0.44 development status
by Bryce Harrington
Hi all,
I've compiled the status for the 0.44 development checklist. I'm sure
this is already out of date, so please email me updates and I'll update
next weekend.
Luckily, most everything people are working on sound like they could be
wrapped up by the end of the month, however the quantity of things going
on suggests that at least some efforts may require longer. Thus, I
would like to propose the following schedule for getting to Feature
Freeze mode:
Now - Development continues on the ~24 items identified
For non-0.44 feature work, please use branches
May 1st - Achieve completion of at least 50% of the items.
Work continues on the remaining 12.
Work ceases on any other features.
Notification to translators
Begin focusing on bugfixes.
Identify preliminary "must-fix" buglist
May 15th - Feature Freeze
All feature development work ends
Finalize the "must-fix" buglist
Issue pre-release packages for testing
Focus on bug fixes, translations, & docs
TBD - Hard Freeze
Translation work finishes
Final resolution on all "must-fix" bugs
Issue one or more release candidates
TBD - 0.44 Release
How does this plan sound? Has anything been missed?
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Inkscape 0.44 Development Checklist
ICC Preview
===========
Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point
for the release.
* Update Release Notes
CMYK support
============
Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point
for the release.
* Update Release Notes
ArtLibre named icon and cursor loading
======================================
Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point
for the release.
* Update Release Notes
Palette editing and per-file color sets
=======================================
Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point
for the release.
* Update Release Notes
Tablet Bugs
===========
MentalGuy is working on this. Says for the release he wants to get
these resolved.
Brush size adjustment on zoom toggle for calligraphic pen
=========================================================
MentalGuy is working on this and plans to have it to a finished point
for the release.
Layer dialog
============
This is an important feature for the release, and on MentalGuy's todo
list. However, work has been stuck getting Inkscape::LayerManager to
compile due to a subtle detail with sigc::mem_fun(), and it's uncertain
if there is sufficient time to unstick it and finish the feature prior
to the release. Additional people's help may be needed here.
[Beyond the memory issue, are there other aspects to the layer dialog
that others could help with, such as UI work or coding helper features
or whatever? --bh]
* Update Release Notes
Fit Canvas to Selection
=======================
This is a feature ACSpike has been working on, and plans to complete for
the release. The patch is here:
http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/current.diff
ODG Format Support
==================
Ishmal is working on this currently. It basically works and is 90%
done; the one issue at the moment that needs to be fixed for the release
is that image rotations are backwards. [I think this might be fixed
now. -- bh]
DOM Support
===========
Ishmal has been working on this. The newest code is all imported and
builds. [Is there anything else needing to be done prior to release?]
SIOX Support
============
Ishmal has this over half done. The code is all imported and building,
and the selection mechanism is about done. Getting Inkscape and SIOX
intercommunication working, but this can be built as a filter to
potrace, which simplifies things. There are some transformation issues
that need to be sorted out.
Extensions
==========
Ted is focusing on cleaning up extension parameters and felt he'd have
this wrapped up by the end of the month. The plan is to have longer
text (tool tips) available, and a few more widgets. More spacing in the
autogui will be added to make it look nicer.
* Ted reports there is an unverified bug in the ordering of the
effects in the menu, to be investigated.
The Extension Editor is further off, and not being planned for this
release.
Snapping
========
!!! More info needed - Carl and Mathieu (and maybe Ralf?) !!!
* Need to fix the freeze when dragging multiple selected objects:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&group_id...
* Update Release Notes
Rendering Performance Speedup
=============================
Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. The feature is
complete and accepted for the release. There is one known issue to
address with scrolling, but Andrius feels this can be fixed.
* Additional testing needs to be performed
Screenshots
===========
Scislac has taken this task on, and plans to have it done for the
release.
Two screenshots are done currently, and one more is in the works. There
will be a call for more screenshots on the Deviant Art site.
Tutorials
=========
Calligraphy is mostly done, and a few of the other updates to the other
tutorials have been drafted but that stuff definitely needs more work.
Should be possible to have them done by the end of April.
Calligraphic interface tweak
============================
Bulia is working on this change requested by MentalGuy, and feels they
are minor and should have no trouble completing for the release.
Windows font handling bugfixes (DONE)
==============================
Richard (cyreve) has completed these bug fixes and updated the release notes.
* Update ReleaseNotes
Python Extensions on Windows
============================
!!! No owner has been identified for this task !!!
Bulia reports that extensions that rely on PyXML still do not work on
Windows. Due to the number of python extensions, this would be a major
missing feature for Windows users.
Text/Fonts UI
=============
deadchip (aka Milosz Derezynski <internalerror at gmail dot com>) has
written a font lister Gtkmm class, to enable re-use of the font list.
He is planning to write a font picker dialog, and rewrite the current
font picker to use the font _listing_ class. This enables using normal
Gtk components (ListStore, etc.) for accessing the font info. He plans
to have this work done by May 1st, or May 15th at the latest.
Windows "dialogs on top" Patch for GTK
======================================
!!! No owner has been identified for this task !!!
This is not exactly an Inkscape-specific problem, since the code changes
wouldn't be to Inkscape, but it would be nice to have it finally fixed.
This 0.44 release effort may be a good vehicle to tie it to, but we
won't hold up the release if it doesn't get done. Scislac had contacted
the author previously.
* Send a reminder email to the author to find status on this
Undo/Redo Dialog
================
!!! No owner has been identified for this task !!!
We have a patch for this, but the author has not been reachable. Also
needed is undo annotations.
* Unless the author or another developer takes ownership of this
patch within a week or so, perhaps the wise thing to do would be to
incorporate it right after the release, to give maximum debugging
time for 0.55.
New File Chooser in Export
==========================
We have a patch for this, but there were some thoughts of embedding it
in the export dialog directly. In the spirit of "patch first, discuss
later", the best approach may be to stick in the current patch for 0.44,
see what folks think, and do the embedding later.
Additional Release Tasks
========================
The following tasks will need to be done for the release, but are not
required to be done prior to the Feature Freeze:
* Identify the list of must-fix bugs. To keep the freeze phase from
dragging out, we will need to be very choosy in what we allow to be
must-fix bugs.
* Set up a ReleaseChecklist wiki page or similar to keep track of The
List.
* Designate 2 release maintainers.
* Keep and update the above list and encourage people to achieve
completion of the items.
* Notify translators to complete translation work
* Wiki updates
+ Update Roadmap
+ Review/Update FAQ
+ Update InkscapeFeatures
* PR / marketing efforts
+ Plan efforts
+ Draft press release
+ Finalize press release
+ Send out press release [rejon]
* Packaging
Bryce
16 years, 5 months
NEW: Zommed in rendering speedup
by Andrius Ramanauskas
As mentioned in some previous mail, I have finished rendering optimisation,
which gives best results for zoomed in drawings with complex (multi-node)
paths. Optimisation focus - eliminating cubicTo and LineTo nodes outside
of visible area, so no unneeded calculations is needed and less memory is
consumed (this avoids crashes which were occurring previously if zooming
into a complex drawing). This can be improved even more (for example ArcTo
nodes are not affected and is still slow if zoomed in; etc).
This might affect all the rendering, so please report any broken rendering
issues.
Andrius
16 years, 10 months
WEBFORM live bookmarks / rss
by pbhj
Message from Inkscape submission form
Please note, that the submitter may not read this list.
CC your answer to the submitter
name: pbhj
email: inkscape@...1029...%0Acc:pbhj@...19...
submitted the following:
RSS feed, great!
No <link> in page header makes it v.hard for Firefox users to add a livemark though.
<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"inkscape news\" href=\"/inkscape.rss\" />
Cheers
pbhj
16 years, 10 months
RSS feed not synced with website news
by Luca Bruno
Hi all,
I've just noticed that the RSS feed for inkscape.org[1] isn't synced
with latest news on the website. It's currently missing at least latest
post by rejon. Can anyone please check why and fix it?
I remember the feed-generator script is called from a cron (which?),
maybe the problem is there or in the switch between CVS and SVN repo...
Greetings, Luca
[1] http://www.inkscape.org/inkscape.rss
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16 years, 10 months
Problem with verbs
by Jon A. Cruz
Before I did some other changes that would require adding a new verb,
I setup a unit test on verbs explicitly. In doing so, I discovered
that Verb::getbyid() fails if the id has any dots in it.
To see the problem, just update and do a 'make check'. You should
then see the warning come up for that (I made it a warning for the
moment, instead of a failure).
So, does anyone have ideas about this and how to fix it?
16 years, 10 months
Flash Export
by unknown＠example.com
Hello everyone. I've been playing with Inkscape for a while now, keep up the good work.
I am interested in Flash export functionality for Inkscape. Are any developers working on this? I would be interested in helping out.
Brian
16 years, 10 months
SoC and automatic kerning
by juraj sukop
Dear Inkscapers,
I greatly welcomed that Summer of Code is going to happen this year again,
since I would like to participate this time.
I would like to develop a tool for automatic kerning -- this should adjust
the position of the letters in a text to correct the spacing irregularities,
to ease the reading flow and to improve readability. This is also called
optical kerning. To me, this is very helpful feature and I can imagine it
could be of use for other open source software as well.
Unfortunately, this is not listed on your Project Ideas page.
What do you think? Would such a thing make sense for Inkscape and in the
same time applicable for Summer of Code?
Thanks a lot for any feedback and good night!
Juraj Sukop
16 years, 10 months
snapping update?
by bulia byak
One thing that we can't release without is workable snapping. Since
more and more people start talking about releasing, I thought I'd ask
for an update.
Overall, it seems to me that this area, which was actively worked upon
a few months ago, has been abandoned since and is now in some
semi-working state. At the very least, the
freeze-when-dragging-many-objects bug MUST be fixed. There are many
other snapping bugs and RFEs, and there's probably some work that was
left unfinished.
Carl, is there any chance you will address the freeze bug in the near
future? What about other bugs?
Mathieu, I know you were working on some features that were
conditional on Carl's work. Can you please give us an update of the
current status? What is required to enable your features? Do you think
you could help us with the bugs and general cleanup in absence of
Carl?
Of course, any insights on the situation, or better yet, help with
coding will be much appreciated from anyone.
Thanks!
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
16 years, 10 months
