Re: dia future

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09.01.2009 05:11, Octavio Alvarez 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
>
> Besides testing, is there any particular test we non-developers can do
> to help?
(I'm assusimg you meant task not test.)

 * checking out the new features from SVN and updating the manual [1]

 * triaging bugs [2] could help to get the bug count down.

 * providing pleasant examples - especially for shape sets which currently
   have no example at all - would help, too.

Thanks for asking,
        Hans

[1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/dia/trunk/doc/en/
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide

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