeks.
Great! Thank you so much!
Alexandre
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:49:42 -0300, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
- Layer dialog: Mental has promised to commit it before the release.
Looks like it's the biggest remaining feature item, and its completion will determine the date of the release. Any status update will therefore be especially appreciated.
I've been blocked on getting Inkscape::LayerManager to compile for weeks. It's some subtle detail with with sigc::mem_fun(), but I'm lost at the moment. It's probably some really stupid thing that I simply can't see because I've been staring at the same code for so long; I've used sigc::mem_fun() successfully many other times.
(So, if someone wants to have a look with fresh eyes, it'd be much appreciated...)
Lastly and MOST IMPORTANTLY, we need to designate one or two release maintainers willing to keep and update this list and push people to fulfill their obligations.
Incidentally, do we have a ReleaseChecklist wiki page or similar to keep track of The List?
-mental
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, bulia byak wrote:
But first, some food for thought. Judging by SF statistics, 0.43 is the first Inkscape version where we failed to double the number of downloads. Up to 0.42, the approximate doubling rule held (if we count 0.42 and 0.42.2 as one version), but 0.43 got only a bit more downloads than 0.42: 347000 vs . 300000, even though this release was longer. May be a stats glitch, but may be an indication that 0.44 needs to be marketed more aggressively.
Perhaps, but I'm also curious how much we can believe SF statistics. Even at SCALE I told people to get Inkscape from their distro...
- One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help
text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this?
It is still a little way off, I doubt I will get it done for this release.
Anyone having something to add to this list is very welcome.
What I do plan on finishing up is cleaning up the parameters so there is longer text (tool tips) available and a few more widgets. Also so more spacing in the autogui to make it look nicer. I think there is also a bug (I haven't verified it yet) in the ordering of the effects in the menu.
--Ted
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:29:23PM -0500, ted@...11... wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, bulia byak wrote:
But first, some food for thought. Judging by SF statistics, 0.43 is the first Inkscape version where we failed to double the number of downloads. Up to 0.42, the approximate doubling rule held (if we count 0.42 and 0.42.2 as one version), but 0.43 got only a bit more downloads than 0.42: 347000 vs . 300000, even though this release was longer. May be a stats glitch, but may be an indication that 0.44 needs to be marketed more aggressively.
Perhaps, but I'm also curious how much we can believe SF statistics. Even at SCALE I told people to get Inkscape from their distro...
I gave up keeping track of the stats when they converted to the new system after running into a variety of discrepancies and irregularities. Perhaps they've been sorted out, but given that we know inkscape is being distributed in so many ways outside SF (including magazine CD's, distros, compilation CD's, and so forth), download numbers are not as certain of a statistic as they used to be.
Besides, I think a better measure of the project success is developer-related activity. Are we successfully attracting and keeping new developers? Are current developers happy with the project and sticking around? Are we building good relationships with other projects?
These are harder to measure, but given the number of conferences Inkscape has been invited to this past year compared with previously, this is a good sign.
Bryce
On 4/17/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
I gave up keeping track of the stats when they converted to the new system after running into a variety of discrepancies and irregularities. Perhaps they've been sorted out, but given that we know inkscape is being distributed in so many ways outside SF (including magazine CD's, distros, compilation CD's, and so forth), download numbers are not as certain of a statistic as they used to be.
Here'a another metric: recently, for the first time, the number of hits for "inkscape" on Google image search has fallen from 6500 to 5840. That number changes only once every several months, but on all previous changes it approximately doubled.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:18:14PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
I gave up keeping track of the stats when they converted to the new system after running into a variety of discrepancies and irregularities. Perhaps they've been sorted out, but given that we know inkscape is being distributed in so many ways outside SF (including magazine CD's, distros, compilation CD's, and so forth), download numbers are not as certain of a statistic as they used to be.
Here'a another metric: recently, for the first time, the number of hits for "inkscape" on Google image search has fallen from 6500 to 5840. That number changes only once every several months, but on all previous changes it approximately doubled.
That's an interesting measure but I doubt it's due to issues with 0.43. More likely it's just an effect of the amount of time since the last release. Or maybe everyone's busy playing with Xara now. ;-)
Bryce
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:18:14PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: Here'a another metric: recently, for the first time, the number of hits for "inkscape" on Google image search has fallen from 6500 to 5840. That number changes only once every several months, but on all previous changes it approximately doubled.
That's an interesting measure but I doubt it's due to issues with 0.43. More likely it's just an effect of the amount of time since the last release. Or maybe everyone's busy playing with Xara now. ;-)
I think we should not worry about the adoption rate slowing, this may have a natural explanation: maybe Inkscape has filled is niche and there is no room for such a sustained grow (the same as Firefox adoption slowing down after they got at 10%). If this is true, then for increasing the growth rate another niches have to identified and filled. Or maybe some people wait for certain features (blur, pdf export, you name it) before jumping ship.
That being said, i remember a very good blog post made by Bryce on his blog about why the number of users is not the most important metric for a FOSS project (sorry, i can't find a link to it).
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
I gave up keeping track of the stats when they converted to the new system after running into a variety of discrepancies and irregularities. Perhaps they've been sorted out, but given that we know inkscape is being distributed in so many ways outside SF (including magazine CD's, distros, compilation CD's, and so forth), download numbers are not as certain of a statistic as they used to be.
Here'a another metric: recently, for the first time, the number of hits for "inkscape" on Google image search has fallen from 6500 to 5840. That number changes only once every several months, but on all previous changes it approximately doubled.
I've been noticing a lot more stuff on Flickr... ofcourse, one is a picture of Jon Cruz ;) Some are screeshots and other things, but I did find it interesting. One is complaining about the printing dialog in Spanish :)
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/inkscape
--Ted
On 4/17/06, ted@...11... <ted@...11...> wrote:
Interesting! Speaking of which, Scislac, when is the next update of inkscape.deviantart.com?
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
bulia byak wrote:
On 4/17/06, ted@...11... <ted@...11...> wrote:
Interesting! Speaking of which, Scislac, when is the next update of inkscape.deviantart.com?
Favorites were updated this morning. :)
-Josh
- Richard (cyreve), can you please fill in the Release Notes on the
bugfixes you did to the Windows font handling?
Done. I'm disappointed that I didn't get much done this release; real life is to blame, of course, and shows no signs of letting up. I fear I'm going to be relegated to bug-fixes only for the forseeable future.
- On Jabber, someone called "deadchip" started work on text dialog
and toolbar and even showed some code. If you are reading us, can you please say hi and give us an update/estimate? This is a very important missing piece in Inkscape UI.
I think this is the third text toolbar I've heard of that's been started but not finished. Is there a particular problem which prevents this functionality being implementable, or is it just unlucky?
Richard.
On 4/17/06, Richard Hughes <cyreve@...400...> wrote:
- Richard (cyreve), can you please fill in the Release Notes on the
bugfixes you did to the Windows font handling?
Done. I'm disappointed that I didn't get much done this release; real life is to blame, of course, and shows no signs of letting up. I fear I'm going to be relegated to bug-fixes only for the forseeable future.
In any case, huge thanks for all you've done! Even if it's only bugfixes, your presense is very much appreciated. It's incredibly important that we have this critical area covered by someone so knowledgeable.
I think this is the third text toolbar I've heard of that's been started but not finished. Is there a particular problem which prevents this functionality being implementable, or is it just unlucky?
I guess bad luck is part of it, yeah :) As for me, I just hate writing GUI code, so I've been procrastinating with it beyond excuses. But the deadchip guy seems very proficient with GTK, so I hope it would work this time :)
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
- Snapping. I sent a call for Carl and Mathieu some time ago but got
no response. Even if we leave this in its current status, we must do at least two things: fix the freezing when dragging multiple selected objects (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&gro...) and write the release notes for the new stuff. In the absense of the main authors, help is welcome from anyone who has an idea of the changes since the last release (Ralf?).
I do not know what Carl and Mathieu changed, I only did the UI in Desk Props, but I'll have a look at the bug. No promises.
ralf
As another measure for release readiness, there are currently 17 priority-9 and six priority-8 bugs open of which six are Windoze specific and two on the Mac. I think they can be reduced at once to half the number by removing stale ones.
ralf
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
As another measure for release readiness, there are currently 17 priority-9 and six priority-8 bugs open of which six are Windoze specific and two on the Mac. I think they can be reduced at once to half the number by removing stale ones.
Which ones do you think are stale?
Bryce
You wrote
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
As another measure for release readiness, there are currently 17 priority-9 and six priority-8 bugs open of which six are Windoze specific and two on the Mac. I think they can be reduced at once to half the number by removing stale ones.
Which ones do you think are stale?
Those that I removed in the meantime although it didn't reach the number I predicted.
ralf
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:39:14PM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
You wrote
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:05:15AM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote:
As another measure for release readiness, there are currently 17 priority-9 and six priority-8 bugs open of which six are Windoze specific and two on the Mac. I think they can be reduced at once to half the number by removing stale ones.
Which ones do you think are stale?
Those that I removed in the meantime although it didn't reach the number I predicted.
Cool, thanks for updating that.
Bryce
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