Hi.

To keep the subject short I may had to offer the meaning of it, compared to my suggestion.

I've noticed that the latest official stable version of Inkscape is released somewhere in august 2011. In comparison, if you take a visit the site where develop versions is compiled and ready for downloading, there seems to be a lot of work on those dev versions. The latest one is only three days old.

Even though the stable version is stable, it's not free of bugs. In the develop versions, many of those bugs is fixed but new bugs is often noticeable when trying to use those dev versions.
For me personally, the most important bugs that is actually fixed in dev versions, but is persistent in the stable version is
Bug #165780 - Pattern gaps and Bug #835832 - Handles do not snap with modifiers active.
In the same time, the Bug #871792 - does really cripple the dev versions.

Is there really no hope that fixes for dev version also can apply to the stable branch?

Just look at the Geogebra software. They have both a stable version that get fixed whenever bugs is discovered in the develop (next) version.


Thanks

Hi Grobe,
I'm certainly not the best person to answer why developers do things in certain ways. What you suggests sounds reasonable to me though. Maybe such a system as you describe only needs the right person to volunteer to do it?