Inkscape 0.92pre2 (beta) released
by Bryce Harrington
A new 0.92pre2 source package has been released and can be downloaded
from:
https://inkscape.org/en/download/source/
I'm calling this the Inkscape 0.92 'beta'. All scheduled features are
complete at this point, and bug fixing work is mostly finished (except
for a few remaining known issues we're tracking).
Packagers are encouraged to prepare binary packages for the platforms we
support.
Testers are encouraged to install and use this as if it were the
release. At this point we're primarily looking for a) packaging errors,
b) installation and build breakages, and c) regressions from recent bug
fixes. If you find particularly severe/critical issues, feel free to
contact me about them. Ordinary bugs should be entered into the release
notes as Known Issues, and worked on in trunk for 0.93 or 0.92.1.
Users are welcome to use this as well, just make sure to plan on
upgrading to the actual release when it arrives; there are still a few
more odds and ends we intend to add to the release.
I'll follow up later with an update on our release status and some
follow-up tasks.
Thanks,
Bryce
7 years, 1 month
Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-translator] Which translations should be included in 0.92 release?
by Sylvain Chiron
Le 16/10/2016 à 20:13, Duarte Ramos a écrit :
> One other offtopic nitpicking: Statistics came through just fine, but
> why are languages with 0% progress shown with a full green progress bar?
> Is this a glitch?
> Those bars seem to be drawn by the system, in this case Windows 7 for
> me, so maybe people in Linux/Mac will see it differently. It's the same
> on the website so it's not just an attachment thing.
Should be your mail reader or browser, but I guess you didn’t read the
column headers well…
I don’t see any languages with 0% progress. I only see « am » with 8086
untranslated strings, all other ones have more translations — :).
I agree for including incomplete/outdated translations.
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Sylvain
7 years, 1 month
Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-translator] Which translations should be included in 0.92 release?
by Victor Westmann
Hi there,
I lost enthusiasm. I got the pt_BR translation file already in 50% and
could raise it to 62% but it cost me 2 or 3 full days. In this journey,
being alone, is more or less a burden.. I wish I could team up with Duarte
who is a disciplined and diligent translator... but for pt_PT and not
pt_BR. hehe.
It's tough. I believe that, without help from more pt_BR translators, I
will not be able to finish this file on time. :-(
I wish I knew pt_PT to team up with Duarte.
--Victor Westmann
2016-10-16 11:13 GMT-07:00 Duarte Ramos <duarte.framos@...400...>:
> Hey everyone.
>
> I am currently working on the European Portuguese pt_PT translation for
> Inkscape, but given the outdated and messy state of the current translation
> I decided to start from scratch.
> I started very recently and make slow progress as time allows. I'm
> currently under 2% completion, it will never be complete in time for 0.92
> release, not even on par with the existing progress so for pt_PT.
>
> For that reason I'd say either go with the current one as previous
> releases or totally exclude it from 0.92. There always pt_BR as fallback
> which seems to be in a better state.
> As general rule, I'd say incomplete/outdated translation is better than no
> translation at all, so I'd include anything that has any modest progress
> and it may even encourage some contributions. What do you Think?
>
>
> One other offtopic nitpicking: Statistics came through just fine, but why
> are languages with 0% progress shown with a full green progress bar? Is
> this a glitch?
> Those bars seem to be drawn by the system, in this case Windows 7 for me,
> so maybe people in Linux/Mac will see it differently. It's the same on the
> website so it's not just an attachment thing.
>
>
> Best Regards, Duarte
>
> On 16-10-2016 18:49, Eduard Braun wrote:
>
> (CCing the "translators" list, since this concerns them, too, but please
> keep discussion on "devel")
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the progress of updating the Windows installer for 0.92 release and
> asked myself which languages should be included in the final package?
> Are there some guidelines or do we simply include all of them, even if
> they're mostly outdated? How was this handled in the past?
>
> Since languages seem to be hardcoded in "src/inkscape-preferences.cpp" we
> probably can not just drop those languages during packaging. Otherwise the
> language would still be offered as a choice, even if it's not present
> (which is is also an issue if the user decides not to install translations
> during installation).
>
> FYI current language statistics are attached (I hope it get's through),
> otherwise a copy is available from [1].
>
> Best Regards,
> Eduard
>
>
> [1] https://inkscape.org/de/gallery/item/10140/po_statistics_0.92.x.html
>
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7 years, 1 month
Which translations should be included in 0.92 release?
by Eduard Braun
(CCing the "translators" list, since this concerns them, too, but please
keep discussion on "devel")
Hi all,
I'm in the progress of updating the Windows installer for 0.92 release
and asked myself which languages should be included in the final package?
Are there some guidelines or do we simply include all of them, even if
they're mostly outdated? How was this handled in the past?
Since languages seem to be hardcoded in "src/inkscape-preferences.cpp"
we probably can not just drop those languages during packaging.
Otherwise the language would still be offered as a choice, even if it's
not present (which is is also an issue if the user decides not to
install translations during installation).
FYI current language statistics are attached (I hope it get's through),
otherwise a copy is available from [1].
Best Regards,
Eduard
[1] https://inkscape.org/de/gallery/item/10140/po_statistics_0.92.x.html
7 years, 1 month
Diff support between revisions of an svg with hieghlighing support.
by Jason (spot) Brower
I think it would be nice to have a diffing tool inside of Inkscape.
The idea is that we find areas that have change between two versions and it
would visually hande a box around the idea showing what had changed.
Ideally as a lay that can be turned on and off.
I know my work would be better if there was a way to show what changed
between versions without needing to look at the svg code itself.
Do you think this kind of thing could work?
BR,
Jason Brower
7 years, 1 month
how about some marketing and outreach?
by Brynn
Hi Friends,
I've recently been contacted by a long time Inkscape user and former
active moderator on InkscapeForum.com. (Technically she still is a
moderator, but not active for some years.) And I think she also used to
help with bug management and testing. And many of you may recognize her as
the co-author of PacktPublishing's "Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook".
Mihaela, aka prkos, is ready to become reinvested in the project,
after having drifted away to work on other things for awhile. She has some
good ideas for outreach and bringing in more diversity, and I think some
ideas related to marketing, which she will have to explain, because I don't
understand that kind of thing. I don't know if she wants to help with bug
management again, as before, but maybe after she catches up to the version
0.92 era. And she said she wouldn't be opposed to working on a sequel to
the Packt project.
Ooohh! Mihaela, I forgot to mention this privately. Recently
within the project, there has been some drive to create an open manual,
which would be editable by the community. And we also want to make it more
of a step by step manual, and more focussed to beginners. And this is as
opposed to our current manual, which is copyrighted (can only be edited by
the author), presently out of date, and a little more theoretical, and
helpful for advanced users. It's a great manual, which has served the
project well. But there have been a lot of complaints from beginners about
a lack of documentation at their level. So we don't want to get rid of
Tav's manual, but just have another manual available.
The current state of those discussions is to use a project which was
started by a French team (aaii, why can't I remember to save that link?!).
It's another FLOSS manual. We're waiting for it to be translated to
English. And once it is, we hope to be able to use it as a base to build
the new open manual from. Maybe you might like to help with that?
Also, some of her ideas will help us with the forum project too!
And I'll be letting the committee know about that privately.
So, welcome back Mihaela! As you remember the developers' mantra -
code first, discuss later - please feel free to jump back in with both feet
:-)
All best,
brynn
7 years, 1 month
Old databases, drop or migrate?
by Chris Keltz
Hello Inkscape devs,
I'm Chris with the OSU Open Source Lab. We're in the process of taking
things off an old database host, and we ran across a couple of Inkscape
databases we're not sure are still being used. They are both currently on
db3.osuosl.org. The first is inkscape_qmail, accessible by
inkscape_qmail@...3433... The second is inkscape-mantis, accessible by
inkscape-mantis@...3433... Please let me know if these are droppable,
or if they need to be migrated to our new host.
Thanks,
Chris Keltz
Student System Administrator
OSU Open Source Lab
7 years, 1 month
0.92 release, windows packaging, .msi vs .exe
by the Adib
Hello All,
I put in the gallery the current screenshots of the .msi installer.
https://inkscape.org/en/~theAdib/galleries/win32-installer-screenshots/
I would recommend not to publish the .exe installer for the 0.92 release.
reason:
The .exe installer is based on NSIS scripts whereas the .msi installer is
based on native MS installer toolset.
They do not harmonize together, that means a .msi does not detect existing
.exe installed Inkscape and vice versa.
There will be definatelly problems when both systems are installed "in
parallel".
The .msi installer has advantages in deeper system integartion
(distributable in MS domains) and save removal but currently lacks
translation.
I do not have download numbers of .msi vs .exe but I think we should prefer
the .msi as nr 1.
Could we come here to a consens not to publish .exe installer?
Best regards,
Adib.
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