Hi all,

As discussed a few weeks ago, we'd like to form a new community focused on testing of Inkscape. If you are interested in helping Inkscape in ways other than coding, this may be the place for you.

Thanks to rejon's fix to wiki, we now have a place to collect information related to testing of Inkscape:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TestingInkscape

An inkscape-tester mailing list is also available for you:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester

There are many ways to test inkscape. Already, many people have contributed greatly to inkscape by simply reporting issues they discover during ordinary use. The Inkscape Tester community will seek to push beyond this by doing more aggressive, focused testing.

Our community's goals will include the following long term goals:

* Show that Inkscape is fully SVG compliant with all SVG specifications.

* Give developers confidence that if bugs are introduced to the codebase, they will be identified and reported to them swiftly.

* Ensure Inkscape's files can be loaded into all other compliant SVG software, that Inkscape runs equally well on all platforms, and that Inkscape can be used easily with a range of other open source desktop applications.

* Prove that Inkscape's usability is best in class.

* Track Inkscape's performance and help motivate its improvement to become the fastest, lightest weight, and most efficient drawing application available.

These are ambitious goals, but through testing we can help pave the way for them to be achieved. If these sound like goals you feel like helping to achieve, please join in building a new Inkscape Tester community.

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester

Bryce