Hi All I've been using FLOSS for over 11 years now. I think there is confusion about stable, developmental, unstable, as different OSS applications call their software by different names, meaning some or all of the above. Then there are alphas, betas, and RC's. And as we all know the quality of one project's Alpha may sometimes supercede another project's Beta or even RC. And again, one person's annoyance as a bug, is someone else's absolute showstopper.
Personally, I think Scribus is a wonderful project with the friendliest most open and helpful ML there is. But where I really think the Scribus project fails, is underselling it. IMHO, 1.4 really should be version 2. I know it's really too late now, but such a major change in look and feel, text rendering speed .... really should be more than just a 0.2 change. No way does it outline the huge benefits there are using 1.4 to 1.3.3.14. I think I started with Scribus version 0.4 or 0.7 which had about a year between them. 1.0 followed within another year or so. 1.2 soon after. It really has been a long time since the 1.3.3 series To get user uptake it depends on great software, (which Scribus is), but also telling people, 'ie 'marketing' your software and message, and I think this is one of the few areas that really could/should be improved upon..... If I could code, I would help ... I do however do my bit for Scribus and FLOSS by featuring it regularly in our LUG and our regular events to the general public ... where they get to see great DTP needn't not cost the earth .. -- Kind Regards, Julian Robbins
