On Friday 07 April 2006 16:20, Maciej Hanski wrote: > Craig Bradney napisa?(a): > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:10, Nicholas Vettese wrote: > >> I know that I will probably get the answer, "When it is ready." I was > >> just wondering if there is an ETA. > > > > No.. When it is ready :) > > > > 1.3.4 is due in a few months. > > > > Craig > > There is yet another, perhaps more imporant question: When will Scribus > 1.3.x be suitable to replace Scribus 1.2.x? When should we start to > encourage normal, so to say round-of-the-mill users (and not only the > most courageous early adapters like Raphael :) to switch to 1.3.x? > > IMHO, the turning point is the implemantation of the new file format > and DTD, which is now planned for 1.3.4: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap#1.3.4 > > We could assure users, once this aim has been achieved, that their > Scribus documents will stay as they are, whatever direction the future > development of Scribus might take. > > The 1.3.x stability shouldn't be an issue -- the difference in stability > to 1.2.x is not so big that it would outweigh the benenfits of such a > switch. > > Speaking of 1.3.x benefits: there are so many that it makes me wonder if > the Scribus team couldn't reconsider the current roadmap and divide it > into _two_ stable stages? Which means: a stable 1.4 release right after > 1.3.4? Sometime in the autumn, perhaps? Just in time to make it into the > next releases of the major distros? > > You've achieved so much in the almost two years of the 1.3.x development > (only to mention the long awaited native ports for win32 and MacOsX) > that the 1.4 name is fully deserved. And I think, it's about time to > share your achievements with broader public:) > > What do others think about it?
You cannot think of 1.3.4 as a stopping point for the changes. 1.3.4 has already undergone some serious changes in the past few days. The major part of the guidemanager work, plus a complete new backend for the undo system as well as a new build system. There is a LOT more work to come in 1.3.4. We are not yet decided when to cut 1.3.4 off and stabilise and move into 1.3.5, but I doubt we will do all the planned work in 1.3.4 as it helps to make a release and force ourselves to go through a stabilisation phase sooner. We have talked about releasing a 1.4 sooner.. but who knows. :) Theres no way we can release 1.4 in autumn though, theres just way too much work ahead to get it stable (at a level we would be 100% happy with) before then. cya Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060407/8833822d/attachment-0001.pgp
