0.42.1 and Ubuntu Feature Freeze
Hey All,
As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42.
I already know that several of you already use and promote Ubuntu. It would truly suck if 0.42.1 missed Breezy.
Corey
Corey Burger wrote:
Hey All,
As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42.
I already know that several of you already use and promote Ubuntu. It would truly suck if 0.42.1 missed Breezy.
Corey
Sounds wonderful. It is good to be on Ubuntu. But what is the remedy but "hurry" ? That's what got us all into this situation in the first place, where we are worrying about various distros and architectures instead of development.
What precisely is needed? I would think that any code snapshot around this time, that is built on Ubuntu and nicely tested, would work fine. Just my poor opinion. ;-) Most of the distro problems have been the usual disjoints with existing and needed deps. I would think that this would need to work on an individual basis, and that building from source is the only safe delivery.
Bob
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:23 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42.
Well, I'm reasonably certain that we won't add any features to 0.42 anytime soon. So, even we release bug fixes that won't be a problem, right? I mean, all of the GNOME stuff is planning on releasing at least one more bug fix before Breezy. I'm quite sure 0.42.1 should be out before September as a bug fix release for bugs found in 0.42.
--Ted
On Thursday 04 August 2005 23:23, Corey Burger wrote:
Hey All,
As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42.
I already know that several of you already use and promote Ubuntu. It would truly suck if 0.42.1 missed Breezy.
FWIW, the only problems I've had with compiling and running 0.42 on Breezy is that I had to pull in some more recent libs from Debian Sid. I'm on a less-heavily tested PPC machine, so without trying to suggest that Inkscape bugs shouldn't be fixed (I'm not a core developer, and not responsible for such things anyway) I think the quality is reasonably good for release. Most of the big issues are on Win32, if I recall correctly -- something I'd expect for an app largely developed on Free Software.
Can bug-fixes be backported from Inkscape CVS to 0.42? Or can 0.42.1 get into Breezy through security or something like volatile as a simply bugfix?
On 8/5/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b@...786...> wrote:
On Thursday 04 August 2005 23:23, Corey Burger wrote:
Hey All,
As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42.
I already know that several of you already use and promote Ubuntu. It would truly suck if 0.42.1 missed Breezy.
FWIW, the only problems I've had with compiling and running 0.42 on Breezy is that I had to pull in some more recent libs from Debian Sid. I'm on a less-heavily tested PPC machine, so without trying to suggest that Inkscape bugs shouldn't be fixed (I'm not a core developer, and not responsible for such things anyway) I think the quality is reasonably good for release. Most of the big issues are on Win32, if I recall correctly -- something I'd expect for an app largely developed on Free Software.
Can bug-fixes be backported from Inkscape CVS to 0.42? Or can 0.42.1 get into Breezy through security or something like volatile as a simply bugfix?
Breezy is not yet released. I was just getting the crunch from the developers about timing.
Corey
On Friday 05 August 2005 10:00, Corey Burger wrote:
Breezy is not yet released.
Yes, I'm aware of that.
I was just getting the crunch from the developers about timing.
Ahh, sorry to butt in then :)
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