--- author: '' category: '' date: 2012/12/13 22:11:51 description: '' link: '' priority: '' slug: rst2pdf-progress tags: python, rst2pdf title: Rst2pdf progress type: text updated: 2012/12/13 22:11:51 url_type: '' --- I have set for myself a priority list of bugs that bother me in `rst2pdf `_, my tool to convert restructured text into PDFs in order of decreasing shamefulness. I have been fixing a few today (early morning + late night hack) so the following is now correct: * Use of included stylesheets * Vertical spacing of indented lineblocks * Use of :target: in figure directives There are `46 open issues `_ but I am not planning on fixing them all. My personal hitlist has 10 more bugs in it, but regardless of how many I fix, I intend to release anyway, because: * Last release is broken with latest reportlab * Last release is a bit broken with docutils 0.10 which will be out soon * Last release was over six months ago And that last one is the critical one. Working at Canonical has shown me that release cadence is good. Specially in a project where trunk is very rarely broken (like rst2pdf) there is no reason for slow release cycles. Rst2pdf should release **monthly.** I fully intend to take that approach, so the next release will be done on December 21st.