Dear Developers,
Present: Martin, Jonathan, Marc, Nicco, Tav, Thomas, James
Don't forget to vote for your about screen favorite! Developers briefly
discussed their favorites.
https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-13-about-screen-contributor-…
The first alpha was released at the weekend. The developer team gave
thanks to Marc, René and Maren for their hard work on getting the
release out and everyone notified and coordinated.
One thing to note is that because of a last minute crash fix (by
Martin) the alpha tag is one commit behind the actual released code. We
could re-tag it, but we want to avoid force pushing when possible.
Martin is making a video to invite people to test the alpha. Hopefully
including a demostration of the crash features and how to report a bug
to the project. Martin will post a link when it's ready.
Jonathan has been working on two things. Guiding the AI importer to
help Nicco improve the speed of the parser, with more specific python
code. Completing the decoding of how text is stored in the illustrator
file format which is complex binary format which isn't documented
anywhere so needs careful reading. Text is not on the roadmap for the
ai importer currently, but it is ready to be implemented when the time
comes.
Nicco has been writing more custom parsers for the ai importer and
gearing up for the next steps. The contract is aproximately 40%
complete and we expect that now the parsing elements are coming to
their conclusion that the rest of the implementation will speed up from
here. Shapes with properties and colors.
Martin wanted to know if there was a testing plan scheduled. Jonathan
says there's no specific schedule, but in a aprox. two months they
should be ready to open up testing to regular users and hopefully have
most of the elements supported.
Nicco had a question about translations using weblate. Inkscape tried
it in the past and it was too slow. Recommending Nicco talk to Maren
and the translator team specifically about what tools they need and
their assessment of the weblate and other possible translation
technologies since the dev team isn't the right people to ask.
Gtk4 vote is waiting on completion. The hiring comittee will meet after
the plc meeting and a new mailing list is being created to handle the
two job parts. One for internal and one for external. Marc created a
mailing list and invited all the prospective partipants in preparation
for the comittees meeting.
The proctor vote for the elections is going to take another two days,
but has three votes in favour so has already passed. Elections should
follow after that.
GSoC proposals ends tomorrow. We have six proposals but some of them
are not eleigable. We looked over several propositions and they will be
formally ranked and we will select which ones we want to then push
forwards. The GSoC team will meet at 7pm on Thursday to talk about the
proposals.
PLC review meeting is this weekend, Marc sends his appologies as he
will not be able to attend.
Tav made an attempt at converting the event controllers for Gtk4 and
says he basically failed. The major reason is that this particular
controller scheme has not been backported to Gtkmm3, when the C version
was attempted it causes issues. This is the biggest bottle neck for Gtk
development. He made a sandbox program to text each version
https://gitlab.com/Tavmjong/gtk_sandbox/-/tree/master/gtk_event There's
a GSoC Gtk4 proposal which can be coordinated with this work and the
prospective contracts.
Martin has published a blog post with Rafael and himself for the issues
fixed in the accelerator program. Please see
https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/march-bug-accelerator-2023/
We reviewed four merge requests in our meeting activity: 4396, 4105,
3938 and 5217. None were merged, but some tagged and commented on to
push them forwards. Reminder: this acivity works by picking the four
non-draft oldest updated merge requests. Currently we have 141 open
merge requests, but many of them are drafts.
Thanks everyone for coming to the meeting. Next meeting is Tuesday
April 11th
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Inkscape 1.3 alpha0
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Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 is now available for testing for all three supported
operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)!
Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use,
but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the
actual release this summer.
You can download it from:
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3alpha0/
When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as:
* Shape builder
* On-Canvas Pattern Editing
* Pattern Editor
* Page margin & bleed
* Document Resources Dialog
* Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog
and the (now optional) persistent snap bar
* Font Collections
* Syntax highlighting in XML Editor
* LPE dialog user interface redesign
* Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded
rendering
* Better PDF import
… and more, see the release notes draft in the Wiki at:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3
If you find any issue with this alpha version, please
report it to https://inkscape.org/report
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Join an Inkscape project team
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Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas:
code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach!
The main ways to get involved are listed on
https://inkscape.org/contribute/
and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/
Thanks to everyone involved in this alpha release!
-- The Inkscape team
