January 2018 - Inkscape Devel

0.92.3 Release Planning Meeting ~ Feb 2nd
by Bryce Harrington 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

After the last board meeting we discussed maybe starting 0.92.3 in Feb. I'd like to hold a kickoff meeting following this Friday's board meeting to get started. Hopefully this should be a straightforward release but worthwhile to touch base with everyone just in case. For this meeting I want to just get a handle on the status of everything and flag tasks needing done. I'd like to also get a rough timeline figured out. Date: Fri, 2nd Feb, 2018. Time: 11:00 PST / 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET Where: #inkscape-devel on freenode What: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92.3 Agenda: + Status of the 0.92 tree - Any pending patches we should track? - Are there more fixes worth cherrypicking from trunk? - Are the release notes up to date? + Status of platform packaging - Any new issues compared with 0.92.2? - Are all 0.92.2 packagers available for this go around? + Release cycle plans - One pre-release? - Rough dates + Conditions that might cause release delay + Looking forward --- 0.93 - Dependency versions needing revved? - Remaining licensing issues? - GTK+ 3 stabilization / Windows performance bug - Other stabilization work needed? + Next meeting? - March 2nd following board meeting? + Other business Bryce

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Feb 2nd, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings (Note that a Release Team meeting will follow immediately after. The Vectors Team will be meeting the next day, Saturday the 3rd.) Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) [doctormo] + Merchandise sales [crogers] + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + LGM 2018 [Tav] + GSoC [ScislaC] + Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ♦ ACTION: Re-ping Madras Printer's and Lithographer's Assoc. [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Find out who did the Indian language translation [Tav/Moini] ♢ ACTION: Calls for fundraising for the hackfest [bryce/Moini] ♦ ACTION: Arrange vote for Boston hackfest [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Arrange vote for LGM [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Port credential repo changes from bzr to git [doctormo] ♦ ACTION: Move credentials repo to a new git project [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Ping Brett regarding DigitalOcean [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Investigate CloudScale.ch [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Kickoff the 0.92.3 release [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on Budget 2018 [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Connect with Diego about CMYK planning [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Kickoff GSoC 2018 registration [ScislaC] ♢ ACTION: Make a list of projects for cleaning up our code base [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Pursue the RedHat option for the hackfest [doctormo] ♢ ACTION: Send invites to old Inkscapers to attend hackfest [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Collect CMYK ideas into Color_management wiki page [alface] Bryce

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website unavailable
by brynn 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hi Friends, Just in case it's not already known, the website is down. First noticed about an hour ago. All best, brynn

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credentials repo moved to new location
by Bryce Harrington 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Just a quick note that the credentials repository has been moved, as discussed last board meeting. When we switched from bzr to git, the credentials repository was moved over as a branch of the inkscape codebase. Apart from being awkward it also made it very slow to download (since it was downloading the entirety of the inkscape code history, only to replace all the code with the credentials stuff...) Anyway, I exported the git history and imported it as a new project, which will live here in its new permanent location: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/infra/credentials I've also made this private to logged in Inkscape project team members only. No one outside our project should really need this so I think that is appropriate. Let me know if you run into problems, and I can adjust permissions and things to improve convenience. (You'll also notice I'm putting project internal service-ish stuff like this into a subcategory 'infra'. As we go through updating mailing lists, wiki, forums and other such things we can use this to collect random bits and pieces like service configs here.) Bryce

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vectors meeting this Sat? same time?
by brynn 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Like the title. Thanks, brynn

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Request for Inkscape wiki account
by Máirín Duffy 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Hi! :) I would like to request an account on the Inkscape wiki. Red Hat is hosting a hackfest in our offices and I'd like to be able to update the attendee list on the wiki with local Red Hatters who would like to attend. Cheers, ~m

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LPE Refactor
by Jabier Arraiza 28 Jan '18

28 Jan '18

Hi All. I Just do a big refactor of the LPE "Live Effects" system in this WIP MR: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/190 Please check it if you get time and provide feedback before merge. Regards, Jabier.

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Stickers ordered: 1k on the way
by C R 27 Jan '18

27 Jan '18

So who wants some? Email me quantity and mailing address to get your mits on some for your Inkscape promoting needs. Doc has the first 200, which leaves 800 up for grabs. Lemmeknow -C

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Sticker drama
by C R 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

Okay, so I made the mistake of paying a sticker printing company before I got a proof. I did this because usually printers are trustworthy enough to A) give a good proof, B) Accept changes needed, or C) refund if they can't (or in this case, just won't) do what you want). I'm sorry to say that discountsticekrprinting.co.uk can't handle any of these things. So I've learned a valuable lesson - never pay before proof. Since I can't seem to get my money back from them due to their customer-hostile purchase agreement, I'm going to have to get substantially larger stickers from them to compensate for their incompetence. - Something that will not look silly with a 3mm gap shoe-horned into the space around the graphic on the sticker. My questions are these: 1. How big would you like to see? 2. How big is useful or tolerable? :) 3. How big is "way too big" The choices are: 60mm, 80mm, 100mm Part of me wants to go like HUGE (100mm), because maybe we could sell them for a few bucks each to recoup sticker costs - maybe people would like to slap one on a CPU case or a skateboard or bumper of a car or something. I'm going with some other company for the 40mm silver stickers, since they look absolutely silly with an enforced 3mm gap around the edge - None of the other companies I've gotten quotes from are willing to inflict that nonsense on their customers. Any thoughts? Thanks. -C

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Inkscape LiveAnimate plugin or Fork
by openInvent 25 Jan '18

25 Jan '18

I want to know how simple it would be to disable the GUI and mouse cursor on hot key press to draw directly to screen for Desktop cam live animations. Also want to set move group functionality to wasd , arrow keys or numpad to control 3 things at once. Or use mouse to move and possible mouse wheel to zoom or snap to splines pathings and mouse wheel tweening. Any ideas on how much work this feature would be? I can fork over 50USD if someone FORKS the Inkscape. For LiveAnimate. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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