October 2026 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Developer Meeting Notes: Oct 20th 2026
by Martin Owens 20 Oct '26

20 Oct '26

Hey everyone! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Alex Holst, Mike, Tav, Roland Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ (Wed 28th) Roland has been working on the main wind down for the bug accelerator program. His personal assessment is that the 1.5 release is pretty solid, but there's remaining issues cropping up. Maren reported some great issues to look into yesterday and there's some remaining issues such as the connectors tool which we should decide to depricate. Martin asked Tav about the process of depricating things like the connectors tool. Tav says Marc would have a lot to say aout this and LPEs in general. Martin has a replacement tool that was never finished. Roland asked about plugins and the ability to split out LPE codebases. Martin and Tav explained the history and the present state of these items. And we discuss some of the possible ideas for organising these functionalities. Roland asks about a more sophisticated flatten. Tav; has been working on the pdf export for text decoration. He wanted to ask Martin about flattening. Tav asks Roland about emoji fonts and them not working in 1.5. There's an update from René needed for the windows CI and then that should fix the remaining issues. Roland wants to test the font support. Mike has been working on blocker issues for 1.5. Martin asks about the stability and the blocking, and if we can get to a good release. Martin is working on the color picker preferences and pulling out the trait system so we can properly loop through categories of color spaces and not have to drive everything through lists of color spaces themselves. Alex is introduced to help with the website administration on the website to get it back on its feet from all the AI bots. Alex has some things to try. Martin will be introducing him to the website after the meeting. Martin and Roland talk about how to better present its main website. It's possible design directions for the main website and the possibility of integrating the desktop software with urls and other integrations into the software. Thanks everyone for coming,

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Project Administrator (Draft Contract)
by Martin Owens 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

Dear PLC, As discussed at meetings and in chat, I have put together a draft proposal for continuing to contract Roland Taylor for the role of project administrator. Please see the attached PDF file ahead of the plc meeting in 45mins (sorry for the short time to read it, it's not long) where we can discuss and redraft if needed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: Oct 12th 2026
by Martin Owens 12 Oct '26

12 Oct '26

Hi everyonne, After a few weeks of quiet, this week we're back to having enough people to make notes in our developer meeting and send them out.. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Tav, Mc, Roland, Michael Terry, Vaibhav Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ We talked about the release for 1.5, it's atability and the focus on fixing bugs. Martin asked Roland to focus on identifying blocking bugs so we can get a sense on where we are for the final push after the alpha. The alpha is still planned for the end of october. Marc is available. Martin and Tav finish a discussion about capypdf and text decoration. Involving the handling of styles. Michael has been fixing 1.5 bugs and feels the release is in better shape and a lot of the bugs we're fixing is not just regressions in 1.4 but also issues in previous releases. Some crashes reported but it seems very stable to developers. Roland reports there are a lot of issues which are not replicatable. For the cursor issue Marc suggests checking the actual images on the install. Martin asks Marc if he would save crash logs tot he disk so we can ask them to dig up the crash logs after the fact. Roland asks if its possible to have an annonymous reporting to avoid users having to register gitlab as this is a major blocker for a lot of user reporting of especially crashes. We talk about some of the internal systems we might like to have that could report crashes when they happen and how those could be agregated and then moved into issues. Vaibhav has joined us to make sure we have the flatpak package on time. Martin asks about publishing the alpha on flatpak and coordinating with Marc for the release. Tav asks Mc about when he would know he can host an Inkscape Summit event. Marc needs to ask but needs to have dates for when would be good. Tav indicates that before or after FOSDEM would be ideal. For five days, basically a full week. We will hope to avoid industrial action. Martin talked about being stuck with the rendering engine and has decided to put it aside for now to avoid burnout. Instead is focuusing on Color user interface work and fixing the text input problems reported by Maren. Roland asked about what testing would be the most helpful. Filters being the main one. Big thanks to everyone who was able to make today's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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