- Inkscape Board of Directors

FOSDEM Travel Grants
by Jonathan Neuhauser 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

Dear all, ==== Background ==== as discussed during yesterday's board meeting, I propose to cover the travel expenses for project members who want to attend fosdem. ==== Travel grants ==== The Inkscape Project is offering travel grants to help Inkscape developers and community members attend FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Grants are intended to help cover travel expenses and boost the project’s representation at this important conference. * The Inkscape Project will issue grants up to a maximum of USD 500 per person and will spend a maximum of USD 5000 in total. * Any person listed as Inkscape Member on the project website at the time of their application is eligible. * Grants will be issued on a first-come, first-serve basis. * To request a grant, send an email with your estimated travel costs to to the PLC at inkscape(a)sfconservancy.org by (latest!) January 31st, 2023. A decision about the grant will be sent to you shortly after, so you can proceed to book the tickets. * If travel by train is available, train should be used preferably instead of plane; apart from this, the most economic option should be used. * After FOSDEM, submit your travel receipts to and from FOSDEM to the PLC. You will be reimbursed for expenses up to the grant amount you requested, but it might not happen immediately. Please be mindful of other’s financial needs (i.e. don’t request a grant of $500 if your train costs $100) and the project’s resources. We look forward to meeting you in Brussels! ==== What the PLC needs to do ==== For every incoming email, check whether the applicant is a member and there is budget available. If yes, reply that the grant is approved. (If no one else wants, I can handle that.) ==== BALLOT ==== a) Approve the Travel grants program for FOSDEM 2024 as described above, and allocate a total budget of $5000 for it. b) No Travel grants for FOSDEM 2024. c) Other, please elaborate As usual, PLC members should abstain if they plan to request a grant themselves. Best regards Jonathan

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Inkscape 1.3.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 18 Nov '23

18 Nov '23

Inkscape 1.3.1 ============== Inkscape 1.3.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.3.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, fixing lots of crashes and bugs, and improving on the node count when using the shape builder. You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3.1 Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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You're invited to celebrate Inkscape's 20th Anniversary with us!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

Hello Everyone! Please join us in celebrating Inkscape's 20th Anniversary on Saturday, November 18, at 12:00 UTC (Session 1) and / or 18:00 UTC (Session 2) in our BBB room [1]. You'll hear Inkscape stories from fellow contributors, learn about the history of the project, and ask questions, too! We look forward to seeing you there! https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/ink-5ky-kre-jar Inkscape Vectors 1) The Big Blue Button room (hosted by Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Télécom Paris) will open at the above times.

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You're invited to participate in Inkscape's 20th Anniversary Party – RSVP
by Maren Hachmann 11 Nov '23

11 Nov '23

Hello fellow Inkscape Contributors! We're planning a couple of informal online sessions on Saturday, November 18 to celebrate Inkscape's 20th anniversary. We'd love to know if you can make it. And if you might want to participate. Click on the link and let us know! Thank you! https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/apps/forms/s/PbZwCdJZoDiGTL… Inkscape Vectors

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Congratulations, Inkscape!
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

Dear Inkscape Contributors, today, the Inkscape project celebrates its 20th anniversary. 20 years ago, it started out as a fork from the sodipodi project, with this email from Bryce: https://web.archive.org/web/20140110200622/https://sourceforge.net/p/sodipo… For this special day, Vectors have given the Community the opportunity to send their messages to you, the contributors. Please find the community's messages to you here: https://inkscape.gitlab.io/inkscape-docs/awesome-web-pages/20th_anniversary/ Happy 20th Anniversary! Maren

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Re: Inkscape: taking over MacStadium
by René de Hesselle 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Hi Patrick, glad to hear from you! :) We noticed that the runner went offline like two weeks ago, but it was certainly not inactive. While we’re shifting CI towards GitLab’s fleet, I’d still put our MacStadium resources to good use. If there are any left, that is :/ If you have any kind of emails or contact info, please send it my way. Because MacStadium’s open source pages can only be found via Google and all their links regarding their open source program are defunct. To me it looks like they have shut it down, there is no way to register at this time. I have already sent them an email about this, but the email address they provided is a very general one and I’m not sure if I’ll ever get a response that way. I hope I can salvage something. Thank you for your time - for now, eMail is sufficient, but I’ll reach out via chat if things get complicated. René > Am 27.10.2023 um 21:44 schrieb Patrick Storz <eduard.braun2(a)gmx.de>: > > Hi René, > > I'm fine, thanks for asking! Hope you're doing fine these days as well! > > I'm more than happy to share the credentials for MacStadium and (if you > can make use of them) the scripts I used to set-up our runner instance. > > I'm afraid however that our server might already have been shut down due > to inactivity (tbh I had assumed the project had long shifted to > something else since I did not hear anything in a long time and > therefore did not make an effort to reach out when MacStadium sent some > mails recently), so maybe the easiest way is to re-register a FOSS account? > > Either way just let me know what you need from my end and I'm happy to > help where I can (by mail is fine, but Chat works too, if you want to > discuss synchronously at some point!) > > Cheers > Patrick > > > Am 22.10.2023 um 13:39 schrieb René de Hesselle: >> Hi Patrick, >> >> I hope you are well! >> >> You are the single point of contact for MacStadium and our Windows runner and >> we need to shift these responsibilities to someone who is more active in the >> project. I hope you understand that this is by no means a personal critique >> but just „business as usual“ that we need to take care of our resources. >> >> I am taking over these responsibilities, so I need the MacStadium contact info >> and credentials from you. With these I’m going to contact MacStadium and inform >> them of the handover and have your personal info exchanged with mine where >> applicable. >> >> I do not have encrypted email, I suggest that you put all the info and credentials >> into a KeePass database (e.g. https://keepassxc.org/) and I’ll provide you my >> mobile number where you can text me the password. >> >> This initial email goes to the board list so people are informed, but do not >> send your reply there (even if password protected, I do not feel comfortable with >> this kind of exchange over a mailing list). >> >> Looking forward to hearing from you, >> >> René

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Inkscape: taking over MacStadium
by René de Hesselle 22 Oct '23

22 Oct '23

Hi Patrick, I hope you are well! You are the single point of contact for MacStadium and our Windows runner and we need to shift these responsibilities to someone who is more active in the project. I hope you understand that this is by no means a personal critique but just „business as usual“ that we need to take care of our resources. I am taking over these responsibilities, so I need the MacStadium contact info and credentials from you. With these I’m going to contact MacStadium and inform them of the handover and have your personal info exchanged with mine where applicable. I do not have encrypted email, I suggest that you put all the info and credentials into a KeePass database (e.g. https://keepassxc.org/) and I’ll provide you my mobile number where you can text me the password. This initial email goes to the board list so people are informed, but do not send your reply there (even if password protected, I do not feel comfortable with this kind of exchange over a mailing list). Looking forward to hearing from you, René

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Developer Meeting Oct 20th 2023
by Martin Owens 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Dear Inkscape Community, Here are the meeting notes from today's developer meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Present: S.Ouchene, Martin, Tav, Marc, Krlr17, MikeKov, Jabier, Jonathan, René Next Meeting: October 28th # Gtk4 Tav has been working on the File Fialogs. When investigating the code there appear to be so many classes which at first seem like it's too many, but it's actually a permutation of open, save, windows, gtk. The real problem is the mixed up way they're written. The new Gtk4 dialogs all return Gio::File objects, and we should be using these more within our own code to avoid the conversions between std::string and Glib::ustring. Issues with the filter drop-down, keeping things in sync. Probably get rid of the win32 dialogs. Martin suggests not spending too much time trying to keep functionality which we will probably have to redesign anyway or that would take a ton of work to support. Especially if it involves hacking the Gtk widget tree in the dialog which is prone to errors. # Building and Infrastructure Marc asked Rene why the macstatium runner doesn't any more, it's blocking the 1.3.x branch. Rene wasn't aware of any issues, but to cope with it we can migrate it to the normal windows runners. There are some permissions issues to work out between Rene and Patrick to make sure the machines are accessible by more people as Rene doesn't have access to the machine Checking out CI minutes. We're ok, but cutting it close with the amount of spare minutes. Marc wanted to ask about a specific merge request related to building and CI. A short explanation about windows docker. Although this is probably not available to GitLab, but worth checking out as downloads of depedencies take the longest time in our builds and cutting this part out would be very good. Rene has been working on dependency updates. Looking into Gtk3 and 4 deps. Especially regarding libadwaita which is complicated to build with deps that don't build yet on macOS. Working through the depedency stack, for example cairo has made all their symbols private like poppler. This is worth keeping in mind when we use private symbols. Brief talk about the use of font config and freetype uses in inkscape. Libjpeg-turbo claims to be much faster than regular jpeg library. It's supposed to be compatible and more capable. Rene is interested because jpeg is built really early. Mike says it has asembler instructions for intel and wonders if this would work on macOS. Rene will make a test to try it out. # Next Version (1.3) Martin talked about his 1.3.x backporting work, some basic requests for how to tag merge requests for the backport and the target dates. All work should be completed by the end of the month giving people enough time to test 1.3.1rc1 (or similar). Jabier has finished helping with the fixes for LPE crashes and offers to help with the backporting process. But he has some worries about possible regressions from his fixes in the LPE code and asks for help testing the LPEs. Marc provides a crash issue and asks about if it's fixed. # Color Refactoring Martin has been working on doing the color refactoring. There are two main ideas, the first is to make sure colors that use profiles are tied to their profiles using a URIHandler, so we can see what objects are in use and clean them up. We can also use this to make a list of used colors for the palettes. The second is to support different spaces and not convert everything to sRGB in order to store the numbers in our code. An icc profile is not required to specify a different color space, and we should be able to output css4 like colors (for example hsl(...)) Marc shared an older merge request with his work on refactoring and Martin said this would be useful to compare it all. Mike asked for a location for color profiles and we talked breifly about color profile data. # Other Business Mikekov has been helping with merge requests. Jonthan has been waiting on feedback for the grants proposal. We'll be meeting with pono on Monday after a two week gap in SFC meetings for various things. Big thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting. You don't have to dress up to attend next week's developer meeting. It's a Saturday and attendance is lower, so we might just have a social or may just talk about 1.3, depending on the crowd. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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VOTE: Contract extension for dboles
by Jonathan Neuhauser 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

Dear PLC, this is a vote to extend Daniel Boles' contract for another two months (320 hours) and allocate additional budget at the request of the development team. Background: - Daniel was originally hired for the GTK4 migration. This is making good progress: as of now, the development team estimates that a first version of Inkscape that builds with GTK4 will be available around the time his current contract ends. - By all accounts, the progress has been very steady, also including general code cleanups which however did not distract him from his main task. We were impressed by his knowledge, speed, and contribution quality. By now, Daniel has 174 MRs merged. - However, there are will be no more hours to spend for debugging, fixing regressions, and upstream bugs. Daniel now has in-depth knowledge of Inkscape's codebase as well as his GTK4 expertise. He would be a very valuable asset going forward, so we feel it would be great to have him available for some additional time. - He has expressed interest to take on a permanent position somewhere and in that case would finish the contract part-time. This might be an even better deal for us, as he can take on a "consultant / technical support" role, on an as-needed basis, e.g. fixing difficult bugs and helping other contributors to move their work to GTK4. This is possible under the terms of his (current) contract: it allows to submit invoices over the course of a year, for a total of 320 hours. The same model would apply to the extension of his contract. - If he - which we currently don't expect - runs out of work related to GTK4, there's enough other technical debt that he can work on. Ballot: a) Extend Daniel Boles' contract for another two months (320 hours) under the same conditions as his previous contracts; the work items will be (ordered by priority, as time permits) - finishing the GTK4 migration, - fix regressions in the GTK4 build of Inkscape, including upstream work, - assist other contributors in updating their work for GTK4 if requested, - work on other technical debt in the Inkscape codebase and allocate $16,000 for his compensation. b) Don't extend Daniel Boles' contract. c) Other: ______ Best regards, Jonathan

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Meeting notes; October 4th 2023
by Martin Owens 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hey Everyone, Thanks to those who were able to make today's develop meeting Attending: Alezzacreative, Jonathan, Marc, Martin, Krlr17, Ishaan, Tav Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: 12th October 2023 # FOSSSDem FOSSDem call for dev rooms. We need to decide if we're going to team up with another project, the room is mostly focused on presentation and on technical and development side. So we expect technical presentations and would need to be able to fill the room for at least half a day. Martin asked Marc to head up organing the effort so we have a main person who can act as the driver and ask other projects. # Packaging Marc has some packaging stuff to take care of for Linux; a bunch of issues to look at in the coming week. Martin wanted to know about the backports task, Jonathan suggested to do the testing for each of the issues to make sure it's all working. One month to go before the release and is still the plan, Martin will tell vectors so they have time. Krlr17 reports that the windows builds are not available on the website currently. Marc knows about the issue. # Grant Prooposal Jonathan reports back his meeting with pono about the grants funding project; he has found that we wouldn't ever be able to a hybrid system of allowing users to donate towards specific projects. But without that part of the proposal it would still be possible to attract donations for the global fund. # Gtk4 Migration Tav has been doing more Gtk4 stuff, trying to deal with some filename issues. It's much more particular about conversing std string and Glib::ustring classes. It's a bit tough as it's a windows specific issue because filenames are stored on windows as UTF16 but UTF8 on linux and mac. Tav is working on a script to make Images Gtk4 compatible. Daniel has been progressing on small items, still working on both his Gtk4 branch and bringing things into master when they can be. We reviewed the Gtk4 contract progress, the amount of money we're spending down and the type of work being done within the terms of the contract. Martin has talked about the merge conflicts that are happening, mostly he's holding onto large feature merge requests. Other developers might be waiting for the Gtk4 work to complete before developing new things. # Color Management System Martin gave a talk about his CMS work, the user interface, color picking the kinds of assumptions and workflows. And how to use color seperation. Other developers were very helpful in confirming if these designs and approaches are correct. Thanks for reading! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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