May 2011 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Recent surge of spam in the wiki
by ~suv 04 May '11

04 May '11

In recent weeks, Inkscape's Wiki is increasingly targeted by (presumably) spam bots which create a new user and a new page with spam (including uploaded images) [1]. 1) Could the wiki use tighter rules for the creation of new users (captchas?) that can't be exploited as easily as apparently the current configuration? 2) Who does have admin credentials to change the current wiki configuration? 3) Who else does have admin rights to clean up (delete pages, block user accounts)? At the moment, it seems as if 'Legio noctis' is the only one with sufficient admin rights who cares and cleans up from time to time, but if the spam surges as it has in recent days, maybe this clean-up task could be shared by several users, or even done by a script? ~suv [1] <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebot…>

1 0

Gtk3 and libgdl
by Joel Holdsworth 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hi All, I'm interested in upstreaming libgdl so that we can remove it from the inkscape codebase, but I notice that GDL has now been ported to Gtk3. Are there any plans in motion to port inkscape to Gtk3. Or is this something I could consider involving myself with. Best Regards Joel Holdsworth

4 3

Upstreaming Inkscape's libcroco
by Joel Holdsworth 01 May '11

01 May '11

Hi Inkscape Devs, I've decided to take it upon myself to try and get Inkscape's libcroco pushed upstream. I've been doing some web searching about the previous discussions that have gone on about it: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/libcroco-list/2007-February/msg00000.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/libcroco-list/2009-March/msg00001.html https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/123799 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/inkscape/+bug/648246 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572454 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252510 I've been doing some work pulling out the differences between inkscape and upstream crocco into a series of tidy patches. The main differences are the libxml split-out, fixes for compiler warnings, and a couple of minor bug fixes. But as you know the main issue is about splitting out libxml, and I see that this has already been attempted here:http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=129078 Do anyone know anything about the status of this patch? Was is rejected for some reason? Best Regards Joel Holdsworth

3 2