I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"? Unless this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?

All best, brynn

-----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 4:56 PM To: Bryce Harrington ; inkscape-devel@...84... Cc: inkscape-user@...84... ; inkscape-announce@...84... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92.1pre2 (release candidate) now available

Hi Bryce,

I've pasted your text into news as a first draft. I'd like to get this message put together for our users and also broadcast it to a wider area to attract new developers now we have a stronger direction.

Can you (and others) please review so we can make this a strong message: https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/

Thanks everyone.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 14:33 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:

This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at:

https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions

The release is:

0.92.1pre2   Source Tarball Bzip
https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.ta

r.bz2

We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend.

== Translations ==

Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2.

== Future Releases ==

0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April.

A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product.

Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward.

I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle.

Bryce

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On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 17:00 -0700, brynn wrote:

I wonder if all the references to "I" should be "we" or "developers"?  Unless  this is going to either be a signed letter or have a by-line?

We the project. So everyone can have review it and I don't mind. Getting it in front of other people will be useful.

Best Regards, Martin Owens