Re: dia future

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> 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

I would push for "release early, release often" ... there can be two
reasons for a release: 1) an important bug got fixed and 2) a very
useful feature got implemented, that should be made available to new
users. I think Dia should shift to a frequent release model, where the
minor-number is incremented every time even a single important feature
or bug gets fixed.

In the current state, there might be frustrated user out there (and
potential developers who can churn out one-line fixes), who don't take
Dia seriously simply because it appears to be stagnated. Rather than
ask "why release?", I ask "why not release?"

> > I am highly interested in a Gtk update. Things like the generic
> > "GtkRecentManager" facility are quite interesting ... we can replace
> > DiaDynamicMenu that is used for recent files, colours, fonts and
> > sheets.
> You answered that yourself ;)

Yeah. New Year TODO item for me: calm down a bit and stay away from
"oooh, shiny!" stuff. :P

Sameer.
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