- Inkscape Board of Directors

VOTE: Remaining funds in the Bugfix Accelerator Program 2023
by Jonathan Neuhauser 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Dear PLC, In the meeting with Pono on June 14*, the present PLC members have discussed* the extension of the bugfix accelerator program, and based on this discussion, I've created the following ballot. *Background* The PLC has previously allocated a total of USD 20.000 for both contractors, but Rafael dropped out very early into his contract. On the other hand, Martin has made huge efforts to get the 1.3 release as smooth as possible, fixing - if my stats are correct - 52 issues within the contract, including 2 blockers and 10 crashes. (You can see the progress over time on this page: https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/milestones/11#tab-issues) With this vote, I propose to repurpose the funds that have already been reserved for the Bugfix accelerator program for a contract extension for Martin so that he can fix issues at the project's discretion for the bugfix releases of the 1.3.x series. This is based on the understanding that the contract is not intended to pay for Inkscape development per se, but for the project's ability to decide which bugs the contractor work will work on. This includes issues outside of the contractors "comfort zone", as was the case with the already-fixed issues. Regarding a possible repetition of the bugfix accelerator next year: a poll will be conducted to find out how uses perceive our recent efforts to spend the project's resources, and where they would like to see our resources go. Much like the internal GTK contractor position, we would properly advertise the job posting on the mailing list, and have an open call for applications (from within the active developers). * As per the SFC Conflict of Interest policy, Martin was not present during this part of the meeting. He has stated that he would be available. *Ballot*: a. Extend Martin's contract under the terms of the Bugfix Accelerator Program 2023. The contract volume will not exceed the remaining budget allocated to the Bugfix Accelerator Program 2023. b. Do not extend the Bugfix Accelerator Program 2023, the remaining funds are deallocated. c. Other: _____ Best regards, Jonathan

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Stipend Policy
by Ted Gould 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Howdy folks, Updating finances for Friday's meeting and noticing that we have a few open stipend opportunities that folks have decided not to take. No criticism there, but we have no way to close them off our books (and I don't feel I can do so unilaterally). It feels like to me that they should have an expiration similar to the SFC travel policy, which is 90 days. Would folks support that as a policy? Or do we think it should just be included when allocating them? Or just a "clean up" vote every few months? I'm open to whatever, just trying to clean up our books. Ted

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Developer Meeting Notes: June 22nd 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

Dear Developer Team. Date: 22nd June 2023 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, René, Sanodhya, Tav, Mikekov, Nicco Next Meeting: 30th June 2023 Since last week's announcement from René that he was taking over the windows CI building process he wanted to walk us through the CI builds and demonstrating the builder on GitLab. There are two windows items in the build system list, a build step which builds all of the binary objects and then three parallel distribution steps for the nsis, 7zip and exe installer objects. Before this work the windows CI was the same as macOS, and it was disabled for people outside of the inkscape project itself. But now it's open to everyone who creates branches of inkscape. René asks where the best place to put documentation about the new system. The change in the deps collection means changing msys2installdeps.sh no longer changes the deps that the CI builder will use. Martin recommended putting breadcrumb links in the main repository and full documentation in the new windows CI deps repository to explain how everything works. Tav has worked on a couple of things. Replaced context menus with new Gtk4 stuff and it's been a little frustrating with things that are different. There's a units context menu on rulers, but it has one problem, it's using actions which are radio buttons and when you pop up a context menu with radio buttons it doesn't automatically pop down. We'll leave it like this for now. Everything has to be converted to using Gio menus and that will take some time. One context menu was removed from the svg font dialog which wasn't very discoverable. Next a drop down issue which was presented by mikekov where we have multiple columns and Tav looked into the new Gtk DropDown Gtk4 object and we can replace the Listview inside it with a GridView object. There's some fragility which might prevent us from replacing ComboBoxes correctly. There's a ListItem disconnection problem that he's trying to fix. The Interactive Gtk debugger is a god send for this work. The new Gtk4 expert starts on the 1st of the month. Nicco, trying to get into the work again and it's working out well. Has been working on parsing and doing a pair programming session with Jonathan and now have a complete raster support. Jonathan did some extensions refactoring trying to change the internal data structures for paths to improve the performance with numpy especially for large paths but keeping the API the same. Mikekov requests a fix to one of the extensions, the layout extensions needs one line added to fix missing deps problems. Martin says this extension should be moved from an effect extension to a template extension to prevent the crash and be more applicable. Otherwise he's been playing with grids, the new modular grid which is quite popular as a new feature on social media. Martin has been working on improving the shape builder tool with new semi-transparent canvas options controllable with a slider and a working shape builder fracturing process for raster images. These are in heavy draft and aren't ready for a merge request. Sanidhya has been working on their GSoC project. Pono is setting up a weekly meeting, but the details are yet to be confirmed. Likely after the SFC's conference. Martin will be in Barcelona next week at PenpotFest talking about Editable SVG. Jonathan is charged with running the next meeting, but it might be a quiet social if folk are unavailable. This week's group task was going through old merge requests; we looked at five WIP requests which are now old and possibly not useful. One was assigned to Martin to review and the rest were closed. Thanks everyone for coming. Hope everyone is having a great summer. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer meeting notes for June 14th 2023
by Martin Owens 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hi everyone, Date: Wednesday June 14th 2023 Attending: Martin, René, Mikekov, Nicco, Tav, Jonathan, Julia Johannesen Next Meeting: Thursday June 22nd 2023 Tav has been investigating color management as well as all the Gtk4 work. Tav, showed us a Firefox bug that doesn't apply the profile correctly, using the Red to Green profile on the screen showed only img tags were flipped. But the rest of the web page's colors are not flipped. Martin suggest that if the ICC profile is applied twice then you would get a complete inversion in Firefox showing normal colors. This may or may not be the issue in Firefox, but it brings us to Inkscape. Double correction may effect us in Inkscape when we set a screen profile. Between wayland, x11, win32, osx and how Inkscape transforms it's own canvas for rendering. Pulling in ICC profiles automatically from the screen seems like the wrong approach anyway since the screen should already be color corrected anyway and almost guarantees a double conversion. Tav would like us to eventually end up with multiple monitor support in our configuration settings and allow per monitor ICC profiles. But only manually. Some monitor features are only supported in Wayland, so x11 may not detect the monitor the app is on correctly, Tav is still researching the issues. Martin wanted to talk about a simplified story of color management to help himself and other developers understand what it is color management is for, and hopefully allow us to know the terms. He says at the moment he imagines three basic sections of color management in Inkscape. The screen Profile which is typically in RGB changes the canvas rendering, The Device Profile which is used for PDF output (when we support that) and showing out of gamut errors on the screen and the individual Color Selector profiles which aren't anything to do with either displaying colors and are only sometimes important for printing. Their first job is to allow the user to select colors within the color space, say selecting a CMYK color profile would allow the user to select a CMYK color reliably. The second function of individual color profiles is to select spot colors and unique inks, foils, etc. this information IS passed onto PDF output, but is also important to let the user select for example how much of that ink to show for example. Tav says everyone is confused about color management online, not just in Inkscape. So it's important for us to understand the whole system and hopefully write some documentation about it. René is assuming control of the windows CI builder. The last contributor who was interested was a long time ago, so René is taking control of it. For a first step he's taken all the tutorials, guides and all the things we tell users about how to do things for windows. This is used in René's new GitHub account which builds Inkscape using the msys2 on the GitHub CI builders. GitHub was used because the machines are more powerful and are set up is better. For example using ccache and take a lot less time to run and even then it's 20 minutes for each correction. A new project has been created in GitLab which collects all the deps into an archive so we have a mechanism to counteract the rolling release model in msys2 which causes us a lot of rolling pain. Pinning the versions in msys to make the builds more dependable during development processes. Martin asked that this new project be moved to the deps group in GitLab. René's GitLab now has a new build step which is being tested for a few weeks to get used to it. This should fix the hacky setup we currently have with rerunning builds when they quit half way through. We should end up with two separate jobs. Estimated time frame for improvements is between 3 and 6 months depending on how things go. Jonathan thanks René for taking responsibility for the windows builds and is wondering about how this effects Gtk4, which allows us to build with mvs c++ native compiler which should be much faster than msys2. He tried it with stock Gtk4 apps. Julia Jonannesen confirmed that she had also tried the Gtk4 windows compile and got it to work. Mikekov has been working on translations and improving the polish translations but worked on some things for templates. Martin thanked him for focusing on fixing the templating translations. Nicco is getting back into the work schedule after taking a break and is coming to the end of the contract and has only a week or two of work left. He's focusing on documentation and wrapping up where the project has finally ended up. We'll talk about a review meeting soon. Martin, after taking a week off, has been working on a draft feature that allows extensions authors to add pre-processing actions which take the svg and change it, or augment it with information only inkscape knows about. Like bounding boxes, text paths. As well as refactoring the svg2 to svg1.1 compatibility code which are all converted into actions. Also been working on tidying up remaining issues and focusing on bugs reported by his patreons for the 1.3 release. -------------- The team spent the last ten minutes of the meeting looking at merge requests. First on the back-port proposed requests and second on some older WIP requests which are now no longer marked as draft. These are being closed if they are very old, but can be re-opened if needed. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer meeting notes, June 06 2023
by Jonathan Neuhauser 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

Hi everyone, Meeting: Tue June 06 2023 Next meeting: Wed June 14 Attending: Tav, Nicco, Rene, PBS, Jonathan, Marc, MikeKov, KrIr17 *String freeze for 1.3* Marc has backported relevant commits to 1.3.x. Extensions are up to date in both branches. No objections to string freeze = now. We've checked the backlog together, no more MRs with backport:proposed that contain string changes. *Vectors update/ Release planning*: Usually 6 week window for translations -> release around July 23rd at Vector's discretion Tarball needs to be ready ~ July 14. Testing completeness of packages? -> testing script by Nathan Release video: Lazur is doing something Release candidate: early July(no more non-obvious fixes after that) Windows 7 support has been dropped by MSYS2, so Inkscape 1.3 will officially not work on Windows 7. *Discussion re: po/pot files* Translators are supposed to use the pot file from the pipeline, but some are instead using (outdated) po files from the repository. - Should we update them? ~5m LOC change. Maren supports it. [done] - How are other projects doing that? -> some are using weblate, which (at least previously) doesn't like big POT files. Nicco used transifex (free for open source) - Could be a student project to refactor the way we organize translations. *René * MacOS ARM test failures in 1.3 branch? There is a problem on the Gitlab side, which affects the file structure. Moved the pipeline back to our own runner. Struggling to find time to re-release 1.2.2 including the Ventura fixes. The Alpha/Beta are already Ventura-compatible. Has not bought the new Apple developer certificate yet, will do so later this month. *Jonathan* AI Extension:work on importing text+ code for the different coordinate systems seems to be mature *Nicco* Progress a bit slow at the moment, but the roadmap is clear. Some work on live shapes / rectangles. Checks again with SFC for April payment. *PBS* Added coverage support to 2geom. Currently 47% coverage. Trying to join the GKT4 migration effort, e.g. dialogs + mjakemans event controller branch. Few minor issues remain, e.g. double-click to select text Why is modal dialogs not available in GTK4? They have deprecated it in favor of gtk::Window and AlertDialog (4.10+). Both of them can be made modal. [+ additional discussion about the event loop, other GKT4 MRs] Clips / Mask: We treat it the same. Conceptually, clipping is a vector operation and masking a pixel operation, and in the spec, different child elements are allowed. Needs a little bit of rewriting. Backport MR with cache fixes? Can only break what was already broken -> Marc decides. *Tav* Most things on the list "before the switch" to GTK4 are done. Some don't make sense to do before, some "at the time of switch" can already be done now. *Mike* Symbols ID fix ready to go. (!5363) - some discussion ensued. See you next week! Jonathan

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Vote: Wilber Week
by Martin Owens 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Dear PLC, The Gimp project has invited us to participate in their Wilber Week¹ at the Blender HQ in Amsterdam. The main subject they'd like to talk to us about is coordination between free software graphics tools. This might be useful to us since we haven't had any Libre Graphics events for a number of years. Various people who are invested in this topic were asked if they could and if they wanted to go². Marc and Chris Rogers were interested. Marc is organising himself and needs no extra funding, but Chris would like the travel expenses and some per-diem for the trip. Chris uses all of these tools in a professional capacity is is very aware of the challenges of coordinating them, making him a good candidate. I've split these into two votes: [1: Travel Expenses for Chris] (a) Allocate $260 for travel expenses (b) Do not allocate [2: Per-diem Expenses for Chris and/or Marc] (a) Allocate SFC's normal per-diem amount³ (b) Do not allocate (c) Something else Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens ¹ Wilber week url is private, please request url for their internal frama pad notes on the event if you need it ² I was originally asked to go, but it's way too expensive to fly from the USA so I deferred to other members who are physically closer. ³ SFC Travel policy https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conservancy-travel-policy.html

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Developer Meeting Notes, May 29th 2023
by Martin Owens 29 May '23

29 May '23

Hey Everyone, This week's meeting notes might be incomplete, I had to leave before people had stopped talking. But I don't think these notes are missing too much: Meeting: Monday 29th May 2023 Next Meeting: Tuesday 6th June 2023 Attending: Jonathan, Nicco, Martin, René, Tav, Marc, PBS # Beta Release Marc has worked on and published all the beta release files to the website. A brief talk about the beta release schedule and how our scheduling works between the release manager (Marc) and the macOS release engineer (René). The new release for macOS is built today and is now live. René has informed vectors so they can schedule themselves as needed. More updates for macOS libraries to keep everything sharp for 1.3. Extensions needs to be branched to 1.3.x now though because of string freeze. Jonathan is going to push his menu updates forwards now. Though he will need to ask Maren if this is ok. The beta has the right welcome screens, but the wrong about screen. Marc will work on fixing this. René needs to write a short bit of instructions for an artist to be able to do it themselves. # Crossink René and Martin have worked on getting the cross-compiler working so linux programmers can generate windows builds. This functionality has atrophied a little since Jan. # GitLab Infrastructure Some issues with the testing stage on GitLab. It's a bumpy road to clear up. There's problems between how one's own machine works compared to their runners. # Color Management Tav has been working on some of the color management stuff but will put it to oneside for now so he can work on Gtk4. Marc, Martin, Tav and Philip talk about the color management support will work for Wayland. Trying and keep as much of the code as possible, but remove the bits that interact directly with Gtk3 and X11 only paths. # Other Items Nicco has been working on positioning and getting items in the right places. Martin's not been doing much beyond preparing merges and fixes for beta and helping out where possible. Tav and Jonathan talk mesh gradients wrt to the ai importer as well as Adobe's thinking on mesh gradients. GSoc toolbar refactoring is going to take a lot of discussion to make sure we get the best fix. The way widgets fall off the end of the toolbar is a design which we now have to do ourselves. Marc continued to work on the dithering patch. A discussion was had about the details of working upstream. Marc has talked about moving away from cairo. See you all Tuesday! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Fwd: Legal: Agreement to use Inkscape as a prop on a TV show (NZ)
by Martin Owens 23 May '23

23 May '23

(sent to wrong address in original CC)

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Fwd: Election Project Leadership Committee: Results
by Martin Owens 22 May '23

22 May '23

Hey everyone, I'm sure you all got the attached message if you are an inkscape member. We now have two new Project Leadership Committee members and all seats are now filled. Thanks to Pono for being the proctor for this election. Congratulations to René and Jonathan and also thank you for stepping up and taking on the responsibilities. It's going to be awesome having you guys involved in the leadership committee. Ted or Pono, I think we need to send a message to the SFC and get the two new members inducted? I believe they need to be on the inkscape and sfc mailing lists. Is there anything else needed? ---- One personal note; we have regressed a little in terms of diversity on the plc. We used to have a non-programmer member, but now all members are from the developer team, white, male and western. Not for a lack of trying, but I think we should keep an eye on our diversity in the project and see if there anything we can do to help invite more people in and help them stick around so they get to be on the plc too. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: May 21st 2023
by Martin Owens 21 May '23

21 May '23

Dear developer team, It was a quiete Sunday meeting today, here are your notes: Meetings: Sunday 21st May 2023 Next Meeting: Monday 29th May 2023 René, Tav, Mikekov, Martin, Jonathan, Nicco Week was eventful for René because GitLab announced their Arm builders are now available but also announced that they are decomissioning their intel runners within two weeks at the end of May. René had to run around to patch together a way keep our CI builders working. Various movements of machines had to be planned or re-planned because of this short notice from GitLab. We're having problems getting responses from Pono and the SFC for various issues. Tav hasn't heard back about the Gtk4 contract, a PLC candidate didn't hear back when they had questions about standing for the PLC election, Jonathan hasn't heard back in two weeks about questions he has regarding the bug accelorator program. To help figure out what's going on, Jonathan is going to try and talk with Pono after the hiring committee meeting later in the week. Tav worked on some demonstration code for multi column dropdowns and generally looking into the Gtk4 migration more. Mikekov looked into translations and is worried about the systems for polish translations and the quality of code reviews. Developers are struggling with the review of these requests. Martin suggests the po directory should be split out into it's own git submodule for portability, Jonathan suggests using special folder ownership to indicate which teams in inkscape can approve changes, Mikekov explores some tooling and what might have gone wrong in the past for the polish translations. Recommended that this conversation be moved to the translators mailing list so that team can make the decisions about what it wants to do. Jonathan has been doing some assumption checking in the AI importer project. Adobe has managed to create filters which in svg are three lines, but in ai files take a hundred lines. Nicco has been working on units and scaling and has written a lot of tests. Slow but stead progress. Chris Rogers is at Wilber Week, please let him know if you have any questions. Marc may be joining him but we don't know if he's going yet. There will be a beta branching event this week, 23rd May, if Marc is available. We need to follow up with the plans for the week. This isn't a beta /release/ as that can happen after. Any open merge requests will have to be duplicated in order to make it into 1.3 after this date. Jonathan has been looking into a contract extension for the bug accelerator project. Originally for three people, reduce to two. Rafael dropped out. Martin has been doing amazing work and we could do with more of his time to work on these issues. The issue will be raised with PLC members. Martin has been working on PDF importers and fixing various regressions. Adding more tests to make it harder to break various complex files. The developer team group activity this week was looking into a few old and new merge requests. Some MRs were approved, some older MRs which were still WIP were closed. Thanks for coming everyone, see you all Monday after next. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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