releasing inplications

[Cyrille Berger]

>On the plus side we have:
> - user awareness
> - bug reports
> - attracting developers
You forgot to mention : krita has been in development for more than five 
years, it's about time to have a release. And having a release means we can 
have the opinion of users, and we can be sure the redisign match the desires 
of users.

> On the minus side we have:
> - half finished design that would undergo several changes in the next many
> releases, meaning fileformat and plugin changes. Backwards compatibillity
> would be an issue.
It was already plan to have a major rework after the first release of krita. I 
think it won't be difficult to have an import/export plugin for older 
fileformat. As for plugins, we use iterators to reduce this problem.

> - releasing a bugfilled application - is that a reputation we want
It's already the reputation of KOffice, and most KDE users are still willing 
to test the new released.

> - attracting developers - the more we are the less consensus.
Maybe, but there is no need for core developpers, new developer might work on 
the plugins. And anyway it's up to the official maintainer to take the final 
decision. More developpers == more ideas.
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--- Cyrille Berger ---