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Sourceforge confirmation email
by Maren Hachmann 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

Hi everyone, please actively look for an email from sourceforge that asks you to confirm your sourceforge mailing list membership(s). They have changed their mailing list policies to make indicating the country of residence of a subscriber mandatory. More info can be found at: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-project-e-mail-policy-update/ (@doctormo: if you want to extract the things mentioned at https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-project-e-mail-policy-update/ , do it before June 29th - old, inactive mailing lists will be deleted, for example.) Kind Regards, Maren

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GitLab Merge Requests
by Felipe Sanches 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

i'm used to the "pull request" workflow on github. It seems to me that the analogous workflow on GitLab would be the "Merge Requests". I forked the Inkscape git repo into my personal GitLab account here: https://gitlab.com/fsanches/inkscape Then I created a feature branch challed *variable_fonts* where I'll be working on the OpenType Variable Fonts feature. But I also created a feature branch specifically for a single-commit merge request. The code itself is very very simple. The idea here is just to exercise the workflow. The branch is called *disable_libnrtype_debugging_code* and you can see it here: https://gitlab.com/fsanches/inkscape/commits/disable_libnrtype_debugging_co… Then I opened a "merge request", but it failed to give me any success screen. Once I tried doing it for the second time it gave me an error as can be seen on the attached screenshot. It says: The form contains the following error: - Validate branches Cannot Create: This merge request already exists: ["Disable debugging code on libnrtype Layout-TNG-Compute at compile-time."] But when I look at Inkscape's GitLab repo dashboard, I cannot see any mention on open merge requests. I'm a bit puzzled about it. Did anyone receive an email notification about it ? Happy Hacking, Felipe "Juca" Sanches

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requesting wiki access
by Robert Sterbal 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Please give access to the Inkscape wiki to: rsterbal robert@...3541... Automatic account creation has been disabled due to high levels of spam. To request an account please email the developer list Thanks, Robert Sterbal robert@...3541... 412-977-3526 call/text

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[Gitlab Migration] Branches migrated
by Ted Gould 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Hello folks, All of the branches have no migrated to Git. I'll be running the script to normalize the e-mail addresses in the commit logs and then start pushing up to Gitlab. I expect that to take a couple hours each. Sorry about the delays. Ted

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[UX] Import image hard DPI change undertanding
by Jabier Arraiza 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Hi all, I get some feedback from some users that have problems to undertand de DPI radio buttons on image import. Maybe is better switch to: * Use same image size * Scale to fit DPI Cheers, Jabier.

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[Gitlab Migration] Still exporting branches
by Ted Gould 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Well, still running and finding more branches. I wish I would have written down exactly how many there were last run, but we're at 120 right now and I thought it was in the low 100's before... but it seems unlikely I'll get it pushed up to Gitlab tonight. I'll continue to update as I know more. Sorry for the incorrect estimates. Ted

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UX help for inkscape - project ideas?
by Máirín Duffy 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Hi everyone, I've recently become involved in an opportunity to work with a graduate level college class on a semester-long project potentially on a regular basis starting this fall. The class is on information science and the students have skills in UX as well as info processing such as machine learning. The projects have a scope of 15 weeks, and involve 2-3 grad students working roughly 9 hours/week and presenting them at the end of the class I am putting together a list of potential project abstracts for the professor running the class and thought it might be neat to include an Inkscape potential project idea. I was wondering if there are any specific projects within Inkscape that might be good for this kind of project? I would be willing to serve as the mentor / liaision for the students. One idea that came to mind was perhaps the students could look into the new alternative glyphs work Tav did (as he mentioned, "The GUI leaves a bit to be desired"), come up with some UI mockups / proposals, maybe do some usability testing on prototypes, and present their recommendations to you guys at the end? What do you think? Cheers, ~m

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Marketing Inkscape - Survey Preview
by Ryan Gorley 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Hello all, I have been in communication with Martin and Maren about assisting with some marketing on the project. I am a designer and marketer by profession. You can read the conversation <http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=497.0> that got this all started if you're interested, but in short, I feel passionately about helping Inkscape succeed. I am emailing to get your feedback on a survey I would like to begin collecting responses for. As I see it, growing users and growing contributors are two sides of the same coin for any successful FOSS project. This particular survey is focusing on the user side of that coin. My intent is to help develop criteria for, and consensus around, who our primary markets for Inkscape should be. A free and open application is of course for anyone to use for any reason. However, because our resources in marketing this application are finite, we really need to clarify and prioritize to have any hope for success. So here is the survey: https://goo.gl/forms/ReZkSjOMokkaoSln2 *Don't spend your time responding (yet)*. I would like to make sure I'm covering the right user segments here, so do email me with your thoughts. I'm glad to meet you all and thanks for the help! Ryan Gorley @ Dijt <https://dijt.co/>

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[Gitlab Migration] Computers doing computer things
by Ted Gould 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Hey folks, Things are going well, they just take a while. Got about 20 out of 100 branches converted over. I'm a little worried that it might take beyond I'm willing to stay up tomorrow evening as the last test import took about 18 hours (then run the address sanitizer and upload). I'll continue to give progress tomorrow, but I wanted to give folks a heads up in case it takes a bit longer than originally expected. Cheers, Ted

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[Gitlab Migration] Branches Frozen
by Ted Gould 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

Hello, Bazaar branches are frozen. Migration to Git has been started. It'll take a while :-) Ted

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