
Project Status Sunday, April 4, 2004
We've achieved the goal set forth for the 0.38 release. The ratio of open-to-closed bug reports has been reduced from 33% to our goal of 10%, representing over 160 bugs closed during the 0.38 development cycle. Of the total of 285 bugs registered against Inkscape since the project's inception, fewer than 30 remain.
We're ready at this point to make the release, but want to do some final QA, doublecheck that the contributed translation work is incorporated, and see about getting a couple critical Windows bugs patched.
Looking forward, we've greatly revised our roadmap, stretching it out as far as the 0.51 release. Note that our roadmap is a reflection of what developers anticipate needing/wanting to work on, rather than a cast-in-stone set of orders, and is expected to change as we learn more and as new developers with new interests get involved.
For this next release, we'd previously identified Extensions as the focus, however we're not as far along in terms of design as we need to be, so instead have pushed that back a couple releases, and will be focusing on adopting first Pango in 0.39, then GtkMM in 0.40. The Pango adoption is expected to solve a wide number of rather deep bugs and fundamental limitations in the text system, while the GtkMM change has been long anticipated for helping us get the GUI code in better, more maintainable order.
Statistics Nov 15 Dec 15 Jan 15 Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 2452 1928 1599 * 1348 (68.5%) (82.4%) (86.1%) (88.6%) * (90.4%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 27 321 70 90 73 (99.6%) (99.8%) (97.5%) (99.5%) * (99.6%) Total SF Page Views * 86,000 126,500 200,000 * 306,000 Total SF Downloads * 3640 5,735 10,000 * 15,500 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 2237 2,958 3,437 4,670 5,054 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 28 33 35 50 54 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 132,134 166,914 167,386 177,286 185,126 Code lines 100,549 133,150 131,540 138,457 144,628 Comment line 11,591 12,468 12,995 15,584 16,137 Blank 20,559 21,929 23,513 24,061 25,266 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 2,225 3,000 4,500 4,434 4,875 Lines of content in website: 1,173 2,090 2,885 4,300 5,087 5,168 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 7,385 11,284 13,114 14,840 14,819 Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 1260 6 2 0 7 Bugs open/total: 9/15 67/111 74/160 53/178 43/244 30/286 Features open/total: 18/18 40/45 104/120 120/137 151/184 165/202 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 6/25 4/32 2/ 35 6/ 45 8/ 56 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 * * 2796 3070 3,391 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 64 64 63 75 77 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 16 22 26 35 39 Inkscape-user membership: 0 21 38 50
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Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> [040405 08:44]:
We're ready at this point to make the release, but want to do some final QA,
Will there be some kind of beta, so that an user based testing is possible as well?
doublecheck that the contributed translation work is incorporated, and see about getting a couple critical Windows bugs patched.
Is someone already working on the German translation?
Sebastian

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Sebastian Stein wrote:
Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> [040405 08:44]:
We're ready at this point to make the release, but want to do some final QA,
Will there be some kind of beta, so that an user based testing is possible as well?
Since Inkscape follows the open source process, the most recent source code is always available for users to try out, and we definitely encourage them to do so. For Windows users, Ishmal provides nightly built Windows EXE's (see Wiki for details). Also, we've been doing good at getting new releases out pretty frequently - once every couple months on average. So it's probably not too necessary for us to do a formal beta test beyond what we're already doing.
doublecheck that the contributed translation work is incorporated, and see about getting a couple critical Windows bugs patched.
Is someone already working on the German translation?
I don't think so. Looks like the German translation hasn't been touched since Inkscape started. Definitely could use an update!
Bryce

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:30:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> To: Sebastian Stein <seb_stein@...173...> Cc: inkscape-devel@...6... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: [Inkscape] Inkscape Project Stats - April 4, 2004
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Sebastian Stein wrote:
Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> [040405 08:44]:
We're ready at this point to make the release, but want to do some final QA,
Will there be some kind of beta, so that an user based testing is possible as well?
Since Inkscape follows the open source process, the most recent source code is always available for users to try out, and we definitely encourage them to do so. For Windows users, Ishmal provides nightly built Windows EXE's (see Wiki for details). Also, we've been doing good at getting new releases out pretty frequently - once every couple months on average. So it's probably not too necessary for us to do a formal beta test beyond what we're already doing.
A release candidate followed shortly (days) by a proper release of the same code if no major problems are found is a system that seems to work fairly well for most projects.
- Alan

Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> [040405 10:14]:
doublecheck that the contributed translation work is incorporated, and see about getting a couple critical Windows bugs patched.
Is someone already working on the German translation?
I don't think so. Looks like the German translation hasn't been touched since Inkscape started. Definitely could use an update!
Ok, I added the German translation of inkscape to my personal todo list. I will come back to it maybe in a months...
Sebastian
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Alan Horkan
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Bryce Harrington
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Sebastian Stein