Hey everyone,
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/
Attending: Martin, Mc, Tav, Sean, Roland
We talked about highlighting all the fixes we've managed to do and
which ones to focus on.
Roland gives us an update for our bug accelerator program. He's added a
bunch of issues to 1.5 that he's confirmed them, he's moving swiftly to
fix issues that have been around for a while so it's shaping up to be a
very useful program. Roland noticed that there's issues that were old
and wanted to include some of those into the program so we could make
progress on our backlog of issues.
Sean and Michael have been fixing things in really nice speed and
keeping the bug fixing to 60% even with the influx of new issues.
We talked about reporting aznd getting a sense of how much of the
program is useful.
Martin asked about the blocking problems; it appears that now we've
unblocked he organisation of issues and having some really great
developers that it's UX/UI that is causing a bottleneck. Often
developers have to merge changes without UX review. Martin wants to
factor that into a possible future program.
Roland thinks it might be a good idea for diciplin to have a weekly
report, a list of issues worked on. He thinks the program should be
done for 6 months for this type of master-branch focused program as we
should have more long term consistancy.
Tav has been getting burned out on testing; which any sort of changes
makes tests fail very easily. Found a PDF export bug for Right To Left
text. Color format fonts is basically done, but with test passing.
We might need to split out tests out into release tests and development
tests. Because some of the tests are things we should work through for
a release and not on every commit.
We talked about pdf export bug with right to left text. Martin gave
some advice and asked maybe if Charlotte is available to help.
Martin has been working on recovering from illness and slowly doing
rendering engine work. Has been taking the bold step of removing the
old rendering engine and then working through all the compile issues.
Roland supports mesh gradient crashes; Martin says that these issues
could be solved by the new engine so we can delay fixes until we know
the impact there.
Roland asks is there any process for choosing what goes into a release.
Martin and Roland talk about how resource allocation works and how we
can improve things in the future.
Thanks everybody for coming,
Next meeting Saturday 1st August
Hey Devs,
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/
Attending: Martin, Sean, Roland, Tav, Josh
Tav has been working on fonts support. Found an interesting problem,
added a new CSS attribute which enables the OPZ (optical size) axis. An
interesting issue with the flood filter from being compiled. Has an MR
which removes the 500x font size in 8041.
Martin asks about font fallbacks and Tav asks about optical size
support in pdfoutput.
Martin asks to confirm that the optical is applied at document scale
and not at zoom scale. Tav confirmed this is how he's done it.
Sean is working on merge requests. One issue which he had a question
about, the layers and objects dialog current is confused about
selecting a layer, and multiple selection of layers and changing a
layer in the layers manager. Martin explains the Ux situation and the
history for why we are here and then suggests that using shift or other
modifiers should always nulifiy layer manager functionality and focus
on object selections.
A small discussion about pages.
Martin talks about his work; reserected the group translucency work
which is now ready. A small node editing feature to confine to the
curve of the line with cleanups. The rendering engine work is paused
but is a bit delayed by the next steps which is going to be the final
wiring which will upset a lot of functionality, and a small discussion
about the dificulty with reviewing such a large merge request.
Roland reports the happenings in the bug accelerator program; 60% done,
various testing to make sure we are incorperating a lot of issues to
improve the quality of the release.
We talk about an AppImage issue that causes tablets not to work in X11.
Martin suggests strongly that this shouldn't be a blocker, and
shouldn't be on BAP's list since it's a minor issue of a testing build
for a small number of users. Tav agrees and wants to have a look at it
himself, since he has a tablet and an X11 distro to test in.
Josh asks for the new rendering engine merge request to test:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7767 Martin warns
that running inkscape won't see much, only runnings tests will exercise
it until they can wire in the actual rendering.
Thanks everyone for coming to the developer meeting.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
