Re: dia future

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09.01.2009 09:53, Lars Ræder Clausen wrote:
> 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?
IMO this is an indicator to stabelize for a release but not a reason to 
release a known to be buggy version ;)

> Seems to me that such answers are a clue that a new release is in order
> -- shows that desired new functionality is available.
Given that some people are using Dia in "production enviroment" I think a 
minimal quality level must be assured. And especially for the shiny (not 
anymore experimental) cairo renderer it would be a shame to leave bug 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538499

Having wrong font sizes in PDF, SVG, PNG, Antialized Rendering and the new 
way to print would reduce this feature just too much.

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