[LGM] lgm2012 post-release

[Craig Bradney]

On 08/05/2012, at 16:10, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 05/08/2012 09:59 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> 
>>> One (hopefully) positive thing from the Scribus side is the idea to
>>> formalize in some way discussions and interaction in general between
>>> skilled/professional users and the Scribus Team.
>> 
>> And that would be a good thing? :)
>> 
>> May I suggest another (hopefully) positive idea? Just start talking to
>> users about what you do.
>> 
>> In the last half a year you:
>> 
>> - improved InDesign importing
>> - got basics of footnotes working
>> - finished (more or less) the new tables tool
>> 
>> Those are all big news. Now, which of that got official coverage? Nothing.
>> 
>> I really have no idea what kind of interaction you want to formalize
>> if you don't tell people what you work on.
>> 
> 
> Right now, I don't know if this will be a good thing. It may come to nothing, but there were seemingly some agreements that the project needed something other than mailing list complaints or RFEs to move various ideas forward, ideas that have merit and in particular help the GUI, rather than just add features.
> 
> We haven't really had a way for added features to get some informative help when they are first created. Simply adding footnotes, adding a new table creator ends up really being a collection of decisions by the developer writing the changes, and maybe this could be improved with input from users.
> 
> This was not something I personally was putting forward; I was just an attendee at the meeting which took place.
> 
> Greg
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Those are in trunk. They will be announced when 1.5 is released.

Craig