Project Status
Saturday, January 31, 2004
We're currently in a pre-feature freeze mode, focusing on closing bugs and doing some other cleanups to ensure the upcoming 0.37 release is solid. A full feature freeze will occur shortly, and we anticipate the final release occuring before the next status report.
Much of the effort the past two weeks have focused on bug fixes, minor feature enhancements, and other tweaks. Here's just a brief synopsis of some of the work lately: Attention has been put into the handling of icons, including some fixes for Win32. Further discussion over keyboard shortcuts has identified some improvement tweaks. Some documentation updates/rewrites have been done. A discussion about a remove/apply transformations has resulted in some good ideas and sparked some coding effort in that direction. We've temporarily disabled the 'Filters' menu, with the plan to reactivate it later when we've gotten it more useful. Some discussion on renaming the Dialogs menu has also occurred. A code style document has been drafted after much debate and haggling, and we're looking forward to applying our new rules on the codebase well into the future. A full screen mode has been added.
SourceForge has been problematic the past couple weeks, with both CVS and email being either extremely slow, or unavailable entirely. We expect the mailing list problems to resolve themselves once the MyDoom virus has passed; the CVS issue appears to be more chronic so we are considering alternative providers and will be switching once a suitable one is found.
We recognized a need for a tutorial, and after considering some of the more typical options like firing off the default HTML browser or tying in with platform-specific help systems, we hit on a novel idea - why not use Inkscape's SVG text subsystem directly, like is done with the About Inkscape dialog box? What better way to teach SVG than to present it in SVG directly? :-) This has inspired a *bunch* more ideas that we hope to see folks explore in the future.
Statistics Nov 15 Nov 29 Dec 15 Dec 31 Jan 15 Jan 31
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Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 3676 2452 2444 1928 1945
(68.5%) (73.6%) (82.4%) (82.5%) (86.1%) (86.1%)
Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 37 27 22 321 335
(99.6%) (99.8%) (99.8%) (99.9%) (97.5%) (97.8%)
Total SF Page Views * 50,000 86,000 107,600 126,500 158,000
Total SF Downloads * 1700 3640 4,751 5,735 7,300
Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 1121 2237 2567 2,958 3,178
Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 19 28 30 33 34
Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 116,970 132,134 165,664 166,914 164,140
Code lines 100,549 132,458 133,150 130,557
Comment line 11,591 12,234 12,468 12,424
Blank 20,559 21.540 21,929 21,796
Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 2,100 2,225 2,615 3,068 3,505
Lines of content in website: 1,173 1,624 2,090 2,261 2,885 2,994
Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 5,737 7,385 11,062 11,284 11,897
Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 120 1260 42 6 4
Bugs open/total: 9/15 40/51 67/111 66/130 74/160 61/166
Features open/total: 18/18 23/24 40/45 103/115 104/120 108/124
Patches open/total: 1/ 6 5/20 6/25 4/32 4/32 3/33
CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 963 * 1580 * 2343
Inkscape-devel membership: 49 61 64 65 64 63
Inkscape-announce membership: 9 14 16 20 22 23
Inkscape-user membership: 0 11
* - Statistics unavailable
