Hey devs,
Big meeting today.
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Ltlnx, Marc, Mikekov, René, Pbs, Regie, Ishann, Tav, Vaibhav
# The 1.4.3 Release
ltlnx is managing the 1.4.3 release and talks about the task list which is almost entirely done.
* One item to do is the versioning which Marc will take care of now. * Documentation is in sync. * all graphics are up to date * Martin says Extensions are out of sync and won't be up to date in time for the release. Ishann asked about it. * We will directly pull from the CI for RC build which is scheduled for today. * There is a signing step which is now integrated which improves the process. * Tav concluded his Bug Accelerator program with the fixing of startup crashes on macOS * 1.4.3 RC will e released tonight, and given to vectors to announce so we can get testing.
Vectors have asked for an announcement time for the RC, dev team will make the builds and would like as much time as is possible for users to download and test the RC to pick out any major breakage from various updates to libraries and various fixes.
Marc asks about website problems for the release. Martin reports that the website is unstable and sometimes works well and sometimes get slow.
We looked at some of the remaining critical and blocking issues. Charlotte looked into the keyboard switching issue which may have been fixed upstream, we'll be keeping an eye on it for the release candidate. Other blockers have all been fixed and we look like we're in a good place.
René didn't get much of a response for his tofu fix, but knows it's fixed because of other apps that have all been fixed in the same way.
# Translations problems
Maren brought an issue about possibly AI or automated updates for Swedish and how we handle that Marc says it's all settled. PBS raised a problem with po file being updated frequently which leads to massive submodule repository every time we pull in master branch and update the submodules. the frequency can be adjusted and the old commits can be squashed when needed to save space. 7d day frequency for weblate sync.
# Funding discussions
We talked about the meeting we had with the owners of Audacity and some of the interesting ideas for funding models. This discussion covered a lot of ground but has not been recorded in the minutes so people could speak their mind.
# Any other business
We talked about the lack of announcement messages in rocket chat, Ben has fixed the crontab but it's still not going through.
Rene talked about sorting out some of the build folders to make it easier to manage changes and remove dead files.
Thanks everyone for coming,
Best Regards, Martin Owens