February 2024 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Vote: Apple Developer Renewal 2023
by Jonathan Neuhauser 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Dear all, it's this time of the year again! Background: ----------- René de Hesselle (RdH) has been preparing our OSX builds for a while, to do that he needs to be able to sign them with an Apple Developer Account. We have reimbursed him last year for this account so that he could continue to sign builds for Inkscape. This is to renew that account so he can continue to sign OSX builds. Proposal: --------- Reimburse RdH for the membership renewal expenses for Apple's developer program. This is estimated to cost 99€. Votes: ------ a. Reimburse RdH for the program b. No, cease participation in Apple's Developer Program c. Other: ________ Best regards, Jonathan

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LGM and "Inkfest"
by tavmjong＠free.fr 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hi, Please add to tomorrow's agenda: We've talked about having an Inkscape event to be held just before LGM (Thursday, 9th - Sunday, 12th May Rennes, France https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2024/). I've contacted Cedric (LGM organizer and long-time Inkscape community member) about space and he indicted it wouldn't be a problem. To organize the fest we need to make some decisions: 1. What the event should be called? (Inkfest?) 2. Who do we invite with what level of support? (Developers, Vectors, Translators, Users?) 3. Dates? (Monday 6th through Wednesday 8th?) 4. Budget ($20,000?) At the Bensberg hackfest we had 11 attendees with a budget of $20,000. At the Saarbrucken hackfest we had 13 attendees, of which 10 received Inkscape funding up to $2000 per person. Bensberg hackfest: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Hackfest2023_Bensberg Saarbrucken hackfest page: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Hackfest2019_Saarbr%C3%BCcken 2020 Rennes hackfest page (never finished): https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Hackfest2020_Rennes Tav

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Developer Meeting: Feb 25th 2024
by Martin Owens 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Dear Devs, Big thanks to everyone who came to our meeting and all the new faces who came to talk about their work this week with us. Also thanks to everyone who stuck around for 2 HOURS! We got through some deep talk and a bunch of merge requests in our backlog (see below) Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mansi, Marc, MikeKov, pbs, Rafael, Siddhant Agarwal, Tav, Vaibhav Malik, Ishaan Next Meeting: March 4th 2024 = Website DDOS Situation Martin talked about the DDos attack against the website and reported what happened and what things have been put in place to help bring it back. The website is still being attacked today. (two days) = Gtk4 Work PBS builds a Gtk4 app image and we can get the CI to build it. Currently we use an old ubuntu for app image and a newer ubuntu for other builds. We can actually get over this if we use a new tool introduced for building app images. Philip would like to hand this work onto another developer if we can find someone who's interested in the work. Some bugs fixed in the gtk4 branch. There's some bugs which were fixed in gtk4 branch but not merged into master and he's working on finding them and porting them. = Testing PBS reports that since we upgraded to C++20, the 2geom code coverage isn't working any more. It'll need to be fixed or disabled. = Release Schedules We talked a lot about release schedules, if other teams are seeing our plans and are in sync with us. How hard our deadlines are and why we use strctured releases in our project to help keep things moving and keep contributions going out to users etc. Many more details were covered casually. Vaibhav wanted to talk about test coverage and how we can improve our automated testing. He's also been working on some regressions related to toolbars migration and regressions related to context menu selection logic. = Packaging Marc is working on a complete rework of the debian packaging stuff, separating stuff in multiple packages, no more "inkscape-trunk" incompatibilities, no more "separate branch" with deps. = Color Refactoring PBS, Mikekov and Rafael helped reviewing Martin's large color refactoring merge request and work through some of the issues as well as explaining how it's structured. Martin made a video to explain the outline and the other developers were able to review the various issues and how it needs to be improved going forwards. = Other Work PBS wants to finish the command line bitmap tracing branch for 1.4, somebody made a fork of inkscape and replaced the gui with a command line and someone else then tried backporting that back into inkscape to give us command line bitmap tracing. Mikekov has pushed a bunch of small bug fixes. There are so many things that have changed in 1.4 and there's some concerns that the refactoring will cause instability and we may not have the bug fixing resources. Mansi will be wrapping up revamping of filter gallery with one more mr :) (most of them have been fixed). Apart from them diving deep into rendering of selection tool and trying to figure out the cause of the issue - selection tool corner handles off by a small amount Siddhant wanted to ask about livarot functionality and the lib2geom GSoC and wanted to know what work had already been done. = Group Activity: Merge Request Review We work on our merge requests backlog as there is a large number of merge requests (90!) that need to be either merged or closed. We got through 9 of them today. --------------------------- Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape lagging
by Finn Downey 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

> > > : > > > > > > > > > > > Hello Inkscape. My name is Finn Downey. And I have been using Inkscape to make a drawing but I am having a slight problem. > It seems that the bigger my drawing gets, the slower the website seems to act. I mean whenever I try to move a whole bunch of objects at once, it just moves so slowly. I have tried pretty much everything to get it to work the way it should. I tried using layers and even changing the Gaussian blur quality and filter effect quality to their lowest quality which is said to be the fastest. I have even tried cleaning my computer but nothing seems to work. Do you know what is wrong and if there is anything that can be done to fix these problems? Is there any chance you could even give the program some kind of overhaul so it keeps moving at the right speed no matter how much stuff is on the screen? because I feel that would be really great. > > Thank you kindly! > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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[VOTE] Bugfix accelerator 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

Dear PLC, the developer team requests to repeat the sucessful 2023 Bugfix accelerator program in 2024 with a few upgrades as discussed in last week's developer meeting. Background: see attached document, but to give you a summary of the changes: * No fixed list of contractors at the time of the vote; instead Call for applications like with the GTK4 internal contractor + hiring team. * Scenario of a contractor dropping out is explicitly covered; extension for the 1.4.x release series contained in the proposal. * Clarification that the selection of issues to work on is done primarily by the project. * Simplification of contract section. As for other major expenses from contracting in 2024, my grants proposal is still awaiting SFC review. Ballot: a) Repeat the bugfix accelerator program under the conditions outlined in the proposal; allocate USD 20'000 to it. b) No bugfix accelerator program in 2024. c) Other: ______ Best regards, Jonathan ___________________

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