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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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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 28 Sep '26

28 Sep '26

Howdy folks, I'll be traveling for work this week, so I won't be able to make the PLC meeting. Can someone take over running it? Thanks, Ted

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Vote: Allow Tav to work on Bug Accelerator Program
by Martin Owens 20 Aug '26

20 Aug '26

Dear PLC, I wanted pono or someone at the SFC to make this vote, but hopefully this won't step on toes as we can't wait so long to have help with the Bug Accelerator Program. Because Tav voted in favour of the funding for BAP 2026.2, the SFC want us to confirm that we want Tav to be eligible. From the hiring committee our report is that there is a cliff edge in assessed quality/qualifications after Tav and we recommend allowing Tav to fill in for Sean for 2026.2. An alternative is to require the hiring comittee to put out a request for a new applicants for the position. It will take longer to do this. Tav must abstain from this vote. Should Tav be allowed to contract for the Bug Accelerator Program 2026.2? a. Approve Tav b. Require new hires c. Don't contract anyone d. Something else Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes; Aug 17th 2026
by Martin Owens 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

Attending: Martin, Roland, Charlotte Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Roland talks about the bug accelerator program; there's new issues which have been added but the overall fix rate is keeping up and so we are focusing on the unified font browser to make sure it is working well; including some text bugs. Rolands thanks Michael and Charlotte for fixing text issues quickly. The outreach to social media for testing has been effective with some issues being closed because they have been tested by people with the right hardware. Martin reports to Roland about the vote situation to allow Tav to take over Sean's contract for the second bug accelerator position. Charlotte reports on a really old issue with LaTeX with some chars not importing and control chars. Also looking at any pdf importing or exporting. There's an issue with inverse masks which Martin advises on wrt to lpes and svg format. Martin talked about the work on the rendering engine and some of the remaining issues to get things working. Mostly now bugs with integrating with Gtk widgets and reforming certain pathways which were not designed well. Thanks everyone for comming. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes, August 9th 2026
by Martin Owens 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

Hey Everyone, Time for another weekend developer meeting. This week was a three person meeting and we bounced ideas and talked about fun vacations as well as our Inkscape topics which you can see below: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Martin, René René is back from vacation and has found a way of enabling dbus for macOS. Will be reaching out to Inkstitch to figure out how it would be useful to them and possibly other extension authors. Tav got his font code to work but is struggling to get the tests to pass. Has looked at the right to left text bugs for text line lengths. The test issues appear to be magnified by gradient issues. There's a few windows failures which René says there was a few hiccups with the CI but the jobs were restarted. Martin showed the new rendering engine's testing for Glycin integration and SVG SurfaceFactory work for handling all of Inkscape's various object and document rendering requirements. Tav and Martin talked briefly about the difficulty with rendering tests. Tav and Martin talk about Gtk's SVG support and if we are going to use icons generated by Gtk or by Inkscape and if we're being consistant. We review the Bug Accelerator program and the progress. The hiring process and the luck of the draw for getting the right people with the right skills who work well together. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vote: Bug Accelerator Flexibility
by Martin Owens 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

Dear PLC, We're about to start a new round of the Bug Accelerator Program. We don't yet have a replacement programmer for Sean, we're waitng on Pono for the go ahead to contract a replacement. Sean has actually kindly offered to help with merge request reviews as a volunteer to help cover the missing balancing we were getting between out two devs. But after talking with Roland Taylor, our issues administrator for the program; he'd like to be able to use some of the time to work on fixing issues with the new rendering engine work too. This is born out of the success of the program so far and how much help he thinks I need with the engine branch. I agreed that I could do with the help and rather than go through a whole process to hire that help, we can use the hours we've already budgeted to make sure this lands safely and with as few issues out the gate without interfering with older bugs he'd prioritise as needed. I come to you with a simmple vote: ------------- Allow Roland Taylor to schedule Bug Accelerator hours for developers to help fix issues with the new rendering engine as he sees fit according to the priorities of making Inkscape 1.5 a solid release: 1) Allow 2) Disallow 3) Something else -------------- Now that I'm mostly recovered from my appendix surgery, I'll be trying to get that second developer sorted out but pushing the SFC some more. Sorry for the delay there. Martin,

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Bug Accelerator 2026.1 Report
by Martin Owens 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

Dear PLC, This is the outline for the Bug Accelerator Project. It has been a very successful project and the people involved have been happy and productive. https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/may-2026-bug-accelerator/ https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/june-2026-bug-accelerator/ https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/july-bug-accelerator-2026/ We've fixed 130 issues, using 551.5 of the 840 budgeted hours. Our budget does not allow these hours to be reallocated within the program so this program cost us $41,362 instead of $63,000. The next phase of the program is another $63,000 budget with the same rules about not reallocating. There should be a vote soon about the replacement developer for the second phase which means I expect fewer hours might happen again depending on how quickly that can get resolved. Feedback includes: We should budget to have someone do some UX/UI testing work as we lack the experts and merge requests got delayed waiting or merged without any UX review. And the amount of time needed for the administration is closer to 20 hours than it is the 15, so future programs should budget for parity between developer time and issue admin time. Big thanks to the PLC for supporting and budgeting for this work to be done this year. And of course big thanks to Sean, Michael and Roland for their help with these bugs. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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