Hey Everyone!
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/
Attending: Martin, Marc, Philip, Mikekov
Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/
Martin is eliminating direct access to the cairo surface raw. Philip
and Martin talked at length about the Surface API, how to render CMYK,
how to deal with speed problems and some different parts of the code
and functionality. Some ways in which the cleanup will hopefully open
us up to replacing cairo, but maybe not, it depends.
Philip has been porting UI extensions to GTK4, including Extensions
manager and clip art importer, there's been some issues with the CI
which needs to be updating. And working on the start screen lifecycle
manager, it's currently held up with testing. He wants to ask Adam for
testing but Martin is happy with the testing so far.
Mikekov has been looking into the object properties dialog for text,
which is a lot more involed than expected.
Marc has been looking at the launchpad builds and why they seem to
fail. There are test for the cms profile test. The team spend the rest
of the meeting investigating the test failures so we can keep things
moving.
Philip wants to know if the Linux CI job, he wants to to merge it with
the AppImage job to save space and CI time. Marc says that the Linux
job is a normal build and the AppImage used to have some special sauce,
Philip wants to check if this is still true. One builds in a debug and
the other builds in release mode. We have decided to remove the linux
build. The website releases app will be updated when it is done.
Thanks for reading.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
Dear Developers,
This week's developer meeting notes are below. Big thanks to everyone
who was able to come.
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/
Attending: Carlotte (cfcurtis), Martin, Tav, Ishaan, Jonathan, Mikekov
Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/
Martin talked about his work on the rendering engine getting cairo
surrfaces with multiple color space rendering. A lot converting, memory
management, pre-multiplication, understanding lcms2 input and output
limitations an doing a lot of test trials to work out how to
effectively test the changes in the engine's handling of Cairo
surfaces.
Jonthan has been mentoring on the google summer of code project. He's
been tracking a number of 1.5 issues which are upstream issue but don't
have the required issue in the upstream project. There are some
examples needed to be able to replicate the issues more easily for an
upstream developer.
Mikekov has been looking for various fixes to keep busy. Working on
object attributes dialog related features. Tav asks about the speed
problems with the Object dialog and being able to backport the fix to
1.4 if it's fixed in 1.5. We talked about node editing and making sure
that we're not doing inefficient things.
Charlotte haven't done a ton of work, but looking at PDF related issues
for import and export. Tested the odf support in capypdf. Martin talked
about a gradient export bug in capypdf. Jonathan asked if she's
interested in PDF files which don't import cleanly.
Ishaan has been working on selections and discovered that some things
are not working on master, holding ctrl for example. And some
inconsistancies with Alt. We talked about various selector issues.
Martin and Mikekov recommend making event systems robust against order
of events where possible.
Tav has been back bug fixing for 1.4, Jonathan asked about releasing a
1.4.3 after the last blocker is fixed and we are in agreement. We have
at leas 35 bugs fixed a bunch of things that are to be backported for
1.4.3 on our todo this.
Martin asked Ishaan about the Indian event. They are ordering of travel
arrangements and he will be meeting with pono to get the accommodations
paid for tomorrow.
We did a small tutorial for updating submodules and keeping things
correct, sharing commands.
Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. See you all next
time.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
