Dev Meeting notes 2020-12-09
Present: Elendil, Ishaan, René, Tav, Mike, Jonathan, Martin
Elendil was fixing some bugs on master that interfered with testing.
Ishaan has been working on
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6844. Martin also
has been working on refactoring markers, so there's some collaboration
possibility here.
Martin: The CMYK Export supports most features now, except for text.
Also some refactoring because markers code was duplicated all over the
codebase, and went out of sync over time. Needs to talk to Tav about
text. There are many different ways of writing out text. Tav prefers to
use a method that is relatively easy to read back in.
Tav has been working on fixing a PDF import bug where text was
incorrectly positioned.
Mike has discovered that the results from our LCH color picker differes
from what browsers do when the color doesn't convert properly to sRGB.
There is an iterative function defined in the CSS Colors Level 4 spec
how to deal with those. Mike is working on integrating this into
Inkscape. (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#binsearch)
Martin remarks that this is related to "rendering intent" in LCMS2.
Needs some more discussion on whether CSS reinvented this concept or
accidentally fixed it to some specific value.
Martin is looking into support for HDR colors in Inkscape. Some
technical discussion about color spaces follows.
Mike also added an experimental XYZ color picker.
René contacted MacStadium again, they are in the final stages of
drafting a sponsorship agreement (mostly their internal process), so we
can get some more infrastructure. He will let us know if there is
something to sign. New infrastructure is expected to be available for
Christmas.
The GNOME project is also in talks with MacStadium (as in, René is also
running CI for them). Currently the infrastructure is not shared between
GNOME and Inkscape, but René might suggest this again.
He has also begun to rework how we package Python. Currently they are
using custom shell scripts, but a build tool like jhbuild would be
nicer. Hence, he's transitioning to Conan (https://conan.io/). This work
will also allow to transition to Python 3.12 on Mac.
Martin asks whether we should together a proposal to fund bugfixing for
1.4.1. Elendil agrees.
- backporting
- updating translation
- updating graphics
- fix some egregious issues reported since 1.4
Some additional discussion about asking for donations. Suggestions:
Downloadable swag after you donate (e.g. some kind of file that makes
the user interface shiny) or a dialog that pops up periodically like in
Thunderbird.
Martin remarks that this is not only about donations for the project,
but also giving users means to participate (as contributors, or as
decision-makers when contributing financially).
Maybe even some kind of "Reddit Place" instead that it's a huge shape
builder image where users can "buy" areas that they can draw on? Would
be a nice experiment.
The dev team plans to put together a proposal for an infrastructure
project to update the website (Django) and add stripe integration.
