May 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Bug Hunt for 0.47
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, As with other things, why fix what isn't broken? This release' bug hunt is a combination of the last two bug hunts in terms of functionality and scoring. Again, this is liberally recycling bryce's announcements. ;) Traditionally, we specify a point target for us to reach, and award us points based on the severity of the bug: 3, 6, 9, or 12 points for low, medium, high, and critical. This releases goal is again 500 points. We only give points for true bug fixes - not bugs simply closed due to being dupes, invalid, works-for-me, or whatnot. As with the last release, we won't count fixes to the website, translations, docs, and so on, we'll award points only for true code-level bug fixes. While our Frost goal is to close 500 points worth of *any* bug, when we get to Freeze our goal will be to have 0 Critical bugs, so efforts put into closing Crits will be doubly good! As with 0.45's bug hunt, we do want to encourage work on old bugs. So, points will be doubled for any bugs fixed that have been open for a year or more. Bug Hunt Goal: 500 points Current: 0 points Low: 3 - 6 pts Med: 6 - 12 pts High: 9 - 18 pts Critical: 12 - 24 pts We especially need testers (and bug fixers) for Windows and OSX. We have a tendency to have a number of platform specific bugs, so all the help we can get would be appreciated. If you are a Windows or OSX user, you too can be a big help, simply by browsing the bug tracker and see if you can reproduce the bug, and then add a comment on the bug one way or the other. No technical experience required. :-) I will be posting scoring as we have in the past. Note that the "current" score above is actually incorrect as a few bugs have been fixed since the Frost began. The first scoreboard will be posted by mid-week and will include all fixes since Frost began. Cheers, Josh

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Easy community task - Social PR
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, With the About Screen Contest for 0.47 underway, one of the easiest things we all can do to help is to spread the word via social networking means. Whether it be blogging, tweeting (or RTs), posting on forums, you name it... the more of us that talk about, the more attention it will get. This contest PR effort could prove to be a good test of some of the needed PR mechanisms to make the announcement of 0.47 (when it is released) as loud, far reaching, and relevant as possible. So, again... the announcement which needs to be shown love (digg style button, yes it requires registration like digg) is here: http://news.deviantart.com/article/79268/ The more people that show the article love, the more people it will end up attracting the attention of on DA (which is important since it is the largest online art community/potential userbase). Want to help get us new users? This alone is one of the most effective methods. Note, even if you're not interested in signing up at DA to show love, you should still spread the word. :) Cheers, Josh P.S. Yes, I will put out a similar call to action when we're looking to do the PR push for the 0.47 release. Consider this our test run. :)

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Special Bug Hunt Spree this weekend (May 9-10)!
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, As mentioned in the proposed release schedule, this weekend, May 9-10 we will have a special effort to squash as many bugs as possible in a 48 hour period. If you can make time to participate it would be greatly appreciated by all. Even if you aren't a programmer, you can help to confirm that bugs are indeed fixed by others. Dates: May 9-10 Place: #inkscape on Freenode (or Jabber for the cool kids ;)) Goal: Fix at least a quarter of our goal of 500pts (125pts in 2 days). Reward: Being part of making 0.47 our best and most stable release ever. Be there or be square! Cheers, Josh

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Inkscapers traveling to LGM
by Jon A. Cruz 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi, Do we have any Inkscape people traveling to LGM other than myself? For travel reimbursement they would like us to get them a list of people ASAP so they can address things, and want a single contact person to list things for them.

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0.47 App Icon Proposal
by Jakub Steiner 04 May '09

04 May '09

I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2]. The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too. cheers [1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip [2] http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_v… -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...400...> http://jimmac.musichall.cz

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DeviantART & Wacom Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, One of the last major contests held on DA was won by an Inkscape user. There is something to be said for both people's creativity and their tools of choice. :) So, if you'd like a chance to win a brand new Wacom Intuos4, money, some proprietary software that you can throw in the waste bin ;), and all that fun stuff, check out: http://news.deviantart.com/article/76573/ And yes... my recommendation is to use Inkscape. Cheers, Josh

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Time for Frost
by Josh Andler 03 May '09

03 May '09

Hey all, Please don't forget that the frost phase is beginning today according to the proposed schedule. Any issues with this need to be raised immediately. Otherwise, excpect the bug hunt and about screen announecements tomorrow. :-) Cheers, Josh

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Snapshots not updating
by Render 02 May '09

02 May '09

I noticed that the snapshots located http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112 indicate that the windows dev version is 21259, but when you open up the development version it indicates rev 21210 from Apr24. Just thought I would let you know

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