Dear Developers,
This week's meeting notes are here.
Next Developer Meeting in May 8th
https://inkscape.org/cals/1/Attending: MikeKov, Nicco, René, Jonathan, Martin, Vansh Uppa, Rafael,
Tav
Apologies: Marc
René updated the build pipeline for macOS, mostly small cleanups which
open us up to back-porting Ventura support to 1.2.x the target is this
weekend and we can be finally done with the venture issue. Working on
more automation to improve release procedures, upgrade openssl which is
a little old now. Looking into contributing to the Gtk osx upstream.
Jonathan has been doing preparatory work for importers, checking files
are rendered correctly. Helping with the object structure importer.
Dividing up the work.
A single person so far in the Gtk external position, the prospect is an
experienced gtkmm programmer. No one has yet applied for the internal
position, the deadline is Sunday. Developers were all reminded of the
deadlines.
Martin recorded a user-session (a session where an Inkscape user and
developer explore new functionality and locate bugs together). Also
collected issues from his direct sponsors, this week Martin has been
working through these lists of issues. Most are small fixes but some
larger works including fixing a much needed Font Toolbar problem and
import and export issues. Some are refactoring for 1.3.1 but others are
scheduled for 1.3. Not many issues for the Accelerator Program this
week as that wasn't a focus.
Grid properties issues were worked on by Mikekov and Martin. Grids work
to fix all the issues, happy with the refactoring overall, but even
though users won't see any benefit, it's a good change under the hood.
A refactoring branch is schedule for 1.3.1
Mikekov also has been cleaning up runtime warnings.
Rafael has been helping out with various merge requests and bugs. He's
dropping out of the bug accelerator program because he's feeling it's
more pressure than expected and more like a job. He suggested perhaps a
bug bounty program would be more casual and more comfortable for him.
Jonathan thanked Rafael for his involvement and his feedback. Giving
contractors the right information about how /working/ for Inkscape is
different than volunteering should be included in future programs.
Tav worked on the color management refactoring. There's a color profile
element, which is a bit of a catch all and contains too much
functionality so it will need to be progressively cleaned out over
time. The developer shad a discussion about the differences between
Display, Device and element icc profiles and what functionality is
intended by each. More research is needed.
Jonathan is interested in hosting a smaller, possibly European centric
developer meet-up in the Autumn. Five people in the developer meeting
indicated their interest. It would all depend on scheduling and booking
places to stay.
The Gimp project is hosting an event in May; Martin received an
invitation to participate and talk about the integration potential
between Blender, Gimp and Inkscape. The event is being hosted at the
Blender HQ in Amsterdam. The invites have been forwarded to Marc and
Chris R. as the people who are both physically close and with the most
experience with the topic. Only travel funding would be required from
our side as the Gimp project have hired a boat to stay in.
This weeks group activity was reviewing a merge request by Vansh Uppa,
where Martin and Mikekov had a difference of opinion about interface
design principles and a discussion was had about the best was of
designing functionality so that it both safe, less disruptive and
consistant. Rafael kindly offered to act as a tie breaker and review
the merge request after both Martin and Mikekov defended and explained
their positions.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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