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Testing
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Sourceforge has been broken much of the week, but their twitter claims it's back online. Checking to see if our lists work once again... Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape-0.92.3pre0 source tarball now available
by Eduard Braun 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Am 04.03.2018 um 06:01 schrieb Bryce Harrington: > The 0.92.3pre0 pre-release source tarball is ready for packaging. It > can be downloaded from: > > http://alpha.inkscape.org/releases/inkscape-0.92.3pre0.tar.bz2 > > The 0.92.x branch should now be considered in Hard Freeze + String Freeze. > Please touch base with me for any changes to code or translations from > now until release. > > --- > > I'm late as usual with cutting the release, but other than that things > have gone smoothly. I would very much appreciate if people could build > and test and give me a thumbs up if everything looks normal. If no > serious issues crop up I will cut the final release next weekend. > > Bryce Thanks Bryce! As you did not publish a schedule this time you're probably only late according to your own private schedule - If you hadn't mentioned it nobody would have noticed. ;-) Windows binaries and installers are available at [1] (64-bit) and [2] (32-bit). Do you want them on the website Bryce? (I noticed you uploaded the tarball to alpha.inkscape.org -- do we even want to add a release to the releases app on the website for the pre-release then? I think it can only consume gallery items...) [1] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/INKSCAPE_0_92_3_PRE… [2] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/INKSCAPE_0_92_3_PRE… Regards, Eduard

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wiki account
by Jan 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

hi I need a wiki account to enhance a few articles.

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(re-)Introducing: ink/stitch, machine embroidery for Inkscape
by Lex Neva 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Hi folks! I'd like to reintroduce you to ink/stitch, formerly known as inkscape-embroidery. A lot has happened in the past couple of months, and we now have a thriving and growing open source community around the extension! The coolest new thing is that ink/stitch is available is a self-contained ZIP containing every Python dependency and all needed shared libraries. There's also a Windows version and a Mac build is in the works. I think you folks might be especially interested in our solution for creating the ZIP/tarball archive. We're using the excellent Pyinstaller, which seems especially well-suited to packaging inkscape extensions. Our goal is to avoid the kind of dependency hell that normally plagues extensions, especially those like ink/stitch that have their own GUI. Pyinstaller packages everything into a native executable. Interestingly, inkscape does not support native executables as extensions and requires an interpreter! We get around this by including a basic stub Python script that executes the real extension binary and forwards the results back to inkscape. Another interesting tidbit for inkscape devs is our localization support. Ink/stitch is currently available in three languages, but the INX is not yet localized. This is because inkscape's localization support for INX files depends on the extension translations being bundled with inkscape. This obviously doesn't work for an extension with a fast release cycle. We're exploring our options. We'd love it if you'd check out project it and perhaps even give it a spin. If you're interested in contributing, that'd be even cooler! Right now, more folks with programming skills would be especially helpful as we have a long feature request backlog, but any contributions would be awesome. Here's ink/stitch: https://github.com/lexelby/inkstitch Happy hacking, Lex On March 1, 2018 7:41:07 AM inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Send Inkscape-devel mailing list submissions to > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Inkscape-devel digest..." > > > > ---------- > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas (Martin Owens) > > > > ---------- > Re: [Inkscape-devel] Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas > From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> > Date: Feb 28, 9:39 PM > To: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...3641...> > CC: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, Benjamin Tissoires > <benjamin.tissoires@...400...> > > >> > I'm sorely tempted to buy one of these things to hack on it to be >> > honest. >> if you do, buy a folio. we don't know if that works yet :) > > OK I got the small folio, got a friendly discount at B&H so only $120. > >> our file format atm is just a json file with the raw data >> (x/y/pressure in >> arrays that are the strokes). we can produce whatever we want from >> that. I >> hear the mp3 patent has expired ;) > > Unfortunatly inkscape doesn't support mp3s ;-P > > Martin, > > > > > > ---------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > > ---------- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Hackfest in Three and a bit weeks
by Martin Owens 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear developers, The 2018 Inkscape hackfest will begin in three weeks. If you are coming, please add your name to the Attendees page right away: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees I'm hoping that both Alex Valavanis and Krzysztof can come to the hackfest and we hopefully will resolve anything to do with funding at the meeting tomorrow. If you think you might come, but aren't sure yet, please add yourself with a MAYBE tag to the list, so I know if the even is going to be as small as it looks like it's going to be. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Hackfests!
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi Inkscapers, As you hopefully are aware, Inkscape will be having our main 2018 hackfest in Boston at the end of March and a mini-hackfest in Seville at the end of April (at the Libre Graphics Meeting). All members of the Inkscape community are encouraged to attend! Financial support is available based on past contributions to Inkscape (see "Attendees" page below for details). Please add your name to the "Attendees" page if you are thinking about attending. While you can "walk-in" at LGM, we'll have to provide a list of who is attending the Boston Hackfest to our hosts before the hackfest starts. Even if you can't attend, you can still propose topics for discussion/work on the "Topics" page. And you can contribute financial support at: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfests/ Here's a list of relevant web pages: Boston Hackfest: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018 http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Topics Seville Hackfest: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Attendees http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Topics Hoping to see you at one of the Hackfests, Tav

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Mar 2nd, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings (Note that a Release Team meeting will follow immediately after. The Vectors Team will be meeting the next day.) Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) [doctormo] + Merchandise sales [crogers] + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + LGM 2018 [Tav] + GSoC [ScislaC] + Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on Budget 2018 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Make a list of projects for cleaning up our code base [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Send invites to old Inkscapers to attend hackfest [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Collect CMYK ideas into Color_management wiki page [alface] ♢ ACTION: Analyze how we could improve internal handling of Illustrator and Corel file import [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Follow up with MPLA to clarify on funded development and general sponsorship options [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Start reaching out to people (including previous contributors) to attend the hackfest. [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Arrange votes for any special case travelers for hackfest. [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Try one more time to access spreadshirt password, then email bryce for help [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Collab on markdown formatting for the board docs [bryce,tedg] ♢ ACTION: Get the word out about LGM / Inkscape and invite more attendees [Tavmjong] ♢ ACTION: Evaluate use of discorse (https://discuss.pixls.us/ ?) for support/mailing list/forum type stuff [Vector Team] Bryce

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Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas
by Peter Hutterer 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Benjamin Tissoires and I have been working on a project called Tuhi that communicates with the wacom smartpad devices and pulls the data off them. https://github.com/tuhiproject/tuhi/ Devices working so far are the Bamboo Spark, Slate and the Intuos Pro Paper. Smartpad devices aren't traditional graphics tablets [1] but instead have a paper notepad on top of a sensor with a special pen. You draw on the paper, the sensor registers the drawings and stores it in a custom vector-based format in the device. Later, you connect the device over bluetooth to the host and fetch the drawings from the firmware. This is the bit that tuhi does, and it exposes the drawings as a simple json-based vector format overa session DBus API. To interact, you basically connect to the dbus daemon, tell it to listen to the device and then get notified about new drawings. Then you can fetch the drawings one-by-one as needed. Tuhi only has a commandline client for debugging and we don't intend to ship that client, it's for debugging only. Eventually, we may have a standalone application similar to Wacom's Inkspace (yeah, confusing, isn't it?). This app would be a gallery-style application that displays the drawings and exports them to the desired formats. That's a fairly straightforward process. But right now what we're interested in is whether inkscape has interest in a plugin-style implementation that talks to the tuhi daemon. Or whether there are use-cases where the standalone application is insufficient and some tighter integration is needed. Or other use-case you can think of that we haven't yet. Any comments appreciated! Cheers, Peter [1] the intuos pro paper is when you plug it in, let's ignore that for now

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List issues
by Maren Hachmann 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Does anyone know why some list emails arrive so late lately? Within the last week, I think at least 10 emails arrived after > 4 days only (I can exclude a mail server issue on my side, as I get the same emails at the same times on my web-based email account). Has there been a major sourceforge outage? What's the status of the mailing list move to our own server? Maren

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Fw: Visitor analytics
by brynn 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Resending this. Apparently I used the wrong email address to send this from, so it didn't go to the list. -----Original Message----- From: brynn Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 12:25 PM To: Martin Owens ; Ryan Gorley ; inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Visitor analytics What I like the best about it (Piwik/Matomo) is that it seems to only report on what I refer to as human visitors. Personally I find that much more useful. (Although I could imagine that some sites (or webmasters, owners) might be more interested in aalllll the traffic.) So that's the sandcats.io script that I see in Firefox's No Script? So already, visitors haven't been notified about the site using this tracking? So the login via github has to do with sandstorm, from what I can tell? Because I just log in on the page where I installed it, on my site. brynn -----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 2:12 AM To: brynn ; Ryan Gorley ; inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Visitor analytics On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 01:24 -0700, brynn wrote: > Whatever a Piwik "sandcat sandstorm grain" is, it's probably very > different from > what I'm using on my site. That's just the way it's deployed. It's easier to do that then to set it up raw although it comes with it's own oddness hence the login restrictions. The graphs even now are interesting. Martin,

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Boston hackfest stickers
by C R 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

I've heard three mentions in support of Boston Tea Party ships. I'll do a variation with that and then we can maybe take a vote on which version works better. I'm not married to either idea. Just want folks to be happy with the results. :) More soon. -C On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@...43...> wrote: > > On 02/20/2018 10:48 AM, Martin Owens wrote: >> >> Although I fear we're putting too much pressure on you, your design was >> really nice tbh. It doesn't have to scream boston if it doesn't want >> to. > > Totally, sorry, didn't mean to exert pressure at all. Just that the building > is in a bit odd of a place so you know the lay of the land. Honestly design > looks good enough that it doesn't really matter I think if ppl recognize it > or not. > > ~m

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Visitor analytics
by Mihaela 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

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Daily Inkscape Builds?
by Miguel Lopez 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Hi Inkscape developers, users, and supporters, There's a open-source software named Krita which offers daily-builds from trunk, and I was wondering if this sort of thing was possible for Inkscape. Thank you for reading.

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no access to Inkscape code repository on Gitlab
by alvinpenner 24 Feb '18

24 Feb '18

Hi, Is it just me, or have the permissions changed for browsing the Inkscape code on Gitlab? I have a shortcut for accessing Inkscape: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape I use this regularly just for curiosity. This link no longer works, unless I am signed in to Gitlab, which I typically am not. Even worse, if I use this link, and then go to the link that says: Explore projects on GitLab.com (no login needed) I find that the Inkscape project no longer exists. That is to say, many Inkscape-related projects are found, but Inkscape itself does not exist or cannot be found. just checking, Alvin -- Sent from: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Inkscape-Dev-f2781808.html

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MacOS build on Github to consider
by Jared Meidal 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

About four years ago some discussion occurred around rejuvenating a build system for MacOS. I have since noticed a individual in that discussion has code and build instructions open on Github, and has continued to develop here: https://github.com/valerioa/Inkscape-MacOS-Curated-Build After trying out the build, I like the ability to work without X11 in a native app appearance. I'm not an app developer, but would like to raise attention to this as a project which has gone a long way to benefit Mac users. --Jared

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape liveAnimate idea
by openInvent 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Hey all someone told me a way to view same document at different zoom levels using the window duplicate function. I was able to use it somewhat but in ubuntu the window doesnt stay on top some times or it isnt dockable. Also I used the tutorial files from help and I was trying to LIVE ANIMATE that file using vokoscreen that comes with ubuntu studio... And It was very laggy on my slow pc running off 2GB RAM and a Live DVD. I really think with a RAID 0 of 10k Hard Drives it would be fine. Anyways I am kinda suggesting that I be able to dock or split a window. I was liking the horizontal spilt I could move animated objects on lower screen and they would move above in the larger screen without the cursor showing. I wish I could disable the UI or the cursor with a hotkey and set other hotkeys to affect scale or rotation or like switch layers like press space to swap group file or unhide a top layer etc. Any suggestions? I know Inkscape isnt a animation suite but its simple for little things like a Puppeteer App especially if you can do post production and use a chromakey background. Example like handwriting Words onto a music video etc. It seems that my emails get "lost" you can snail mail me at the address below and I will reply with sticker gifts.(tiny.cc/oisticker) Ember AR Leona 250 S. Lyon Ave Ste E 108 Hemet, CA 92543 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. -------- Original Message -------- On February 22, 2018 1:25 AM, Maren Hachmann <maren@...3165...> wrote: >Am 18.01.2018 um 21:30 schrieb Bryce Harrington: >>Do we have a wiki page setup for discussing/brainstorming bug tracker >> ideas? Maybe that'd be a good starting point? >> > > Now we have: > >http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Bug_Reporting_Workflow > > Maren > > >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hackfest location confirmed?
by Máirín Duffy 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

If you need any help w Red Hat brand elements let me know! Cheers,~m Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> Date: 1/20/18 8:42 AM (GMT-05:00) To: C R <cajhne@...400...>, inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hackfest location confirmed? On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 12:57 +0000, C R wrote: > Hey everyone. Working on the sticker for the Boston hackfest. > Did we ever get confirmation on the location? The page still says, > RedHat Boston Office, but did we ever confirm? I'd like to include > the > location on the swag stickers. It is confirmed! Martin, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Boston hackfest stickers
by C R 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

These are modeled after the Paris engraved ones I did last year. This time however, I thought the venue was a better thing to put on the sticker rather than a local tourist attraction, which in this case, no one might actually see. So here it is, the Boston Hackfest sticker sample: https://www.dropbox.com/s/trkgrniaf4g33iz/inkscape_foil_sticker_boston_hack… Any thoughts? Wish it were a famous landmark instead? Lemme know. -C

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Some guests for Boston Hackfest
by Máirín Duffy 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hi, I spoke to Matthias Clasen from the upstream GTK+ project and he has kindly offered to attend the hackfest for a day or two. If there are specific days you think his input would be most valuable, I can pass that on to him. Bill Sanford from our Desktop QA team is, among many other things, responsible for testing Inkscape for our desktop product. He is also interested in attending, and if you have specific questions or things you'd like to hear from him, please let me know. Cheers, ~m

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inkscape sticker graphics
by C R 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

Someone asked for the original files to print a set of their own. I've included the sample mockup, flattened vector print layer, 40mm dieline, and some (c) and font information on different layers in the svg. It's here in case someone would like to add it to the inkscape archives, or use it to print their own stickers: https://inkscape.org/en/~C.Rogers/%E2%98%85inkscape-silver-foil-sticker-40mm -C

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Twitter...
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Who's got access to the Twitter account? If you have access can you announce both Inkscape's GSoC participation and the upcoming Boston hackfest? I've taken care of our G+ account. Thanks, Tav

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Google Summer of Code - 2018
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hi all, Inkscape has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's Google Summer of Code. Students, time to develop your proposals. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5174841905250304/ Tav

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Variables in Inkscape
by Robert Van Den Bergh 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hey, Is it possible to create variables in Inkscape that link to a database? Kind regards, Rob

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new moderation procedure?
by brynn 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hi Friends, This is something which has never been discussed. But recently we've had some images being reported by a regular member, which moderators have approved, and they remain in the gallery. In one case they reported a member. Should we contact a member who reports an image, thank them for helping, and explain our decision, why we decided not to delete the image? In this particular case, I'm thinking we may need to contact him or her, just to try and prevent more unnecessary reports. But in general, I wonder if we should take the time to explain our motivation, since the member is taking the time to help us. (Hah, for these recent reports, maybe I should try to recruit him or her as a moderator....?) Thanks for any comments :-) brynn

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Update on Inkscape hosting
by Bryce Harrington 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

As many of you already know, we've been looking for sponsors for providing hosting for some of our ancillary services (mailing lists, wiki, forums, et al). I put out a CFP to hosting providers a few months back, and with ample help from Ryan we've received a couple good offers. I'm currently in discussion with the Software Freedom Conservancy to get the legal/administrative bits sorted out, so not everything is 100% nailed down just yet. However that's proceeded to a point that I'm starting to turn attention to the more technical end of things. To refresh your memory, here's the background statement from the CFP: """ We currently have various services hosted at a number of different locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We would like to centralize the administration of these services, such as consolidating them onto one platform. We also want room and flexibility to easily install additional services as we grow. Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also be worth consolidating at some point in the future. """ Mailing list migration will be the first focus, possibly also with some DNS services. This would finally get us off SourceForge, allowing us to close that down. After that, I'm pretty open to what comes next; we can play it by ear depending on opportunities and manpower availability. If you have something you wish to put time into setting up and/or administrating, contact me to sort out details. While in the CFP I had preferred physical hosting, the virtual hosting provided by the cloud service providers offering sponsorship to us does have some advantage in terms of flexibility - being able to spin up VMs on a per-service basis, or temporary ones for development and testing. One common industry best practice I'd like us to adopt is to switch to use of automated scripts for setting up the systems and services. I.e., using cloud-config to bootstrap the raw VMs, and then something like Ansible or Puppet to do automatic configuration management. We can then consolidate the service setup scripts in a git repository. More on this later. I've added a new "Inkscape Infrastructure" subgroup for holding this configuration management repository. This will be a sysadmin-oriented repository - i.e. more focused on the setup/administrative end, not so much on the data or code. I'll work up some policy/procedure for membership management of this group, for now I'll handle it manually. I'm also going to move our 'credentials' repository into this Inkscape Infrastructure subgroup. Last board meeting we discussed migrating the credentials git repo, so that it's not hosted as a branch of the inkscape codebase (which causes it to take a long time to checkout). So this will implement that change. Bryce

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