release readiness

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 24 November 2011 Nov, Lukast dev wrote:
> > We've just released the 4th beta, so it's time to check the current state of Krita. We've made some good progress, but I'm not entirely elated, to be honest... We're far from an excellent release yet.
> 
> I agree that the state is not very good, I hope to work hard around
> Christmas holidays :)
> 
> > 262324 lukast.dev at gmail.com krita produces artefacts when upscaling
> 
> I'm slowly progressing with this one. TODO is to port scaling to use
> new iterators, but
> first I need to isolate the actual bug.
> 
> We use old iterators still everywhere, and I'm not
> sure if we manage to port all code for 2.4 release..

No... It would be good, but it's a lot of work, and last time we ported a bit of code we found a new bug in the NG iterators!

> > 217292 boud at valdyas.org Ability to paint transparency masks
> 
> I was wondering why is this critical bug? I would classify it as
> long-standing wish for feature request..

Because it makes the mask system unusable for users.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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