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Setting extension parameter defaults from svg objects
by Trever L. Adams 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

I am working with an already existing extension. One of my frustrations is that it remembers the last use. The extension sets values on the svg path directly. Is there a way that the params defined in the .inx file can be loaded from those same values? Thank you. Trever

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Downloads Downtime
by Martin Owens 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Dear Developers, Last night at 3:22am GMT the newly fixed web server ran it's cron jobs that had not run since November. It ran the automatic updater script, which pulled in new additions to the website without migrating the database. The database table for resources was then lacking a new "owner" string field and requests to downloads failed with an Error 500. The issue was corrected with a complete database migration at 7:42am EST and the website is working within it's known parameters. Between the issue starting and the fix, there were 241 error emails sent from the web server for 44,183 actual 500 errors. (Emails are paced). Blocking 13,228 attempts to download inkscape for windows file, 6,295 attempts at an msi file and 15,937 attempts at the portable inkscape download. >From users themselves, there were 42 emails to the website administrator. 38 in English, 2 in French, 1 in Portuguese, 1 in Indonesian and 1 from Donald Duck. 40 apologetic emails were sent back to real addresses, and two emails not sent to fake reply addresses. Best regards, Martin Owens

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Trunk build broken (test case involving document-rotation)
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

[==========] Running 4 tests from 1 test case. [----------] Global test environment set-up. [----------] 4 tests from AttributesTest [ RUN ] AttributesTest.SupportedKnown [ OK ] AttributesTest.SupportedKnown (2 ms) [ RUN ] AttributesTest.NameRoundTrip [ OK ] AttributesTest.NameRoundTrip (1 ms) [ RUN ] AttributesTest.ValuesAreKnown /<<BUILDDIR>>/inkscape-trunk-0.92.0+devel+15444+85~ubuntu16.10.1/testfiles/src/attributes-test.cpp:613: Failure Value of: ids[i] > 0 Actual: false Expected: true Attribute string with enum 59 {inkscape:document-rotation} not handled [ FAILED ] AttributesTest.ValuesAreKnown (4 ms) [ RUN ] AttributesTest.ValuesUnique [ OK ] AttributesTest.ValuesUnique (2 ms) [----------] 4 tests from AttributesTest (9 ms total) [----------] Global test environment tear-down [==========] 4 tests from 1 test case ran. (9 ms total) [ PASSED ] 3 tests. [ FAILED ] 1 test, listed below: [ FAILED ] AttributesTest.ValuesAreKnown 1 FAILED TEST 3/5 Test #2: color-profile-test ............... Passed 5.74 sec 4/5 Test #3: dir-util-test .................... Passed 5.73 sec Start 5: object-set-test 5/5 Test #5: object-set-test .................. Passed 0.31 sec 80% tests passed, 1 tests failed out of 5 Total Test time (real) = 6.06 sec The following tests FAILED: 1 - attributes-test (Failed) Errors while running CTest Makefile:130: recipe for target 'test' failed ----- Forwarded message from Launchpad Buildd System <noreply@...1881...> ----- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:27:43 -0000 From: Launchpad Buildd System <noreply@...1881...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> Subject: [Build #11913969] amd64 build of inkscape-trunk 1:0.92.0+devel+15444+85~ubuntu16.10.1 in ubuntu yakkety RELEASE [~inkscape.dev/ubuntu/trunk] Reply-To: Launchpad Buildd System <noreply@...1881...> * Source Package: inkscape-trunk * Version: 1:0.92.0+devel+15444+85~ubuntu16.10.1 * Architecture: amd64 * Archive: ~inkscape.dev/ubuntu/trunk * Component: main * State: Failed to build * Duration: 45 minutes * Build Log: https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/trunk/+build/11913969/+… * Builder: https://launchpad.net/builders/lgw01-42 * Source: not available If you want further information about this situation, feel free to contact a member of the Launchpad Buildd Administrators team. -- amd64 build of inkscape-trunk 1:0.92.0+devel+15444+85~ubuntu16.10.1 in ubuntu yakkety RELEASE https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/trunk/+build/11913969 You are receiving this email because your team Inkscape Developers is the owner of this archive. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Media Caching on Inkscape.org
by Martin Owens 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hi inkscapers, The inkscape website has been under stress recently. Higher load after the release mostly. But also a broken cron, failing logrotate, low disk space (in that order of knock on effect). I've fixed the cron, which fixes the logrotate and I've got a ticket out for increasing the disk space next Monday. The web server will be down for 30 minutes while I go through the process with OSUOSL. The load issue though was troubling me. Lots of media requests. I opened a ticket with Fastly, the very kind CDN service we use. They had a look at our logs and noticed that Fastly was asking if files had changed every 3 minutes. Which is a bit often. So I've set the expires to 30 days. This shouldn't effect any of the actual pages since it's just about the media / downloads. This is also one reason why uploads never use the same filename, appending -1 and etc to make them unique. So we shouldn't have an issue. But let me know if you spot anything odd or interesting. I'll keep monitoring. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code 2017 - Mentors?
by Krzysztof Kosiński 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

I can mentor too. On Jan 24, 2017 12:05, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> wrote: On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 10:35 -0800, Josh Andler wrote: > Hey All, > > The Org application period is currently open. We've had a couple > potential students already reach out. Given those two things, who is > willing and able to Mentor for our organization this year? > > I'm willing to Admin as usual, hence my bringing this up. I'm ready to do a spot of mentoring also. Thanks Josh! 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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Google Summer of Code 2017 - Mentors?
by Josh Andler 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Hey All, The Org application period is currently open. We've had a couple potential students already reach out. Given those two things, who is willing and able to Mentor for our organization this year? I'm willing to Admin as usual, hence my bringing this up. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] User Involvement Was: Post-Mortum: Line heightbug
by C R 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Sounds great to me! I'll read over what we have as well again this weekend and put some thought into the content and graphics, taking into account all suggestions made here. I think a bit of humour would be great to convey a friendly and fun atmosphere to welcome contributors while not being too cheesy. :) -C On 24 Jan 2017 6:03 a.m., "brynn" <brynn@...3133...> wrote: I think that's a brilliant idea. You're right that we have written bits > along these lines in the past, which could be extracted, dusted off, and polished to be more digestible to a more modern audience. You're right that there's probably a few different "types" of people so maybe a few different pages to message in different ways would make sense. I.e. one that talks to people who could get into coding work might focus on explaining branches and patch contributions, whereas another page might come from the angle of someone who isn't AT ALL interested in coding and instead just address good non-coding ways to contribute. Another one geared for translators, another maybe for evangelists, yet another specifically focused on usability testing. Or something like that. Would you like to take a shot at extracting the existing text and roughing it into a more useful shape? I think I could contribute verbage to the pages, or link in someone to help. Bryce __________________________________________________ Yeah sure, as long as we're waiting for OSUOSL, I have time to spare. I'll have to look in the FAQ to see what's left still there. Because now that I think of it, a lot of it has been brought to the Contribute page already, and some on the Promote page. https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/ https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/promote/ Should we split those sections up, and add more to them? I think what might be missing, to address this concern, is language that perhaps is more inviting (and maybe more warm and fuzzy?) as opposed to strictly informational. I know we had a report recently, where someone thought the info about helping with the website should be on the Contribute page, rather than Promote. I originally put it on Promote, because I was thinking that's what the website does, is promote Inkscape. Plus, it made a way to break into 2 pages evenly, while all on the same page, it's too long. Anyway, maybe there's a better way to organize all that? Ok, the only thing left in the FAQ is this: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#how-communicate-effective ly-throughout-inkscape-community-and-avoid-causing-flamewar which I deliberately left there, thinking it should probably be deleted, but not wanting to make that decision alone. I think we can definitely use that first paragraph. And maybe some other parts too? Since we have the CoC, we can probably lose the flamewar part. Hhmm....I'm thinking of an introduction to the Contribute page, which contains most of that info. Section title "So, You Want to Contribute to Inkscape? Here's how to get started" More warm and fuzzy, but maybe too corny? C R, jump in with comments too :-) All best, brynn PS - another thought - Maybe the CoC could have some language for bringing new people in without saying "patches welcome"? -----Original Message----- From: Bryce Harrington Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 7:51 PM To: brynn Cc: C R ; inkscape-devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] User Involvement Was: Post-Mortum: Line heightbug On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 08:50:49AM -0700, brynn wrote: > >"Patches welcome" has become a flippant and dismissive way to say, > >"well, fix it yourself". > > Most of my experience helping Inkscape users is in forums (approx 8 > years), as opposed to the mailing list (approx 2 or 3 years). I've > never seen this suggested in a flippant or dismissive way. > > I could see a webpage....or a section of a webpage, which has kind > of a pitch or invitation. Without looking, I don't remember > specifics, but I think parts of the faq (user faq on the website) > already do this. So it could be made into a page or section of a > page. Since people have all different kind of issues, we couldn't > provide the support info. But it could include generalized support > info, along with everything else I mentioned above. And then when > we find ourselves thinking "patches welcome", we could link to it, > rather than type it all out, every time. > > Or would that be too impersonal? If the Inkscape project is known > for being a friendly community (as someone said earlier) it could be > written in sort of a warm, fuzzy way.....if that would help? Just a > thought :-) > I think that's a brilliant idea. You're right that we have written bits along these lines in the past, which could be extracted, dusted off, and polished to be more digestible to a more modern audience. You're right that there's probably a few different "types" of people so maybe a few different pages to message in different ways would make sense. I.e. one that talks to people who could get into coding work might focus on explaining branches and patch contributions, whereas another page might come from the angle of someone who isn't AT ALL interested in coding and instead just address good non-coding ways to contribute. Another one geared for translators, another maybe for evangelists, yet another specifically focused on usability testing. Or something like that. Would you like to take a shot at extracting the existing text and roughing it into a more useful shape? I think I could contribute verbage to the pages, or link in someone to help. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92 Portable version ?
by Gord Caswell 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

On 18 January 2017 at 16:47, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > > Between this, and Eduard's request for help, I'm building it right now. > > Great, thanks for tending to it. > We've built & digitally signed the portable package, ready for upload: http://download2.portableapps.com/portableapps/inkscapeportable/InkscapePor… SHA1: 9f949bf3b77f4d529673ff43d597e7827b3b327b Gord PortableApps.com

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Move Wiki to Git*b
by Martin Owens 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Dear developers and wiki enthusiasts, Our current wiki hosted on wiki.inkscape.org is doing ok, but is running on an old machine that the hosting provider OSUOSL would like to retire if at all possible. Since we are moving to Git*b, this is an opportunity to also move the wiki to that service. This decreases our system-admin burden and the resources we ask from osuosl. It would also say that our wiki is more of a developer/contributor focused effort, leaving user content to the website. I expect things like hackfest planning and other plumbing to continue to use a wiki system. The process of moving it would entail waiting until our code is on git*b and then convert each of the existing pages from MediaWiki syntax to Markdown syntax. A script such as this https://bitbucket.org/wikier/mw2md could be used, but testing would be needed to see what kind of output we got. For all people involved in using and editing the wiki, I'd like your thoughts on how we should manage our wiki service going forwards. Thank you all. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator Hat

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Mesh Gradients Polyfill
by Jayesh Salvi 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hello, I've implemented Javascript polyfill for SVG files that have mesh gradients in them, so that they can be rendered in browsers successfully. I ported the mesh gradient rendering code from Cairo to javascript in order to do so. The code and instructions on how to use it are available at https://github.com/zectorio/mesh-gradient-js This code could be run on SVG files created in inkscape and make them renderable in browser. Please take a look. I'm looking forward to your feedback. (There are still some rough edges, as this is still a proof-of-concept thing. But the code works for examples in samples directory) Thanks, -- Jayesh

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