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Developer Meeting Notes, May 15 2024
by pulsar17 16 May '24

16 May '24

Hi All, Following are the meeting notes for the dev meeting on 15th May: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Ishaan, Adam, Elendil (Krlr17), Martin, Mike, ScislaC, Tav, Vaibhav, Jonathan Next Event: May 23rd 2024 Martin: Some color refactoring work suggested by Mike Asked for some attention of the proof of concept and the method of using cairo and lcms2 to do the CMYK rendering. Ishaan: Integrated CSS support in rubberbands, some weird artifacts but some suggestions on how to fix that - look in _update, setting cache to 0 Adam: created MR to reduce size of spin buttons. Reviewed lots of MRs too. Some discussion on working color space vs rendering color space. Tav raised a concern that blending should be done in sRGB according to the SVG spec. Martin is aware that this is a departure from the spec but is required to render in CMYK. Martin asked after the Hardware program. Pono needs to contact Vaibhav and Adam Belis and has been poked. Tav and adam talk about wacom hardware crashes and the differences between 1.3 and 1.4 issues. Some discussion on automated testing of Inkscape, some suggestions. Some discussion on priorities - small papercuts over large time accumulate. A different program like BugFix Accelerator for such lower priority UX papercuts? Inbox is filled with duplicates which are not tagged as duplicates, Jonathan stumbled on clusters of those issues. Vaibhav: - Fixed some alignment and padding regressions in the toolbars. - Worked on some regressions in the star toolbar. - Spent a lot of time to implement selection across different hierarchical levels in the layers dialog. See you all next time! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting Notes, May 7th 2024
by doctormo＠geek-2.com 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hey devs, Sorry for the delay getting these notes out, hectic week of waking up early to attend the summit live feed video. Big thanks to the Renesse folks for keeping that live for the summit for Me, Jonathan and Rene. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Adam, Mikekov, Tav, Rafael, Martin, Rene, Ben, Ishaan, Frederico Mana Quintero Next Event: May 15th 2024 Team "Renesse" at the Inkscape hosted summit in France: very busy with lots of things :) Some of them being: - Improving the UX of asking users to donate in Inkscape application and website - Discussing a possible hover based workflow for fill and stroke - Possible Fill and Stroke dialog simplification - PDF Text Import Improvements - SPMarker refactoring Rene: worked on fixing Windows CI for some breaking changes introduced by Gitlab Ben: introduced themselves and asked for suggestions on programming for Inkscape, various useful suggestions offered. Martin: asked for review of his color work. Is working on bug accelerator program. For the bug accelerator program, the quality of the prioritisation of the issues is concerning and we may need to hire a triage specialist for future programs to get better use out of our programmers. We updated the extensions in 1.4.x to the latest versions during the meeting. Ishaan: The fix custom user css for handles is ready for review. Asked for a review of Styling hierarchy in "Selection improvements" Frederico was invited to talk about the work he's doing on librsvg rendering. https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/librsvg/devel-docs/render_tree.html some of the same issues apply to inkscape's renderer with cairo. Frederico was shown our renderer stack in case there's things to learn from the way with do bounding box calculations. See you all next time! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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About Screen Contest: Inkscape Contributor Voting
by Kyle R. Conway 06 May '24

06 May '24

Calling all Inkscape Contributors! It's time for you to cast your votes for the Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest! Round one has elevated 5 artworks into top contention as favorites from the Inkscape community with 855 total ranked votes from 251 voters. As Inkscape Contributors, you are the final panel of judges to vote for their favorites to award the next winner of the About Screen Contest that will be featured in the next release! Voting begins Monday, April 22, 2024 and ends at 11:59 UTC on Monday, April 29, 2024, so be certain to cast your vote soon! How does this work? We're using ranked choice voting, which means you can vote for many artworks. Click the checkbox on any artworks you'd like to vote for from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least. They'll be re-arranged from your top selection to your bottom. Vote for as many or as few of the entries as you'd like! (Each Inkscape Contributor may only vote for each artwork once). Cast your vote here: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… These are the 5 items the community voting elevated for the final round (in alphabetical order): - "Creative Growth“ by Chris Hildenbrand - "Expand Your Creative Universe" by Chris Hildenbrand - "Inkscape's Path-Artist's Blossom" by Inkonic - "Draw your world" by Kess - "Vibe On Creators" by NDIM DONALD Step 1: Make sure that you are an Inkscape Member (see previous message or link below), and if you're not one yet, apply for membership and ask 3 of your team mates or other contributors whom you have worked with to confirm your membership. More info: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ Step 2: Visit https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… and rank the 5 images by clicking on the little circle right below them in order of preference (most liked first). Thanks for all of your work on Inkscape! Kyle

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 03 May '24

03 May '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/285 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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