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[cdibona@...819...: Re: mentoring techniques [was Re: Duplicate project requests]]
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Fixed ----- Forwarded message from Chris DiBona <cdibona@...819...> ----- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:19:59 -0700 From: Chris DiBona <cdibona@...819...> To: summer-administrators@...820... Reply-To: summer-administrators@...820... Subject: Re: mentoring techniques [was Re: Duplicate project requests] Hi Bryce, Sorry about that, the change is going out in the next push. Chris On 6/3/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote: <...> > P.S. Chris, if you read this, it looks like the Inkscape link on the > summerofcode page is wrong; it should point to www.inkscape.org. Thanks! > -- Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape Project joins Google's Summer of Code
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Google has accepted the Inkscape project as an available mentor for their Summer of Code program. In this program, students can undertake a coding project for the mentoring project. Google will award $4500 to the student for completion of the work, and donate $500 to the sponsoring organization. John Cliff was instrumental in motivating us to get involved, and will be serving as the primary coordinator and point of contact. He will help link students up with Inkscape developers and keep an eye on the overall process. He has created this page listing ideas for projects: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Googles_Summer_Of_Code (I'd like to propose that the $500 provided to Inkscape be used as a bounty for a follow-on project to the given work, such as review, integration, testing, documentation, etc. to be determined by the student with guidance from the inkscape developers.) If you're a student in the U.S. and can code, you may find this to be an extremely enjoyable way to spend your summer! The due date for your application to Google is June 14th. Work is to be completed by Sept 1st. If you're interested, please email John Cliff (simarilius at yahoo dot com) so he's aware; he can also help review your proposal or give advice as you go. Good luck! Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Chris DiBona <cdibona@...819...> ----- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:12:14 -0700 From: Chris DiBona <cdibona@...819...> To: bryce@...260... Reply-To: Chris DiBona <cdibona@...819...> Subject: Fwd: [M#27335131] Inkscape interested in mentoring Hi Bryce, Sounds good. You got in just under the wire. ------------------------ Trakken Ticket Info ------------------------ Ticket ID: 27335131 Ticket State: Open Message Type: Incoming Message Queue: Code Acknowledge: ALL products:WorkFlow:Auto Replies:Code autoreply Ticket URL: http://google.trakken.com/cgi-bin/search.py?ticket_id=27335131 -------------------------- Message Follows -------------------------- Hi Chris, The Inkscape project would be willing to serve as a mentor. We've mentored student projects before, most notably Inkboard (http://inkboard.sourceforge.net/). John Cliff (simarilius@...36...) can serve as point of contact, and has itemized a list of possible projects: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Googles_Summer_Of_Code (In particular, I would highlight the 'pdf library' effort. PDF support in open source drawing programs is pretty haphazard currently. Scribus has the best PDF support but it is very tied into that program's internals. The Scribus and Inkscape developers have discussed creating a stand-alone library for operating on PDFs derived from Scribus' PDF code. We estimate this would be a 5,000-10,000 line effort.) Thanks, Bryce Bryce Harrington ~ bryce@...260... ~ bryce@...1... -- Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com ----- End forwarded message -----

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Project proposal advice
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Some of the people writing proposals for Inkscape projects had questions about if they were proposing a "big enough" project, and worried that they needed to have more ambitious features. I started a wiki page on our site with some suggestions and advice for scoping out project plans: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals Please feel free to add to that page if you have advice to give. :-) Bryce

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Translation doubts
by Lucas Vieites 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Hi, I'm updating the spanish translation for the 0.42 release and I'm running into some doubts: /src/dialogs/tiledialog.cpp - line 817: "Equal Height": Is this a verb like in: "I'm going to make the height equal, I will equal the heights.", or rather "These objects have the same heights, they have equal heights" - line 886: "Equal Width": idem - BBox: Is this short for "bounding box"? Should it be translated or is ti s astandard way of calling that kind of item? Thanks, I'll be bothering you with some more later on ;-) -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Blog <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Project Stats for June 1st, 2005
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

As can be seen, SourceForge has started their new statistics system finally! The numbers reported are done differently than before, so I've had to change what we track in our stats. Statistics May 15 Jun 1 ========== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: * 38 Total SF Page Views * 1,935,964 Total SF Downloads * 254,647 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 18,691 19,149 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 181 183 Lines of Code in src/: 373,651 374,180 Code lines 259,984 260,236 Comment line 67,053 67,136 Blank 53,244 53,443 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 27,790 Lines of content in website: 39,865 42,490 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 27,052 26,729 Bugs open/total: 208/1196 215/1223 Features open/total: 442/ 712 453/ 728 Patches open/total: 11/ 221 11/ 230 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 11,897 12,040 Inkscape-devel membership: 173 179 Inkscape-announce membership: 197 202 Inkscape-user membership: 242 248 Num Translations: 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.0 47.8 * - Statistics unavailable

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SVG Scene Toolkit debuts
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Just got this announcement of an SVG canvas based on Cairo. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Liam Breck <svg@...808...> ----- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:50:02 -0400 From: Liam Breck <svg@...808...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Subject: SVG Scene Toolkit debuts [Hi Bryce, could you forward this to the Inkscape list for me? thanks!] Network Improv Introduces the... SVG Scene/Canvas Library for Cairo & Pango http://networkimprov.net/airwrx/awscene.html Our SVG Scene toolkit enables applications to create views by constructing an SVG content model, or scene. (This functionality is also called a canvas.) The scene may be displayed simultaneously in multiple windows, possibly on separate clients. Rendering of the scene is done via Cairo and Pango, which in turn support multiple targets, e.g. Windows, MacOS, Postscript, Xlib, etc. The scene may be accessed and manipulated by multiple processes, enabling compound documents. The SVG Scene library supports ownership of content model elements by widgets of high-level application frameworks, but is not tied in to such frameworks. The current release is a prototype that requires Windows 2000 or later, and renders using native Win32 functions. Full source code is included in the download, licensed under GNU LGPL. Feedback requested! Liam Breck Network Improv Boston, Mass. USA ----- End forwarded message -----

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sp_document_new
by De Winne, Joris 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hello, I'm trying to create a viewer based on the inkscape SVG viewer. I based my viewer on the code in inkview.cpp. But during execution I always get a segmentation fault when I call sp_document_new. I create a LayoutRenderer and on that object I call the function renderLayout. Here's some part of the code I use: LayoutRenderer::LayoutRenderer() { changed = false; uriLatest = "latest.svg"; vector<string> result; vector<string>::iterator it; result = Util::putFileInVector(uriLatest); latest = ""; it = result.begin(); while(it != result.end()) { latest += *it + "\n"; it++; } Inkscape::GC::init(); setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C"); if (result.size() > 0) { changed = true; } } void LayoutRenderer::renderLayout() { cout << "Start rendering \n"; GtkWidget * w = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); cout << "Created new window\n"; SPDocument * doc = sp_document_new (uriLatest.c_str(), TRUE, TRUE, false); cout << "Created new document\n"; GtkWidget * view = sp_svg_view_widget_new (doc); cout << "Created new view\n"; cout << "rendering created objects \n"; sp_svg_view_widget_set_resize (SP_SVG_VIEW_WIDGET (view), FALSE, sp_document_width (doc), sp_document_height (doc)); sp_document_ensure_up_to_date (doc); sp_document_unref (doc); gtk_widget_show (view); cout << "rendering add to container\n"; gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (w), view); gtk_widget_show (w); cout << "Start rgoing to main loop\n"; gtk_main (); } The function gtk_init (&argc, (char ***) &argv); has been called prior to all the rendering calls. This is the output I get: Start rendering Created new window Segmentation fault Any help is welcome? Thnx, Joris - - - - - - - DISCLAIMER- - - - - - - - Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and/or attachments is strictly prohibited. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Furthermore, the company does not warrant a proper and complete transmission of this information, nor does it accept liability for any delays. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. Thank you.

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Starting the Inkscape 0.42 release process
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

We had tentatively selected today as the starting date for the Inkscape 0.42 release process. I sense people have been looking forward to this day, and are ready to see a new Inkscape release. :-) It's been quite a while since our last release, and so many of our newer developers don't have first hand experience with our release processes. Here's a brief run down of what we usually do: First, we enter a wrap up phase called the "Frost", where developers are encouraged to bring any features they've been working on to a suitable state for formal release, stop adding any new features, and to start focusing on bug fixing. Generally this phase only lasts for a week or two. Next, we enter a bug fixing phase called the "Feature Freeze". We identify some bug fixing goals, using a scoring system that folks have found to give a fun challenge. A list of "must fix bugs" is also generated, that the developers want to see fixed before a release is allowed; we usually don't get every one of these bugs fixed, but we certainly try to leave as few open as possible. I will be posting daily reports on our bug status as we go. Translations, documentation, release notes, and so forth also need to be updated and finalized. This phase can go on for several weeks, depending on how bad the bugs are. Once all of the must fix bugs are fixed and all the objectives have been met, we enter the "Hard Freeze" phase. Two "Freeze Wardens" are named and all development is done as patches submitted to the freeze wardens for review and integration. This phase is intended to be quite short - a matter of days. This is intended to give us a final QA focus. Finally, we tag and branch the codebase, create the packages, and proceed with the release. :-) For Inkscape 0.42, I estimate that going through this process will take on the order of one to two months. It is driven largely by how quickly the bugs can be fixed, so please plan on contributing some time to this effort this month, and hopefully we can make swift progress towards our goal. Bryce

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EPS export
by Franz Haeuslschmid 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Dear developers of Inkscape, I have made one observation, that could help to improve Inkscape. I noticed that EPS files that are output by the `Save as' dialog start with ,---- | %!PS-Adobe-3.0 `---- However, the documentation for GSview (for instance) states, that EPS files start with ,---- | %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 `---- and that is one of several prerequisites for an usable EPS. I'm far from being an expert on EPS, however inserting `EPSF-3.0' manually did for me the trick to make GSview treat the exported EPS files as real EPS. I use Inkscape (Inkscape0505310200.zip) on a MS-Windows platform. Franz.

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New OSX compile problems
by Jon A. Cruz 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I'm trying to start building Inkscape on OS X. I'm on Tiger, and setup with fink unstable. I've gotten to the link, where things are failing. Any ideas? g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded- virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -I/sw/include - D__LONG_DOUBLE_128__ -g -O0 -o i\ nkscape --export-dynamic main.o -Wl,-bind_at_load -L/sw/lib libinkpre.a application/libinkapp.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a trace/ libtrace.a svg/libspsvg.a widg\ ets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libcroco/libcroco.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a livarot/ libvarot.a ui/view/libuiview.a\ ui/libui.a ui/dialog/libuidialog.a ui/widget/libuiwidget.a extension/ libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/ internal/libinte\ rnal.a extension/script/libscript.a xml/libspxml.a util/libinkutil.a io/libio.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a debug/libinkdebug.a -L/usr/ X11R6/lib /sw/lib\ /libgtkmm-2.4.dylib /sw/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.dylib /sw/lib/ libatkmm-1.6.dylib /sw/lib/libpangomm-1.4.dylib /sw/lib/ libglibmm-2.4.dylib /sw/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dy\ lib /sw/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.dylib -lXrandr -lXinerama -lXext -lX11 - lXcursor /sw/lib/libatk-1.0.dylib /sw/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.dylib /sw/ lib/libpangoxft-1.0\ .dylib /sw/lib/libpangox-1.0.dylib /sw/lib/libxslt.dylib /sw/lib/ libxml2.dylib -ldl /sw/lib/libsigc-2.0.dylib -lpng -lz /sw/lib/ libpopt.dylib -lXft -lXrende\ r -lfontconfig /sw/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.dylib /sw/lib/ libpango-1.0.dylib -lm /sw/lib/libgobject-2.0.dylib /sw/lib/ libgmodule-2.0.dylib /sw/lib/libglib-2.0.dy\ lib /sw/lib/libintl.dylib /sw/lib/libiconv.dylib -lfreetype /sw/lib/ libgc.dylib -lpthread /usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _locale_charset /sw/lib/libiconv.dylib(localcharset.o) definition of _locale_charset /sw/lib/libintl.dylib(localcharset.lo) definition of _locale_charset /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: typeinfo for Atk::Implementor typeinfo for Gtk::Bin typeinfo for Gtk::Dialog typeinfo for Gtk::Object typeinfo for Gtk::Widget typeinfo for Gtk::Window typeinfo for Gtk::Container typeinfo for Glib::ObjectBase typeinfo for Glib::Object typeinfo for Glib::Interface typeinfo for Gtk::CellLayout typeinfo for Gtk::TreeModelColumnRecord typeinfo for Gtk::ComboBox typeinfo for Gtk::Box typeinfo for Gtk::VBox typeinfo for Gtk::FileChooser typeinfo for Gtk::FileChooserDialog typeinfo for Gtk::HBox typeinfo for Gtk::HandleBox typeinfo for Gtk::MessageDialog typeinfo for Gtk::Adjustment typeinfo for Gtk::CheckButton typeinfo for Gtk::CellEditable typeinfo for Gtk::ToggleButton typeinfo for Gtk::Entry typeinfo for Gtk::Button typeinfo for Gtk::Editable collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2

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