August 2015 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape Call for Candidates
by Ted Gould 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Inkscape is holding elections for two vacant Board Member seats. As you may know, two of our seven Inkscape Board Members have resigned a few months ago. Now that all the infrastructure we need for an election is in place, we want to invite our Official Project Members¹ to run for a seat on the board. We encourage everyone of you to consider increasing your involvement in the project by applying as a candidate for the Inkscape Board. If you are an Official Project Member, and would like to run or to nominate someone, please send your suggestion to inkscape.elections.committee@...3260... We will then ask the person you nominated (if not you) if they are willing to accept their candidature. Details about the Board's duties, the application process and the election schedule can be found below: Duties Typically the board votes on things such as project fund expenditures (travel, conferences, marketing materials for events, etc), trademark related issue, other legal issues that arise, etc. The board does not have responsibility currently for technical decisions for the project, and does not handle social/community issues where there are no financial or legal aspects to the problem. Board membership requires a commitment of time: At a minimum you will be expected to participate in votes on the mailing list, which typically occur with a frequency of about 0 to 3 per month. You are required to be on the board mailing list, which has a volume of about 30-50 emails per month; you're not required to participate in the discussions, but it is very strongly encouraged. We also solicit volunteers from the board to serve as as event managers, team leaders, fundraising coordinators, etc. - Again, not a requirement, but we value board members who can shoulder such duties for the project. Board members will serve on the Board until they resign (or are removed from the Board under the provisions of the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with Software Conservancy — available on https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/). Candidature The election process starts with a Candidacy Period during which any Official Member may indicate interest in running for the positions. To register, please email inkscape.elections.committee@...3261..., giving your: * Name (legal name required when elected) * Current professional affiliation * Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies * A personal statement At the end of the Candidacy Period, the applicants will be reviewed to verify eligibility. The list of candidates will then by published, and the community will have a chance to ask questions on the development mailing list. And then we will move forward with voting for the candidates. More information for voters will be sent before the election starts. Schedule The schedule for the elections will be as follows: * Candidacy period Start: August 5th, 2015 * Candidacy period End: August 18th, 2015 (08:00 UTC) * Publication of Candidates & start of Candidate Q&A: August 18th, 2015 * Election Start: August 18th, 2015 * Election End: September 2nd, 2015 (08:00 UTC) * Results Posted: September 4th, 2015 Full election procedures can be found here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.board/+junk/board-docs/view/head:/res… The Inkscape Elections Committee ¹ For this election we are using r14222 of the AUTHORS file for the list of eligible voters and possible candidates http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/14222/AUTHORS If you believe that there is an error in that version (omission or mistaken inclusion) please contact the election committee as soon as possible.

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Wrong positioning of guidelines on the typography extension
by Felipe Sanches 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Hello, there! I am the original author of the typography extensions in Inkscape. Those were implemented roughly 4 years ago and used to work well. I tried using them again today and noticed that the positioning of the guidelines is wrong in the current development version of Inkscape. The specific one I'm talking about is: share/extensions/setup_typography_canvas.py Looking at git blame (I am using git bzr) I have seen that tavmjong did modify the code some months ago (actually in October 2014) adding a declaration of document units being in pixels. =================== commit 4c2c309889e6c7ad12ddd2479294ccc6f3564953 Author: tavmjong-free <tavmjong@...8...> Date: Thu Oct 9 11:25:39 2014 +0200 Add proper 'viewBox', set 'inkscape:document-units', set maximum em-size to 2048 as is typical in TrueType. =================== What I observe on the current misbehaviour is that the positioning of the guidelines is being done as if the units were given in millimeters... I'm not sure whose fault is this: If it is the parsing of the sp-guide parameters that ignore units, or if it is my extension that should explicitely append "px" to the values instead of simply passing plain unit-less numbers. Anyway... It's been a long time I've written this code and perhaps someone here who's been more active these years in the project may have a quick answer to my issue. Otherwise, I'll be investigating it further in order to get it fixed, anyway. happy hacking, Felipe Sanches (a.k.a. "Juca")

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Regarding Inkscape in Indian languages
by chandrakant dhutadmal 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Hi Axel, David and others, There is no issue or problem as far as translations are concerned. We already have the translations done for all Indic languages and these are also attached in the Bugs (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cpdhutadmal ). If this can be taken ahead, Indic language users will be very happy. Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.Pune, India. On Friday, February 13, 2015 9:33 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev@...3215...> wrote: On 02/11/2015 10:44 PM, chandrakant dhutadmal wrote: > Hi All. > We have submitted requests for bringing out localized Inkscape for Indian languages through various bugs filed. List of all such bugs filed can be looked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cpdhutadmal. > We have also submitted translations for those languages. Would like to know from the community if we have considered making builds for Indic languages. If so, when are we going to do it. If not, can we have a discussions surrounding the topic ? > > RegardsChandrakant DhutadmalPune, India. > > I suspect what is missing is volunteers to do the translation. How to contribute a translation is outlined on this web page https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/translations/ Thanks, Alex

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Problems in rendering LaTeX in Windows 7
by Yuxiang Wang 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Dear all, I find my Inkscape 0.91 for Windows 7 64-bit has problems in rendering LaTeX. What I did was: 1) Extensions - Render - LaTeX 2) Enter "test" in LaTeX input 3) Click "Apply". Then, a cmd.exe window will pop out and just hang there. If I close this window, I get: Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected. ^Cinvalid LaTeX input: test temporary files were left in: c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\inkscape-zxdypk Could anyone please help? Thanks! Shawn -- Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang Gerling Haptics Lab University of Virginia yw5aj@...3259... +1 (434) 284-0836 https://sites.google.com/a/virginia.edu/yw5aj/

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Easy size bend and pattern along path LPE's
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Hi to all! Here are my last branch ready for review! https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/bend_and_pattern_alon g_path_width_modified_by_point_parameter The video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzqKL2POW4 Also i lost in You Tube make public this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21C3tsYdBEI Is a LPE from Ivan Louette mind in review process by Nathan Hurst. All The Best!

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Website is Back up
by Martin Owens 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Dear All, The database came back online 7 minutes ago, and the website has been turned from read-only (sqlite) to inkscape_live (MySQL). All downloads and errors should be solved from now. Thank you to everyone for being patient and please contact the various user groups to let them know the process is done and things are back up. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator

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Spare Links
by Martin Owens 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Dear all, Because there is such huge delay getting the website back up, please use these links for downloading inkscape: https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-0.91-1… https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-0.91-1… https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-0.91-1… https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-osxmen… They're the regular links, so they'll continue to work after; we just can't track downloads via them so that why we use the links we do on the pages. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[lance@...2167...: Re: [Hosting] mysql1-vip update]
by Bryce Harrington 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Update on the database rebuild... ----- Forwarded message from Lance Albertson <lance@...2167...> ----- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 10:56:40 -0700 From: Lance Albertson <lance@...2167...> Cc: hosting@...2167... Subject: Re: [Hosting] mysql1-vip update Just an update on our current progress. The replay of the binlogs are still going and we seem to be about 55% the way through. I'm not entirely sure when it will finish but I'm hoping sometime this afternoon at the current rate and then we can finally start the restores. Thanks again for your patience. On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Jordan Evans <jordane@...2167...> wrote: > We ran into a few issues importing the largest db from backups, but it > has now finishes and we have moved on to replaying the binary logs. > The replay of the logs is going significantly faster. We hope to begin > restoring databases into production around 0600 PDT (1300 UTC). > > We want to again thank you for your patience during this outage. We > know it is very stressful for all of you and we hope to resolve this > as soon as we can. We've discussed some policy changes to keep this > from happening again, and to improve our mysql backup and restore > process in general. > > Expect another message when we begin restoring databases. > _______________________________________________ > Hosting mailing list > Hosting@...2167... > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/hosting > > -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab _______________________________________________ Hosting mailing list Hosting@...2167... http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/hosting ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-docs] Website Down
by Maren Hachmann 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Hi Martin, despite all this mess, I wish you a happy Sysadmin Day :) Thanks for keeping us informed and dealing with the flood of bug reports! > We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if > you've written something recently and would like content from the backup > let me know. - Yes. There are a few things: I had just changed all those Windows download links to the non-sf addresses (which seems a bad move now... but I couldn't foresee this... - we wouldn't have those Windows dl bug reports and unhappy users now if I had not changed them.... :-( - can't kick myself as hard as I'd like to...). When OSUOSL has brought the db back, it would be good if you could restore the Windows downloads pages for all languages, *if* it still seems a good idea to use our own file archive instead of the sf ones until they are in the resources system. Also new: - Animation page (all languages) - A few smaller changes to the FAQ (at least German, English) - To-Do list (all languages) - Contribute page had been updated (at least German, English) Thanks again, Maren We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded > gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone. > > Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from > April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some > errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part > of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if > we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the > future. > > Thanks for your attention. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs

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Website Down
by Martin Owens 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Dear inkscape devels, docs and users, OSUOUL had a major database error (they accidentally dropped all their databases from their master database). They're restoring currently from a backup from two weeks ago, so any changes to the website in the last two weeks will need to be recreated. We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if you've written something recently and would like content from the backup let me know. We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone. Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the future. Thanks for your attention. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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