May 2006 - Inkscape Announcements

[Inkscape] Inkscape 0.44pre1
by Bryce Harrington 30 May '06

30 May '06

----- Forwarded message from Aaron Spike <aaron@...32...> ----- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:12:19 -0500 From: Aaron Spike <aaron@...32...> To: inkscape <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, inkscape testers list <inkscape-tester(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] 0.44pre1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just uploaded the tarball for 0.44pre1. Please package and test. Thanks again to rwst for help with distcheck. Aaron Spike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEfHzz1wsJX4VXgboRAimrAJ43wL1+gZ55lHdiR/aIMGFK5r4v2wCgwQo/ wwVEaqvE56XetZ76L4u7iho= =3mOq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Inkscape] Feature Freeze for Inkscape 0.44
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi all, This is to announce that we are now officially moving into Feature Freeze. At this time, feature development work on HEAD should cease, in favor of bug fixing work. Any bug fixing work is welcomed. I will be maintaining a list of must-fix bugs, which I will publish within the next day. If you'd like to continue feature development work, you're encouraged to do so on an SVN branch. (If you don't know how to create a branch in SVN, just ask!) ACSpike will publish a -pre0 release ASAP. We will encourage all users to help us test out pre-releases and report issues found. Thank you to all who have been helping Aaron sort out distcheck issues! I would also like to take this chance to thank lucychili for her work at triaging our bug list. There are still some bugs left to be ranked, but due to her work we're close to having them fully ranked. Bryce

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[Inkscape] Announcing the 2006 Summer of Code Projects
by Bryce Harrington 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi all! Today was the final day for the Google Summer of Code proposal rankings. As you can imagine, a number of us inkscaper's have been in deep, intensive discussions and votes to arrive at the final prioritization. The final decision of which 4 to select was extremely difficult, and really came down to the wire. A large part of the controversy was whether to have both of the SVG filter projects in the top 4, or to go with 4 distinct projects. But just then, in an amazing stroke of luck, Google was kind enough to allocate an additional project to Inkscape, increasing us to 5 slots! :-) Thus, our final project selection is as follows: Application Student Mentor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SVG Filter Effects #1 Niko Kiirala Bulia Inkboard Protocol Spec / Lib Conversion Dale Harvey David Yip PDF Export with Cairo Mikos Erdelyi Ted Gould Memory Optimization Marina Diezler MenTaLguY SVG Filter Effects #2 Hugo Rodrigues Bulia As I understand it, one of the SVG filter projects will be focused on the internal handling of filters at the SPObject level, the other will be focused on the rendering of the filters. Thank you to everyone who applied this year. There were a number of excellent projects, and arriving at the final selection was extremely tough. Many of the proposed ideas were extremely cool and we would love to see them developed, and would love to be able to welcome the applicants to be part of the Inkscape community. Many criteria went into our final decision, more than can be easily related. However, one of the driving considerations was for work we felt would maximize the benefit to Inkscape users. We know from user feedback that these projects, if completed successfully, will have a transformational effect on Inkscape as an application - by the end of this summer, Inkscape will likely be a light-year ahead of where it is today. Bryce

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