Website Translations
by Martin Owens
Hey Guys,
Please pass this onto the translations mailing list:
The website's internal translations are open:
https://translations.launchpad.net/inkscape-web
These are all the strings which one can not edit from the CMS interface,
but should be translated for your local language. They'll be merged in
one a week or so and uploaded to the live website.
These didn't work until today and I'm still trying to identify strings
which haven't been marked for translation. So if you see any, let me
know via a bug report.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
9 years, 9 months
Staging & Website Update
by Martin Owens
Hey Devs,
We're testing live over at http://py1.osuosl.org/ please register a new
account for yourself and I will enabled your editing capabilities.
Please do not edit http://staging.inkscape.org any more unless you want
to test edits. These edits will be periodically overwritten with data
from the new live instance.
We're waiting on the masters of the DNS to change over www.inkscape.org
when ready. In the meantime, please give the new live a test and please
let me know if you find issues.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
9 years, 9 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and SMIL support
by Susan Spencer
As mentioned previously in this thread,
details of fundraising are typically
discussed *after* a proper estimate is
developed.
If this is a serious discussion (which I believe it is)
then the following actions are up next:
1. Identify the programmers, testers, documenters and users
who will participate. (Participants can assume multiple roles)
2. The programmers collaborate to create & share the
requirements and constraints
3. The testers specify & share the testing and signoff
requirements, based on output of #2
4. All participants specify documentation requirements to meet
needs of both the users and the future developers/maintainers
5. Estimate the cost & delivery schedule
6. Design the fundraising campaign (which is another separate effort)
if you're going to raise funds from the public then
you can't be code cowboys about this, no matter
if you believe this is a relatively small effort.
Performing the above steps and publishing the results
helps build momentum for public monetary support
and creates tremendous public confidence.
it also gives the tech media something to report
regularly building up to the fundraising
start date. Use the machine wisely, publicity never hurts!
Assuming that remote collaboration results require
more time than face-to-face sprints,
we can shoot for 30 to 60 days for #1-5,
30 days maximum for #6,
so max 90 days till fundraising.
My skills aren't in programming,
but if you would like me to I can help with
project development & fundraising.
If there are others more connected to Inkscape than I
who would like to step up for this work, please do!
- Susan
>
9 years, 9 months
Website status
by Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:48:14PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 15:58 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Thanks, what is the ETA for this switchover?
>
> Last week of November was my target date. I'm confident it'll be
> switched by next week. We have OSL on the ticket today for the new mysql
> database and I've got everything from the repo to the nginx config
> ready.
>
> Once live.inkscape.org points to py1, it can be tested. Once it checks
> out, inkscape.org and www.inkscape.org can be pointed to the same.
>
> Martin,
Hi Martin,
Where do we sit with getting the new site online? I assume we just need
a DNS switchover at this point; if so, do you have a contact person for
doing this switch?
I've had a few people contact me about making donations recently, so
given google checkout is going away, it'd be helpful to get the new site
up asap.
Also, can you draft up a short intro guide to explain how to sign up for
an editor account, and how to add content, news items, etc. to the site?
Bryce
9 years, 9 months
Additional Inkscape Funding - paying developers feature by feature
by Anna Morris
Hi,
Firstly, I am a big Inkscape fan, I have used it for various projects in the past year, this is my favorite http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png (ie. I am not a spammer, lol)
So, my email is about funding. I am working with Open Funding http://funding.openinitiative.com/ to assist developers to get crowd funding for Free Software. Open Funding works on a feature by feature basis. For example the core-team at gimp are funding a symmetry painting feature at the moment http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/
I am not sure how Inkscape is funded at the moment, but I would very much like to assist any developer(s) to get funding for a feature. Also, if you don't need/want to earn money for your work, you could always donate the funds to the project in general.
This small scale funding is a great way for users (like myself) to give back, which they are often eager to do, but in a way which is very concrete, forward thinking and achievable. Its much simpler to set up than a large kickstarter campaign and is more deeply routed in the function of the software.
Please let me know what you think and if you are interested in getting funding this way, either as a group of core-developers or, if not, as an individual developer.
Thanks
Anna Morris
9 years, 9 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and SMIL support
by Maggio Mago
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:59:22PM +0100, Krzysztof Kosi??ski wrote:
>
> That sounds like a good project. If you are interested in this, ping
> me, I've done a little bit of work on vector renderers on opengl.
>
>
Ping!
I work at my level about SMIL support.
I am interested in any document about it. In my own way I try also to
document source code (conceptual / concrete architecture, sequential
diagram, relationship diagram, major objects, ...)
Best regards
---------------------------------------------
Thank you to all the contributors who helped to Inkscape to be it is. I
send you our best greetings, and all your family members.
9 years, 9 months
Removing ID attribute from group (XML editor) causes crash
by Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology
While editing an Inkscape-created document, if I delete the ID attribute of
a group (or any other element, on further investigation) using the XML
editor, and then select that element in the visual editor, Inkscape crashes.
The ID in question is not referenced elsewhere in the document.
Is it valid SVG to have objects without IDs? It certainly seems like it
should be, particularly for hand-crafted SVG.
I can reproduce this trivially in Inkscape's trunk build from 22 Sep 2013
on a blank document with nothing but a plain rectangle.
- Bryan
--
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*Ph:* +64 3 741 1204 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955
*Web:* brush.co.nz
9 years, 9 months
SMIL Breakdown
by Martin Owens
This is an attempt to breakdown the larger SMIL problem into dependent
pieces of work and also define a test which can say if this piece is
done. What piece would you like to work on the most?
If you can see any gaps or better delineations, we can modify:
1. Preservation - Allow all SMIL elements and attributes to exist in
loaded documents and save them back without modifications even if the
object's they're tied to are modified. The test is a set of SMIL enabled
animations and this might already pass.
2. Propertise - Actually load SMIL elebutes into structures and make
them accessible via code. The test would be a code test, call out all
the attributes and iterate over times.
3. Internal Time Line - We'd introduce the time dimension to our objects
and we'd be able to set a time on them and read back nearest values (no
interpolation). The test would be another code test to select objects,
set a time and read back attributes. (getAttributeAtTime?)
4. Static Time - We'd allow the user to set a time via the ui or the
command line and render that as a static non-animated drawing. The test
would be a visual one, load inkscape with an existing smil svg file and
pick a bunch of times and export each as a png frame.
5. Interpolation - This can happen along side any other pieces after 3,
but it's a well understood problem and testing can be done with either a
code test requesting attributes non-key-frame times or a visual test
like 4 for non-key-frame times.
6. Renderer - We attempt to create a smooth animation from the
attributes. This involves automatically progressing over time and
changing the rendered output. The test would be to load a smil svg and
see the animation animate on canvas once. (Play button/keycombo?)
7. Timeline UI - This is the most UI design aspect. We add in a way for
the user to move through the timeline. We don't have to make the UI look
like any existing products. The test would allow a user to drag through
a timeline, press pause, start, etc and see the result.
8. Attribute modification - This is where it changes from being a viewer
to an editor. Moving and changing attributes while at a specific time
can create the required key frames in a linear time progression.
Deleting those key times would be useful too. Test would be to create a
simple animation from scratch.
9. Export - This is where we save out frames from the render one by one
into a desired format. The test is simply the ability to get an mpeg or
dir of pngs from an smil svg file.
These steps are all really basic and each one should be non-intrusive
and capable of being released without effecting the experience for
static artists.
The next question is; if we were to organise a project around these
tasks; how far would we initially go and how much would each step cost?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
9 years, 9 months
Inkscape and SMIL support
by HadiM
Hi guys,
I wonder to know if you have a mid term plan to add animation support on
inkscape (with a nice GUI and all that stuff...). I you do, are you
planning to use SMIL or DOM manipulation script ?
I saw on your wiki some pages related to animation support but they are all
old and do not seems updated.
If you don't have time to work on it, could you consider launching an
indigogo or kickstarter campaign to raise some funds. I am sure many people
will give you money to give that support.
In my opinion with HTML5 / CSS3, modern browser, video support and
inkscape, animation support in inkscape is the only key missing to be able
te replace PowerPoint.
I except to see many software based on SVG+animation emerge in the next few
years with the HTML5 explosion. It will be sad to see a new proprietary
software emerging and becoming the standard in SVG animation.
Best,
--
HadiM
9 years, 9 months
