Re: dia future

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 00:26 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> > [...]
> > 1) When do we make the next release? And what will it take?
> Fixing enough bugs to make it worthwhile is the minimum requirement.
> My goal is to have only about 50 bugs open when doing rc1. Especially no 
> critical bugs must be open. (The one I'm working on is the font size 
> mess, e.g. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538499
> But also 108293, 120337, 162034, 345538, 438020
>
> > 2) When do we transition to a more recent version of Gtk? And what
> > will that take?
> Very convincing reasons: either some new functionality only available 
> with a newer version or some critical bug only available with an  older one.

How about this reason: It'd stop you from having to go "it's in SVN,
just compile that" to about half the feature requests on the list?
Seems to me that such answers are a clue that a new release is in order
-- shows that desired new functionality is available.

-Lars