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Announcing the 2006 Summer of Code Projects
by Bryce Harrington 25 May '06

25 May '06

Hi all! Today was the final day for the Google Summer of Code proposal rankings. As you can imagine, a number of us inkscaper's have been in deep, intensive discussions and votes to arrive at the final prioritization. The final decision of which 4 to select was extremely difficult, and really came down to the wire. A large part of the controversy was whether to have both of the SVG filter projects in the top 4, or to go with 4 distinct projects. But just then, in an amazing stroke of luck, Google was kind enough to allocate an additional project to Inkscape, increasing us to 5 slots! :-) Thus, our final project selection is as follows: Application Student Mentor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SVG Filter Effects #1 Niko Kiirala Bulia Inkboard Protocol Spec / Lib Conversion Dale Harvey David Yip PDF Export with Cairo Mikos Erdelyi Ted Gould Memory Optimization Marina Diezler MenTaLguY SVG Filter Effects #2 Hugo Rodrigues Bulia As I understand it, one of the SVG filter projects will be focused on the internal handling of filters at the SPObject level, the other will be focused on the rendering of the filters. Thank you to everyone who applied this year. There were a number of excellent projects, and arriving at the final selection was extremely tough. Many of the proposed ideas were extremely cool and we would love to see them developed, and would love to be able to welcome the applicants to be part of the Inkscape community. Many criteria went into our final decision, more than can be easily related. However, one of the driving considerations was for work we felt would maximize the benefit to Inkscape users. We know from user feedback that these projects, if completed successfully, will have a transformational effect on Inkscape as an application - by the end of this summer, Inkscape will likely be a light-year ahead of where it is today. Bryce

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Effects documentation
by Justin Wikinator 24 May '06

24 May '06

I would like to see some basic documentation for every effect in Inkscape telling: - what state Inkscape must be in for the effect to be successful - how the effect responds to errors - what changes to the document result from the effect - dependencies of the effect (language, additional libraries) A wiki seems like it's a good place to start for this documentation. Someone has already started a page for this here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WhatEffectsDo, and I have added one more example. I was going to attempt this on my own, but I thought I'd do a callout to the developers first because they know what their effects do better than I do, and when I was effects code on the SVN some of it wasn't documented much. Thanks for effecting, --Justin

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Summer of Code - info for mentors and students
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi all, I think Google has still not put out the official announcement about accepted proposals, but they've emailed the students. I checked with google last night, and there have been no changes in Inkscape's projects from what I announced earlier. Students may begin work immediately; it would be good for all students and mentors to touch base and say hello. As well, here's some info that will hopefully help fill in a few blanks: Summer Schedule: ---------------- May 23 - Google notifies selected students Students may begin work on projects Jun 30 - Mid-program mentor evaluations of student progress due Aug 21 - Student projects due Sep 5 - Mentor and student evaluations due Release Early, Release Often: ----------------------------- One of the principles of open source development is that you publish your code as you go. This is different than what students may be used to, but it is extremely important that this be followed. Students should plan on putting out a series of releases of their work through the summer. These releases don't need to be perfect, or even particularly remarkable, but by putting out releases, others can provide interim feedback so that by the end of the summer there will be no doubt that the student has been successful. For the mid-program evaluation, mentors should take into account whether the student has released their code in their evaluation. SVN Access: ----------- Google requires that all students conduct their work in a public repository. For inkscape, this will be Inkscape's subversion service hosted at sourceforge.net. We have a simple policy for gaining SVN access to be followed. The applicant submits two patches and has them accepted, then requests access from one of the admins (Mental, Bulia, myself, or Jon Cruz). Some students have already qualified; for those who havent, they should simply send a couple simple patches (maybe the start of the SOC work? or a small bugfix?) SVN Branches: ------------- Since we are in feature freeze, the student's work should be done on a branch in SVN. Even if we weren't in feature freeze, this would be good practice. The mentor should probably either set up this branch for the student, or help the student create it. Merging to Head: ---------------- The mentor and student should also plan to move the branch to HEAD at an appropriate point during the summer. It should occur at some point after the 0.44.0 release, but before the end of the SOC program. As part of this process, the student will also need to work with other inkscape developers to resolve integration problems, bugs, or other issues that arise. For this reason, integrating early will give the most gain and least pain. ;-) (The merge is likely a point where the student will really need his mentor's help the most.) Blogs: ------ Last year we enjoyed following student's progress via their blogs. This is entirely optional, but if the student wishes to run a blog, it can be aggregated at planet.inkscape.org; contact nicu at nicubunu dot ro. Bryce

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inkscape svn+debian
by Khiraly 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi! Do I need to download svn trunk, if I want to test the prereleases? For the debian packaging I think the debian/control file missed a ',' character in it. So I attached a really minor patch(lol). cd debian; svn diff -x -u >control.diff I think the version from '0.43+0.44pre1-1' should changed to something '0.44pre1-1'. Am I wrong? However Im not able to build from inkscape svn. From the svn snapshot tarballs compiles fine. What is need to running in the fresh svn checkout, to be identic to the svn snapshot tarballs? Im talking about this tarball: http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-20060524-0300.tar.bz2 >From fresh checkout I got this error message: > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip noopt" dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b dh_clean debian/rules build make: *** No rule to make target `configure', needed by `builddir/config.status'. Stop. If I copy the 'configure' file, I got this: cd builddir \ && CFLAGS="-g -O0" CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" \ ../configure --host=i486-linux-gnu --build=i486-linux-gnu \ --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\ ${prefix}/share/info configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in .. ../.. ../../.. make: *** [builddir/config.status] Error 1 So I think it some auto tool here. Can somebody help me a little? Khiraly

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Upcoming desktop-related conferences
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '06

24 May '06

For anyone looking for more conferences to attend! :-) Bryce ----- Forwarded message from John Cherry <cherry@...1...> ----- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:45:02 -0700 From: John Cherry <cherry@...1...> To: desktop_architects@...1... Cc: Subject: [Desktop_architects] Calendar - desktop-related activities Several folks at DAM-2 requested a calendar of desktop-related events for 2006. Below are the events that OSDL has on their radar screen and are supporting in various capacities... May 23-25 LWE Brazil - Sao Paulo http://www.linuxworldbrasil.com.br/ June 1-2 FSG/LSB Summit - Boston http://www.freestandards.org/en/LSB_Summit June 24-30 GUADEC (The GNOME Conference)- Catalonia, Spain http://guadec.org/ July 17-18 Desktop Developers Conference - Ottawa http://www.desktopcon.org/2006/ July 19-22 Ottawa Linux Symposium - Ottawa http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/ July 24-28 O'Reilly Open Source Convention - Portland, OR http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ Aug 14-17 LinuxWorld Expo - San Francisco http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A Sept 23-30 KDE World Summit (aKademy 2006) - Dublin, Ireland http://events.kde.org/info/conference2006/ Oct 23-27 Second Printing Summit - Lexington, Kentucky (week of) (Agenda and logistics TBD) Oct Audio and Multimedia Summit - TBD Dec 4-5 DAM-3 (TBD) - Portland, OR Dec 6-7 Second Power Management Summit (TBD) - Portland, OR Other Events NOT on the OSDL radar (yet) ======================================== June 28-30 GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit - Ottawa Sept 11-13 OpenOffice.org Conference - Lyon, France http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/ --- John Cherry OSDL DTL _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@...701... https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] distcheck
by Ralf Stephan 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hello, while removing obstacles to a successfu make distcheck, I came to the following error. Do you have an idea how to fix this? ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean: ./src/libnr/test-nr.xml ./src/libnr/test-nr.log ./src/svg/test-svg.xml ./src/svg/test-svg.log ./src/xml/test-xml.xml ./src/xml/test-xml.log ./src/test-all.xml ./src/test-all.log make[1]: *** [distcleancheck] Error 1 make: *** [distcheck] Error 2 ralf

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NEW: palettes
by bulia byak 24 May '06

24 May '06

(inspired by the recent palette improvements and with the help of Aaron Spike) * The new "Inkscape default" color palette was added. It contains a range of grays, standard HTML named colors, and a full range of colors sorted by their HSL values (475 colors overall). It is generated by a Python script which is also put into SVN in share/palettes. * A number of specialized color palettes, useful in color-coordinated projects, was borrowed from GIMP: Reds, Greens, Blues, Gold, Royal, Khaki, Hilite, and Topographic. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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The horizontal scrollbar does not disappear in the newest swatch
by Khiraly 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi! Just a minor remark about the new swatch dialog. If I set it to the size 'tiny', and switch to a palette like tango, where there not realy much colors, the horizontal scrollbar does not disappear, and the palette is scaled horizontally to fit all the space. I think the right behaviour would be: * no scrollbar, if not required * no horizontal scaling (the palette) Here is a demonstating screenshot, with a palette, which has only 3 colors: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2708/swatchnotscale2pb.png Khiraly

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Release Wardens for Inkscape 0.44
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '06

24 May '06

Follow up to the Feature Freeze announcement... For this release, Jon Cruz and Aaron Spike have accepted the roles of Release Wardens. Once we get to Hard Freeze, they will have the responsibility for determining what bug fixes will be included in releases, and which will be deferred to future releases. Thanks Jon and Aaron! Bryce

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Feature Freeze for Inkscape 0.44
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi all, This is to announce that we are now officially moving into Feature Freeze. At this time, feature development work on HEAD should cease, in favor of bug fixing work. Any bug fixing work is welcomed. I will be maintaining a list of must-fix bugs, which I will publish within the next day. If you'd like to continue feature development work, you're encouraged to do so on an SVN branch. (If you don't know how to create a branch in SVN, just ask!) ACSpike will publish a -pre0 release ASAP. We will encourage all users to help us test out pre-releases and report issues found. Thank you to all who have been helping Aaron sort out distcheck issues! I would also like to take this chance to thank lucychili for her work at triaging our bug list. There are still some bugs left to be ranked, but due to her work we're close to having them fully ranked. Bryce

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