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Please register for attending LGM
by Maren Hachmann 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi all, I just got another message from Aude (who coordinates LGM and provides the space for the Saarbrücken hackfest). She is asking us to register for participation at LGM, so they can more easily plan for the resources they will need (e.g. ordering vegetarian lunch, ordering T-shirts, special needs, ...). Thanks everyone, Maren

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GSoC candidate
by Alaa Nousir 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to introduce myself and interact with the community here and hopefully be a lively contributor to inkscape! First things first, *who am I and why do I want to apply?* I'm a communication and information engineering undergraduate student in Zewail City, Egypt. I also happen to be a freelance artist who likes to explore new art programs along the way. I'm in my 3rd year in engineering, and I have taken a strong Object-Oriented programming course in C++ last year and data structures and algorithms course this year. The final project for the C++ course was to add features to a paint program! It was an incredibly beneficial and fun experience. Some of the features were resizing, creating new shapes, redoing, undoing, and other similar tasks. Whenever I'm not learning anything new (through online courses or university courses), I invest time to enhance my artistic skills. I was skimming through the projects available to apply for in GSoC and I found inkscape. I was immediately hooked. It's perfect in every possible way! I'm already familiar with manipulating objects in GUIs, I have a strong passion for art, I'm experienced enough to know what the user would want to see available while drawing and I'm skilled in coding! *What have I accomplished so far from the tasks listed in the GSoC website?*I have already built and run the project, and I have chosen to work on P3. slice Items. I believe I have what it takes to contribute. I'm currently creating some artworks to upload on the website and formulating a rigid timeline to follow for the project I chose. *Inquiries: Regarding the submission of a drawing I have made task, I was wondering where exactly should I submit it. Would it be enough to just upload it on my inkscape profile and attach the link to my application? * *Also, where should I submit my inkscape application exactly?* Thank you for your time.

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LGM/Saarbrücken Hackfest
by Maren Hachmann 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi Inkscapers, today, I phoned Aude Poilroux, project manager working at k8, who had offered to help us with getting a space for the planned Hackfest before LGM. k8.design (Institut für strategische Ästhetik) ---------------------------------------------- A non-profit company (gGmbH) owned by the Saarbrücken arts university. They do work on organizing events, art cooperations, digital transformation, supporting and executing projects that originated in the university, and many other things that the university itself isn't allowed to do, because it's an educational institution, and not a business. Their offices are at Keplerstr. 3-5 in Saarbrücken. Meeting space ------------- Aude is offering us a part of k8's open-plan office for May 27th, 28th and 29th. The part is usually used as sitting area, but they want to put some additional chairs and tables in. She says the place can hold up to 20 persons (but then it will be a bit cramped). There is another adjacent office, that can hold about 10 persons, but it may not be available all the time. We could use it for discussing stuff, while working can be done in the larger room. I forgot to ask about whiteboard/blackboard/projector/flip chart or similar. There are lots of electricity outlets, but we might need to bring some German multiple socket outlets. They have WiFi. I'm not sure about wired LAN, but she says the internet connection is broad band and very fast. We could use the space from ~ 9:00 in the morning, and if we can name one responsible person, she is considering to give us a key, so we can stay as long as we need. There is no canteen, and no organized meals. However, the venue is located in a pedestrian zone with multiple places where one can buy food close by. One of them is a wholefood shop, which offers meals at reasonable prices. There are also a couple of bakeries, and then there's a microwave in the office. She is asking us to let her know the rough number of attendees by mid May. We would then also need to name a responsible person, who would need to sign for the group, and would guarantee for us not wreaking havoc in their offices. On the 29th, there will be an additional event called "From Code to Community", starting around midday, where local (as in ~ 100km radius) businesses and open source projects are meant to meet. The program isn't ready to be published yet, but it is planned that there will be keynotes by politicians and people from FSFE, talks about open source business applications, talks about open culture, a workshop on collaboration culture, booths from various open source projects (educational, LUGs, mapping, MSF, framasoft). The event is meant to attract students and businesses. It's going to take place in the same building where, at 18:00, the opening of LGM will take place. Aude is asking us if we would be able to staff a booth there, to present Inkscape to students and small businesses. The event is mostly in German, but people from Luxembourg and France are invited to attend too, so it might be useful to also have one of our French-speaking community members there. During LGM, they seem to have more rooms available than there will be conference tracks, so she says it should be possible to have a collaboration space for Inkscape. However, we probably won't be able to have the same place continuously, and we would have to ask when we need it. There is also plenty of sitting space available on the venue that is not in a separate room. So Q1: Shall I confirm the dates as written above? Q2: Would someone be interested in presenting Inkscape to local people before LGM on Wednesday? (I would be) And Q3: Is there anyone volunteering to be the one who holds the key (if we get one) and to sign the agreement? I will probably not stay late, so I'd like that to be someone else. It's probably not a problem to translate things to English, but someone from Germany would be preferred for this. Thanks! Please let me know what you think about Q1-Q3 quickly :) Maren

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Compilation Problem : ninja error
by Syed Shaharyaar Hussain 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

I have successfully build the project using cmake, however, ninja is giving an error during compilation: [ninja: error: '/c/msys64/mingw64/lib', needed by 'lib/libinkscape_base.dll.a', missing and no known rule to make it] I am also attaching a snapshot of my terminal to bring more clarity to the problem. Can somebody please help in resolving this issue? Regards Shaharyaar

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Status on extensions for 1.0?
by Bryce Harrington 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hi Martin, Would you mind giving us a status report on how the extension work is coming? Maybe a list of all the extensions and for each whether they're good to go, in progress, broken, etc. In reading some user critiques of Inkscape, sounds like some of the extensions may be underutilized, so 1.0 may be a useful point to do some selective curation? Curious about if you already have plans underway there. Bryce

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HelperFunctions.cmake 109 (check error)
by Syed Shaharyaar Hussain 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Greetings My name is Syed Shaharyaar Hussain. I am building Inkscape so that I start working on Project Refactoring. I think I am very close to building the project, however I am encountering an error. I am attaching error-log and terminal snapshot to clarify my problem. Can anybody help me in this regard? Thank You! Shaharyaar Regards [image: helper funtion 109 check error.PNG]

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Inkscape Build Issue
by Syed Shaharyaar Hussain 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Greetings! My name is Syed Shaharyaar Hussain. I was trying to build Inkscape on Windows using msys so that I can start my work on Project Refactoring. I followed the instructions provided on Compiling Inkscape on Windows with MSYS2 <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_with_…>. However, during build process I am encountering an error. I have attached the snapshot of my terminal as it will bring more clarity for understanding the nature of problem. Error is “C Compiler is not able to compile a simple test program”. Can you please shed light over what’s going wrong in the build process? Regards

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [CREATE] R.I.P. mrdocs (1963--2019)
by "Christoph Schäfer" 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

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GSoC application review
by Valentin Ionita 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

Hello again, developers! I am Valentin, or @vanntile as you may know me on Rocket. As Bryce had recommended me a couple of days ago, I have created a repo where I've put the necessary resources for my application to Inkscape. This is a long-planned step and I hope I can get some overall feedback on the draft and some specific feedback from Tav. I am planning on working on the CSS support and JS polyfills projects, both of which you're a mentor on. You can find my draft here https://gitlab.com/vanntile/inkscape-gsoc-application I hope you have a wonderful week coming up! Valentin

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Critical bugs and the Beta release plan
by Bryce Harrington 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

Hi all, Beta was roughly planned for March, but it looks like more work is needed on bugs. Below is a review of where we're at and proposal for how to decide when we're ready for releasing beta (and after that, when we can enter Freeze). There are two high importance bugs labeled "Blocker", #153 "Language selector doesn't work" and #45 "Text rendering offset". Fortunately, both are getting some attention, and Tav has potentially fixed the latter. I've assigned #45 to Tav, but we need someone to own #153. Marc, could you take it? Blockers: * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/45 [Tav] * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/153 [Mc?] There are several critical importance bugs. In gitlab is #35 "Crash on exit following menu rewrite" which several people are confirming; there is a backtrace but it needs some analysis work done to figure out what is happening. Can someone take assignment on that? In launchpad there is #1806878 "Master not working without GUI" and #1809676 "Crash on Undo, Cut Path, Divide path, etc." Tav has done some work on the first and has taken the assignment on it. The second has a good backtrace but needs someone to investigate. Who'd like to take a stab at it? Criticals: * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/35 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1806878 [Tav] * https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1809676 In addition to those, there are about a dozen more bugs targeted to 1.0. A couple of note are: #125 "Toolbar empty after startup", and #96 "Text object changes size". The first sounds like it needs Tav or Alex to give advice on, the other has a MR by Joseph Da Silva that sounds like it will fix it. Milestone 1.0: * https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues?milestone_title=1.0 For Beta, I propose we set as pre-requisites that all Blocker bugs must be closed, and all Critical bugs must be Assigned and listed as Known Issues in the release notes, before we initiate Chill and start work on the beta release process. For Freeze, I propose we set as pre-requisites that all Blocker bugs are closed, that all Critical bugs targeted to 1.0 are closed, and that all other 1.0 Milestone bugs must be Assigned and listed as Known issues in the release notes. After Freeze has started, if any new Blocker bugs crop up, then Freeze will be halted, any established release schedule is canceled, and the release put on indefinite hold until the Blocker has been cleared. How do these rules sound? Bryce

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