On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:08:36PM +0100, Abrolag wrote:
On Mon, 25 May 2009 03:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Penner <penner@...2467...> wrote:
see also the discussion at : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/166678 and at : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/373309
Thanks for these links.
While I appreciate that the devs are all working on their own time, this makes depressing reading - such a long time for a bugfix. I've never had any success compiling SVN versions so I guess I'm stuck until the next release.
You can help reduce the time it takes to fix bugs, even if you can't fix them yourself. The developers have to spend time answering mailing list queries, writing (drawing) documentation, managing about-screen competitions, and working out how to reproduce bugs that have been reported. If you can do any of these things, you can save a developer's time, which he or she can instead use to fix bugs and add new features.
And don't forget that helping out the community in that way gets you more respect, which can be traded in at a later date for preferential fixing of the bugs that annoy you.