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by Nathan Hurst 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

I've been working my way through sodipodi making everything work with g++. At this point I have done: libnr/* libnrtype/* inkscape.c Not complete, but partly working: helpers widgets to test, just change the CC=gcc line in the makefile and make clean && make the aim is to have inkscape compile both in gcc and g++. biggest problem is _(). most effort has been fixing variables named 'new' and 'class' and sorting out the various string types. I also found a bug thanks to the type system (two params swapped) :). njh

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Planned tasks for milestone 0
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

Given that we really just started this yesterday, it's impressive how far we've got so suddenly. The remaining tasks for this milestone are quite modest, and I think we could quite easily get them finished up today and have our first milestone behind us. :-) Bryce === Milestone 0 === Inkscape Production: * (DONE) Post hydra-october patchset to Sodipodi mailing list [bryce] * (DONE) Import sodipodi into inkscape CVS as module 'inkscape' from hydra-october [mental] * (DONE) Unsodipodify the tree, replacing instances of 'Sodipodi' with 'Inkscape' where appropriate (we will be keeping the sodipodi XML namespace for compatibility) [mental] * (DONE) Install inkscape 0.00 for personal use [bryce] * (DONE) Install inkscape 0.00 for personal use [mental] * Install inkscape 0.00 for personal use [ted] * Install inkscape 0.00 for personal use [njh] * Decide what release number N to use (0.00? 0.33? 1.00?) [mental] Inkscape Experimental * (DONE) Decide name for Mental's sketch 'inkscape-experimental'? 'experimental'? 'inkscape-next-gen'? -- It shall be called 'experimental' [mental] * Import code into CVS [mental] Inkscape Website * (DONE) Set up a Wiki [bryce] * (DONE) Post sketchy website with homepage, contact info, news, and pointer to wiki [bryce] * (DONE) Set up website to auto-rebuild every few minutes [bryce]

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CVS commit diff
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

I expect most people already know this but in case not here's a trick to get cvs commit to display a diff of what you're checking in: Create a file called ~/bin/cvsdiffedit: ---------------------------------- #!/bin/bash echo Building diff... cvs diff -u 2>/dev/null | perl -ne 'print "CVS: $_" unless /^\?/' >> $1 exec emacs $1 ---------------------------------- (Change 'emacs' to your favorite editor) Then put this in your .cshrc: ---------------------------------- ... if (-e $HOME/bin/cvsdiffedit) then setenv CVSEDITOR "$HOME/bin/cvsdiffedit" endif ... ---------------------------------- Or if you use BASH or similar: ---------------------------------- ... export CVSEDITOR=~/bin/cvsdiffedit ... ---------------------------------- Bryce

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Website auto-rebuild
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

The website is set to auto-update every couple minutes. To modify the website, check out inkscape_web, cd into src/, add or edit files and directories as desired, and do cvs commit. Docs on the EtText format are available from ettext.taint.org. Bryce

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New mailing lists
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

I've added two "auto-notify" mailing lists. inkscape-tracker@...6... is configured to get CC'd for all Bug, Patch, or Feature Request submissions sent by users. Useful for keeping in touch with what users are wanting. inkscape-cvs@...6... gets sent every CVS commit message. Useful for tracking what developers are doing. Enjoy, Bryce

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Install inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

Now that Mental has imported inkscape into CVS, I recommend that each of us make an effort to download, compile, and install it within the next few days, and to force ourselves to start using it instead of sodipodi for all of our own personal vector drawing needs. I've created tasks for each of us to do this, on the plan. Please mark them (DONE) when you've finished installing it on your system. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DevelopmentRoadmap Bryce

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Skeleton website
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

I blatantly stole the web structure, etc. from OSDL for us. http://www.inkscape.org/ I expect we'll chuck the color and look & feel stuff, but this gives us the basic structure, navigational elements, etc. This is checked into cvs as inkscape_web. This doesn't use php, so our URL's are going to be like normal URLs instead of hanging everything off of an index.php?foo=bar type thing. Since it uses TT2 we can still do a lot of the same scripting type stuff that can be done in PHP, only without any processing overhead. Bryce

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Copyright assignment policy
by Bryce Harrington 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

It is a common misconception that one should list as copyright holder for docs, sourcecode, etc. the name of the project, unless it is an actual legal entity. Obviously, 99% of open source projects aren't legal entities. Likewise, Inkscape isn't and probably won't be a legal entity, so can't hold copyright. Assigning copyright of something to a non-legal entity invalidates it. If there would ever happen to be any question of copyright, this would make it difficult to chase down who really holds the copyright. So ironically by trying to do something nice for the project it could cause more problems than it solves. Thank god that this is almost never ever an issue since open source projects rarely get into legal troubles. Instead, list yourself as the author and copyright holder for things you make, and make sure to declare it GPL'd. (If you wish, you can dual license with yourself and Inkscape if for some reason you're optimistic that one day someone will bother to file the papers to make it a legal entity.) Also take care to provide good contact info so folks can track you down 10 years from now if, for instance, they needed to assign you a bunch of stock options or something. ;-) Bryce

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hydra is in CVS
by MenTaLguY 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

Just a quick note to let you guys know I've imported Hydra into CVS as module 'inkscape'. -mental

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DNS and other things
by MenTaLguY 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

I've finished twiddling DNS for inkscape.org to point at our SF webspace, I think, though it'll take a while for things to settle down and propagate. I've also added email aliases @inkscape.org for each of the currently added developers (y'all let me know if you object). Also, I'd like to congratulate bryce on his perennial state of being-on-the-ball with this mailing list thing and getting more folks added, so I didn't have to. ^_^ Next up is probably getting the goodies in CVS. I'm strongly in favor of labeling the Sodipodi fork "hydra", but I'm not sure what to call the piece of code I'm working on. I'd originally been thinking "hercules", but maybe just "inkscape" is fine? Also, is anyone any good with Doxygen? I'd like to start looking into that for both codebases... -mental

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