[Skencil-devel] Revitalising Skencil

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2010 13:46:21 schrieb Igor Novikov:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Bernhard Reiter 
> > So you also rename "Sketch" to "Skencil"? Would be okay.
> > Overall it looks like a more intensive reorganisation.
> > As you and your team are the only active committers right now,
> > and if this makes you more productive: Go ahead.
>
> OK. I will start committing today.

Cool!

> > > Concerning ver.1.0 I would prefer maintaining release 0.6.18 and after
> >
> > that
> >
> > > final ver.1.0 which will be
> > > last in tk branch. Gtk port could be started as ver.1.1
> >
> > I think the shuffling of files and the introduction of distutils
> > would warrant a 1.0 release right away. It still is a maintenance
> > release, but it would reflect the state of the software much better.
> >
> > I would call a port to GTK or Qt version 2.
> > The problem with any major step in development is that it will not get
> > a lot of user support unless it is almost as good as the "stable" version
> > and this usually means a lot of development time.
>
> It's not a problem. But if we are going to announce 1.0 version we should
> polishing UI and functionality before release but not only project
> revitalizing.
> I think this will take ~1 month. So Skencil release will be possible at
> the end of October.

Fine with me. One month is not going to change much I guess.
(Reintroduction of the package in Debian Squeeze would be cool, but I don#t 
know if this still is possible and what would be needed to be done for it.)

Best,
Bernhard

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