Inkscape 1.3 About Screen Contributor Voting until April 9
by Maren Hachmann
Hi Inkscape Contributors!
It's that time of the year again :)
We invite you to cast your vote on the 5 awesome About Screen Contest
submissions that were favorited by 242 voting Community members.
For this year's About Screen Contest, we have had 55 submissions from
the Community, 49 of which met the requirements (licensing, branding etc.).
These are the 5 items they liked the most:
* "A long journey“ by Chris Hildenbrand
* "Contest“ by Djelita Abderrahmane
* "Creative Growth“ by Chris Hildenbrand
* "Isometric Madness“ by Denis Kuznetsky
* "Portal“ by Milad Moosavi
(in alphabetical order)
In this two-step selection process, it is now up to us, the Inkscape
Contributors, to select the About Screen that we want for Inkscape 1.3.
It's going to be a difficult choice, as they are all so cool :D
Step 1:
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Make sure that you are an Inkscape Member (see previous message or link
below), and if you're not one yet, apply for membership and ask 3 of
your team mates or other contributors whom you have worked with to
confirm your membership.
More info: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/
Step 2:
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Visit
https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-13-about-screen-contributo...
and rank the 5 images by clicking on the little circle right below them
in order of preference (most liked first).
The voting period starts NOW, and ends on April 9, 23:59 UTC.
Voting is on the website only.
The announcement of the winning entry is planned for April 11.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's About Screen Contest!
Maren
7 months, 3 weeks
Become an Inkscape Project Member!
by Maren Hachmann
Dear Inkscape Contributors,
it's time to make your Inkscape Membership official!
With that come voting rights for all kinds of regular contributors -
like translators, social media managers, forum moderators, documentation
writers, testers, bug managers, ... - (not only developers anymore!).
The first occasion we will be using that for is the Contributor Vote for
the ongoing About Screen Contest (contributor voting starts tomorrow,
and will end on April 9, 23:59 UTC, there will be a separate email for
that!), which is also going to be a bit of a test of the membership
system for the upcoming Inkscape PLC election.
Read all about it here:
https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/
If you have any questions or are looking for people to confirm your
membership request, please ask away in the #general rocket.chat channel.
In some cases, it will be helpful to state the nature of your
contributions to the project, or to approach those directly who know
about your contributions.
Please approve membership requests of those whom you know to be a
contributor by first hand experience, and do not approve other
membership requests, as in the worst case, when the person is not a
contributor, that can get your own membership revoked.
Thank you to the PLC and the SFC for getting that set up for us, to the
website team for providing infrastructure for it, and to the Vectors
team for writing about it!
Maren
8 months
Problem- (P6-Refactoring) Remove dependence on object-set.h in files in src/livarot directory.
by Kaustubh Kongile
Hello,
Thank you for considering me to present my suggestions for removing the
dependence on object-set.h before submitting my proposal for gsoc 2023.
Here are the steps we can follow to remove the dependence on object-set.h:
Identify where object-set.h is being used in the code by looking for
#include statements and code that directly uses classes or functions
defined in the file.
Determine the functionality being used from object-set.h to find suitable
alternatives.
Research and find alternative solutions or libraries that provide similar
functionality.
Modify the code to use the alternative solution or library, replacing any
references to object-set.h and modifying code that uses its classes or
functions.
Once we have verified the changes, we can commit them and submit them for
review.
I hope this information is helpful. If you have any questions or concerns,
please let me know.I am not sure about the amount of time required to
resolve this issue, so I would appreciate your guidance and suggestions on
the matter.
Best regards,
Kaustubh
8 months
Developer Meeting Notes, March 26th 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
This is our first online meeting since the hackfest. Last week's
meeting was canceled, so don't worry, you haven't missed any previous
notes.
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/
Present this week: Lazur, Martin, Jonathan, Tav, Thomas, Jabier, NPJ,
Marc, Mikekov, Rafael
Next Meeting: Monday, April 3rd
# Release Plans
The alpha release has been uncertain because of reports of deadly
crashes on undo. The reports have been a little anecdotal though. The
general consesnsus at the meeting is that we should release the alpha
right away and then re-release a new alpha if this issue can be
confirmed in the latest versions after several fixes. Users can be
asked to be brave so long as they understand the risks.
Martin created the 1.3 and 1.3-alpha0 release objects on the website
and Marc is planning on pushing the alpha out in the next two days. The
mushroom about screen was used as the graphic for the alpha.
We have a few outstanding merge requests which we can merge
immediately. The developer team spent some time looking at these merge
requests for our activity at the end of the meeting to clear the
backlog for the release.
# Jabier
Wants to merge some branches, some are minor fixes but need to have
better and more descriptions to help reviewers understand what they do,
we managed to merge two and attach reviewers to three others. Martin
wanted to make sure the corners LPE upgrade is scheduled for after 1.3
since it's quite large.
# Jonathan
Some reverse engineering of the AI format and helping Nicco putting
together the ai importer. Progress is going well, text is likely to be
supportable.
Asked tav about the mesh gradient and having a number of nodes on the
edges of the patches.
Gtk4 proposal is ready and waiting to be sent to the PLC. An email got
lost and has been resent to Marc and Tav was asked to push the PLC
election, nominating the proctor Pono to run the election.
# Marc
Has been busy and sick, with appologies.
# Martin
Recovering from travel. Made a video for the hackfest which has been
well recieved. Bug accellerator program fixes are submitted and merge
request management and pushing for the alpha release. Some website
fixes for the about screen contest voting.
# MikeKov
Looking at a bug #4186 with the new preserve path functionality and
trying to work around a fitting alogorythem. We could detect when it's
not going to work well and then try a different method, or try to
remove the constraints but with bad output. Bug has been assigned and
tagged for 1.3.
#NPJ
Experimenting with Apple archetecture.
#Rafael
Worked on bugs as part of the accelerator program. Fixed four issues
this week, one fix actually fixed two issues. Currently looking into a
regression in patterns, where you can't see a marker using a pattern as
a context-fill. Pair up with Martin to look into the problem.
#Tav
Spent a little time in the last week playing with Gtk4, try out the new
Gtk List View, it wasn't performing quite as expected. It only
generates widgets for things which are on the screen, but this makes
the scrolling weird. Made a lsit of 10,000 items, it would scroll for a
little bit but then it would jump around.
# Thomas
Doing some experiments for how to fix menus in macOS, contuing the work
from the hackfest to see if there's an upstream patch that can be
created.
# Team Activity
We looked at five merge requests with the Approve Please tag, and
merged two, and assigned the rest to reviewers for further testing.
Thanks to everyone for coming to the meeting, see you all next week!
8 months
Contribute / GSoC
by Mateus Krause
Hello people from dev mailing list,
My name is Mateus Krause and for a long time I want to contribute with
Inkscape. I've been using the program for a few years now and really
appreciate the work put into the project. I just found out that Google
Summer of Code is open and maybe this could be a good starting point for
me to help.
Currently, I study Computational Mathematics at Universidade Federal de
Minas Gerais (UFMG) - Brazil, and I have some knowledge and practical
experience in small-medium C++ projects, using Make or C-Make, external
libraries, and I think Inkscape would be a good place for me to start
contributing in a bigger project with code for the first time.
I would really be grateful if someone can help me with my GSoC
application. The suggested project ideas that catch my attention are: P9
- Path Library Improvements, I really liked this one because of my
mathematics background, and it looks fun; P12 - Customizable Appearance
of Canvas Controls, it's a part I interact very often and I really see
how this can improve the experience, I also have a background in web
dev, so dealing with CSS would not be an issue; P5 - UI-Free Inkscape,
this looks interesting because of the challenge managing dependencies. I
think I have the knowledge to complete any of this tasks, so at least
for me it would be a great opportunity to be familiarized helping in a
big community and learn with the experience.
For now, I only have gone to the "getting started with Inkscape
development" page and did the basics. As part of the application, I'm
looking the bug tracker to see what can I complete. Either way, I want
to contribute with this project, so any guidance would be awesome.
Thanks in advance.
--
Mateus Krause
8 months, 1 week
Hackfest notes from Pono
by Daniel Pono Takamori
Hey everyone,
Here are some notes I took after collecting some questions from people at
the Hackfest. I'll dump them here and here's a link to the markdown file
on Nextcloud: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/62TS2K4obzat4Rd
At the end of the week I asked the people here what they liked about
the project, what could be improved, how was the Hackfest and what can SFC
and I do to better support the project.
After I presented these comments and some of my own thoughts about them, we
opened the conversation up to discussion and the bits at the bottom are the
resulting conversations.
Thanks again for having me, and I'm looking forward to building out the
in-person events so everyone can come or participate to the best of their
abilities.
-Pono
## Things to celebrate about Inkscape and it's community
There's a good spirit of volunteering and people taking on tasks that are interesting to them. This goes both ways though and sometimes means there are tasks that get left behind for no one to pick up.
Liberal code contribution culture which has enabled lots of innovation and creativity. Receptive to new ideas.
People are empowered to express themselves, regardless of their position in the world.
People focused project, doesn't require lots of technical expertise and has a low bar to picking up.
Mature project with lots of good momentum.
People love Inkscape!
## Improvements to be made to Inkscape and it's community
Diversity of participants was something that came up a lot. Working to have better outreach to make sure all groups and teams are represented. How can we get younger users and contributors?
Make it easier for people to contribute non-code (I'm not sure what the processes around documentation, how-tos, etc work). We need better onboarding docs so we don't have to explain "basics" over and over again.
"Inkscape on Twitch" - related to other outreach efforts
Spending money... we need to come up with a more formal budget to support all teams and I (pono) think that a budget will make it easier to get money to flow since when things are within an accepted budget, it's easier to get things moving.
Listening and communicating with users - surveys, forums, Rocketchat, etc. We need more dialogue with users (technical and non). How are artists, scientists and makers using Inkscape?
Formalizing subgroups - with fear of over administering, how do we codify the teams so that they can operate autonomously but be included in all decision making processes? **pono idea - seats for each subteam on the PLC and more communication between groups**
How do we get Inkscape in schools? This is something SFC has been thinking about in general
## Hackfest
### Things that went well
Relationship building is unmatched in person. This was a great opportunity to meet and chat and the travel being handled if needed, was great.
Length was good, maybe a long weekend could get more people.
In person communication makes it much easier to clear up miscommunications and intentions.
The venue was great and everything was made easy to focus on work and relationships.
### Things to be improved
Calling it a 'Hackfest' might've discouraged teams from participating and we *need* all teams to participate.
15-25 people would be a better group.
More diversity among participants, *pono let's get some scholarships for new and minority contributors*
Open space and loud conversations made it hard to focus, providing quiet spaces would help.
More thought into how to include remote participants.
Have one with users? Does it have to be this event?
More regular cadence makes it easier to get people here.
## SFC - how can we do better and what have we done well
being clear about our limits
SFC is not just an anonymous thing to help with managing things, we need to establish a more close relationship
rewarding volunteers
financial help was great and improved attendance
Pono/SFC is very helpful for networking between FOSS projects, like introducing the right people and thus increasing the chances of successful collaborations
Be a sparring partner for discussing policy & fundamental issues, "outside" person that can help when an outsider is need. E.g. CoC issues within the PLC, election proctor
Also to escalate things within SFC if progress is slow.
SFC should monitor foundations for grant opportunities & forward them to potentially relevant member projects
making sure contracts and money flow smoothly
SFC done a good job with mediation and spending money
## Notes during discussion
hackfest rebuilds energy
5-10 is good for hacking
OutreachFest
colocating an event?
FOSDEM!
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/
conference in Northeast?
develop PenPot relationship
Jabier and Adam Belis
what we need from Inkscape to use PenPot for UI
Scribus?
Blender?
subteams
marin - didn't like term leader, have an organizer, contact, representative
can switch off!
describe as not one person, but a team collectively divvies up
responsibilities
if you want to be a formal group, you need to meet a set of criteria
jonathan and ted thinking about it
community building things
graphics for teams, hat or graphics
mousepads :P
vectors, developers, documentaion, testing, translation, UX
https://inkscape.org/user/teams/
recognized groups have duties
benefits: PLC can delegate technical decisions to dev team, outreach to
vectors, etc
formalize duties and expectations
keep outside FSA probably
partners program
GNOME has a Sponsors section
allows relationship management
*ChromeOS* ??
maybe we can talk with Google?
how to package for those chromebooks
schools
helps schools administer the program
krita and blender are on steam
maybe need someone
android?
google funding for gtk backend?
putting out more video for exposure - Chris
attractive to sponsors
build up vectors to make more content
budget for video
how does krita do it?
need to try more things
what do people like from Inkscape?
we don't really know
Youtube channel?
surveys!
demographics
working with TuxDigital
presskit
press list for SFC
Plausible
website is contributor friendly
not marketing slick friendly
branding is not a singular thing
it's there to tell your story
"the only vector software that is a community project"
more concious of public image
8 months, 2 weeks
Proposal for accelerating the GTK4 migration
by Jonathan Neuhauser
Dear Inkscape developers,
the Hackfest in Bensberg has been very productive and one of the outputs
is a proposal to accelerate the GTK4 migration, as discussed during the
recent development database. For this, we propose to hire two
contractors for a span of 4 months, one GTK expert and one Inkscape expert.
(Recently, on the PLC mailing list, I mailed around a version of the
proposal including only the GTK expert. Feedback there and further
discussions here have allowed to combine both into one proposal again.)
Please find the proposal attached, including the job postings for both.
I'll try to incorporate feedback until Sunday, March 19, so a PLC vote
can be held afterwards. Feel free to contact me via email or on RocketChat.
Best regards,
Jonathan (joneuhauser on RocketChat)
8 months, 2 weeks
Draft for a refactoring and improvement of the test suite
by paolo fx
Hello inkscapers,
I could contribute to the development of the code in my spare time if the
following idea makes sense and is of value. While talking in the #irc dev
channel and in the last developer meeting, it turned out that the test
suite in testfiles directory is somewhat messy and a refactoring could be
desirable for some reasons.
Here's my proposal. First of all, tests should be grouped in coherent and
standard categories.
A standard classification is:
end to end testing ---> integration testing ---> unit testing
This classification, translated into a dir tree would be:
----------------------------------------------------------
testfiles
|______end2end_tests
| |_______gui_tests
| |_______cli_tests
|
|______integration_tests
|
|______unit_tests
|
|______CMakeLists.txt
|
|______CTestCustom.cmake.in
|
|______README.md
[SUBDIR] gui_tests: empty for now, just add a TODO/FILL-ME note inside it.
[SUBDIR] cli_tests:
*) rendering tests are made with CLI (as the CMakeLists.txt confirms), so
they should be moved inside cli_tests. Therefore, move here svg files from
"rendering_tests" and move rendering_tests/test.sh as cli_tests/rendering.sh
*) leave here the current content of cli_tests
*) add an "images" dir containing all the graphic files
[SUBDIR] integration_tests: it will contain cpp or script files in the
form: operation1_operation2_..operationN.cpp (or .sh, or .py etc).
[SUBDIR] unit_tests:
a software unit can be meant both as:
1) (see testfiles/src/curve-test.cpp) a self-referential "concept"
2) (see testfiles/src/uri-test.cpp) as a class, or even a single
function, from the API.
The important thing is to separate unit tests from integration tests, which
are sequences of different tasks. From what I see, the "testfiles/src" dir
currently contains unit tests (if cpp files perform integration tests, they
should be moved to the testfiles/integration_tests dir)
In addition, do move lpe images here (inside an "images" dir). Add a note
on the README that lpe stuff is here (as it partially is, actually).
[FILE] CMakeLists.txt
[FILE] CTestCustom.cmake.in
[FILE] README.md: note: only ONE readme will be used for describing this
test suite. It will describe what the tests do and how to launch them
separately. It will also contain a very short mention - one or two lines -
of the model (e2e tests ---> integration tests ---> unit tests) used.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are two possible concrete values/advantages in this new struct:
1) The reordered code would be much more readable, especially in the
perspective of finding and running on the fly a specific test for a
specific need or in the perspective of adding new ones, or deleting
obsolete ones.
2) Integration tests could significantly speed up bug fixing, other than
giving a more robust validation procedure of the released software. Let me
show an example.
An integration test could consist in the same steps described in a
submitted bug:
open a file ---> modify a curve ---> apply a filter ---> export to png
In the integration_tests dir, there could be, together with test files, one
(or more than one) file called "integration_test_template.cpp", which is
meant as an example, with basic operations done sequentially (open, modify,
filter, export etc.). Then, if another example called
"integration_test_custom.cpp" is created by the developer (but not added to
the source tree and added to .gitignore), it would contain code modeled on
the basis of "integration_test_template.cpp" and it would be automatically
compiled because as a part of the CMakeLists directives. In this way, we
have a ready-to-use environment for testing the API.
So, when a nasty bug is described together with its steps, a
"integration_test_custom.cpp" file can be created on the fly by using
chunks of code taken from "integration_test_template.cpp" in order to
replicate the steps.
What do you think? And do you think that the integration_tests template
would be really useful? In this last case, could you share an example (or
more than one) of a bug that can be managed with
"integration_test_custom.cpp" so as to have a useful case study?
If the idea appears good and collects approval, I can start making a fork
and a new branch for it on my local clone.
8 months, 2 weeks
Developer Meeting March 10th 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
Another week, another developer meeting. Thank you to everyone who
responded with enthusiasm for having these notes available. I'm going
to see how long I can continue to write them for y'all.
Present: Tav, PBS, Martin, Mikekov, Jabier, Paopre, Jonathan, René,
Vaibhav
# Hackfest
The hackfest is in a few days! Most people will arrive early on Monday,
two members are arriving late in the evening and will have to book a
hotel for the night as there's pretty tight restrictions on arrival at
the venue. René will be giving further details about meals and other
details, check the wiki for full details.
This goes for leaving the venue too. We will be expected to be entirely
gone by Friday and 6pm. Several people will be making their way to the
city to hang out, or book into their next hotels if they're leaving at
a later date.
We have a bunch of ideas of things to do during the hackfest. Several
people will probably want to conference seperately or hack in their
hotel rooms if there's too much activity in the conference room.
# Release
Alpha, is held up by a few merge requests, we're trying to unclog the
delay.
- Marc wasn't present, but we have some questions to ask about how
the release process is going.
- René has everything in thanks to Mikekov
- Jabier has two merge requests, we reviewed them. A Drag and drop
has been tested but should be defered as it's not high priority.
- PBS has a few issues he wants to fix before the alpha is released,
One is an async rendering issue with rectangles not being selectable
immediately after creation. The other is a missing library on windows
called 'libangle' detected by lb90.
- Reverting the Undo changes is critical! We looked at a reported
crash together in the meeting, but this seems unrelated to the
reversion.
- The opengl performance on default Gtk on X11 can go down to 1fps
with serious issues. It's a problem in Gtk and upstream gives approval
for simply forcing gtk to use the image backend renderer. Questions
were asked about what was the right course of action.
# Other Items
- Martin has refactored the export dialog previews to not block on
loading large files. Lots of improvements to the export dialog.
- The font dialog has a small issue with folders in the font dialog
being created, it's creating a system folder when it shouldn't be.
- Nico has made good progress with the ai importer this week. He's
working about 20 hours a week and progress is steady.
- Paopre asked about his proposal to reorganise the test suites so
each of the unit tests, integration tests, and others into more formal
and defined directories. Advised to document the proposal and present
it to the developer team so we can have time to look over it.
# Group Activity
This week we skipped doing the merge request review and instead did
some code review. Walking through the changes involved in the export
dialog changes. See
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5148 for details.
Thanks everyone for coming. The next scheduled meeting will be after
the hackfest, but we'll likely have one at the end of the hackfest
instead. Keep up to date with the calendar
at https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Inkscape Developer Team
8 months, 3 weeks
