January 2019 - Inkscape Devel

Issue tracking for Inkscape moves to Gitlab
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

Hi all, As of this week, the Inkscape project is shifting to Gitlab for issue tracking in place of Launchpad. https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/issues We've been using Gitlab for our code hosting and other purposes for a year and a half now[1], and have found it to be reliable and convenient. We didn't migrate Issue Tracking until now, so we could take time to make sure we had a plan: 1. Going forward, new bug reports should be filed only in Gitlab. 2. Launchpad will remain available as a historical archive of our bug reports. Filing bugs there will remain possible for now, but discouraged. 3. Bugs in Launchpad that are still reproducible in Inkscape 0.92.4 or newer can be re-filed on Gitlab and closed on Launchpad. We are planning efforts to help organize the migration work and keep track of progress. More info on this will be coming soon. Eventually, when the necessary bugs have been migrated, bug reporting in Launchpad will be shut off. We're enthused about this change, and hope you too will find gitlab a more user friendly way to report issues, and we'd love your help triaging and solving Inkscape bugs. Bryce 1: https://inkscape.org/news/2017/06/10/inkscape-moves-gitlab/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PPA breakage? (was Re: Inkscape hackfest in Pasadena)
by Bryce Harrington 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Heya Alex, I looked into this myself, the situation turned out to be a dependency issue with libpng that is particular only to Xenial, and only occurring on the trunk-daily PPA builds. Essentially, trunk needs libpng16 now but it has libpng12, and other stuff breaks if we try and force libpng16. We ended up just deciding that since Xenial is old, probably not worth the trouble to keep it active in the PPA, so I dropped it from the PPA. I got all the other PPA builds up to date. The stable PPA is updated to the 0.92.4 tag, and the stable-daily PPA had an invalid recipe so I fixed that too. Everything seems happily building packages. Bryce On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:59:18AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Would you be able to look today into why we're getting error messages > for the PPA's? I was going to investigate yesterday but ran out of > time. > > We're wanting the PPAs to be available for folks both for getting the > tagged INKSCAPE_1_0_ALPHA builds, as well as the 0.92.4 release. > > Thanks, > Bryce

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Edit in wiki + Request for account
by Aditya Sher 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Hello, I was reading the contribute wiki. (Came here because automatic account creation is disabled) Below is an edit I suggest: *Link*: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_with_… *Section*: Obtaining Inkscape Source. Code: git clone <link> *Edit suggested:* *Common Error(possibly): *due to slow internet connection. error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed *Solution: * >git clone <link> --depth 1 >git fetch --unshallow *Reference: * *https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38618885/error-rpc-failed-curl-transfer-closed-with-outstanding-read-data-remaining <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38618885/error-rpc-failed-curl-transfer…>* I think if solution to common errors is provided in contribute section it will encourage newcomers to contribute. Please communicate whether this is worth adding in the wiki. Regards and thanks, Aditya.

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Need short url to redirect to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues
by C R 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

I need it for the tutorial video on how to report bugs in inkscape on the new GitLab platform. Something short like: inkscape.com/report Since I'm rushing to get the video done for release tomorrow, I'd rather not get into a long debate about what's the best way. If we make a better way later, we can change the video. Time is of the essence. :) Thanks. -C

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Build configuration for activation of path effect Fillet/Chamfer
by Johannes Madel 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi there, I would like to compile Inkscape in a way so that I can use the Fillet/Chamfer path effect. I got Inkscape compiled under a msys2 environment under windows 10 with the macro WITH_MODULES enabled, but I still cannot find the path effect in the list in the gui interface. As a codebase I use the source code from the gitlab repo and the branch 0.92.x. Am I missing something? I furthermore have not found the given macro in the source code (only one #ifdef in inkview.cpp which seems somewhat related). I would expect some constructs like: #ifdef WITH_MODULES /* some code */ #endif Is this the correct macro to define for this use case? I am not totally sure that I did the build configuration correctly. It seems that the macro definition is supposed to more or less add steps to the build configuration. Could you point me to the files where this is done. Best regards, Johannes Madel

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Prep for Inkscape 1.0 alpha
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi all, I am working on packaging issues for getting alpha put together. (Nothing major, just a couple errors in the dist scripts.) Please avoid any code changes from now until tomorrow. If you have a critical (and well-tested) bugfix it might be ok, but just check with me first before landing it. Translations, packaging work, and other non-code changes you know are 100% safe and correct, are ok to land for the next 24 hrs, but I plan to cut the branch at that point. Any other questions or concerns, just drop me an email or catch me on irc or rocketchat. Thanks, Bryce

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Pasadena Hackfest travel arrangements
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

Hi all, If you're going to be joining us in Pasadena this March, please get your travel arrangements made this weekend, to avoid higher airfare costs. Remember that SFC's travel policy requires doing a flight search with screenshots. If you've not gone through the process, the policy's worth a review before you book flights: https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conservancy-travel-policy.html After making arrangements, add your details here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_SCALE_Attendees Bryce

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Bug reporting tutorial for Inkscape 1.0 Alpha
by C R 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

So, I'm trying to make a video for ongoing bug reporting for Inkscape in GitLab. However, there is no page https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues, which I assume is where we want most of the bugs reported, correct? The best I could do at the moment is do a tutorial for how to report an issue in the extensions sub-section: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/issues And that's because there's a big green button that says "New Issue" in the upper right corner. Is it that we have not added all the sub-sections of the project yet? Can someone add those sections so I can work them into the tutorial? (I'd do it but I'm bound to do it wrong). Let me know. In the meantime, I'm making the animation bits, in hopes of having the video ready by the 16th release of 1.0 Alpha. Thanks for the help! -C

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GSoC - [deb@...3057...: Jan. 9th IRC help for projects applying to be part of GSOC]
by Bryce Harrington 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

FYI, discussion session on GSoC, if anyone's interested. ----- Forwarded message from Deb Nicholson <deb@...3057...> ----- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:02:01 -0500 From: Deb Nicholson <deb@...3057...> To: project-reps@...3057... Subject: Jan. 9th IRC help for projects applying to be part of GSOC Hi all, Two Conservancy folks (Olly Betts of Xapian, and Xavier Dutoit of Houdini and a longtime CiviCRM GSoC admin) have generously agreed to offer their help, advice and expertise to Conservancy folks who are newer to applying for GSoC. Swing by Conservancy's IRC channel, #conservancy on freenode.net at 2pm Eastern time (aka New York Time, currently GMT -4) on Wednesday, January 9th. If you have not used IRC before, don't worry! You can access it via any web browser. Click here, https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23conservancy Then you'll just choose a nickname and you're ready to go! Here's the GSoC timeline for reference, https://developers.google.com/o pen-source/gsoc/timeline See you on Wednesday! Deb -- Deb Nicholson <deb@...3057...> Software Freedom Conservancy ----- End forwarded message -----

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Vectors Meeting in 9.5 Hours!
by Ryan Gorley 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

Hello all, This is just a reminder that the Vectors will be meeting in the #team_vectors channel of chat.inkscape.org in 9.5 hours (See time conversion <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>). There has been new interest expressed in getting involved and a lot of collaboration going on. As always we aim to keep the meeting to an hour. The agenda is not set in stone, so bring the items you're interested in and we'll see if we can remove some blockers for you! Ryan

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