Dear Devs,
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Charlotte, Martin, Roland, Vaibhav
Inkscape 1.5 alpha has a schedule with Maren for how to announce 1.5. The blockers are resolved for the code side of things. The date for the alpha2 is December 2nd. The alpha1 was canceled because of release issues and scheduling issues.
Charlotte asks about the Gtk4 release which fixes a bunch of windows HiRes screen issues. Roland will check what versions these fixes might have been released in if backported. The issues are critical enough that we really can't release an alpha with these crashes they are so servere.
Roland brings up an issue with some missing icons that needs to be resolved.
Vaibhav has been working on flatpak packaging. Trying a local pipeline to get it working, which it does but its a bit of a mess. The goal is to get it into an optional CI build. There's a manifest file which loads the sources. We talk about some of the ways of loading or generating the manifest in the CI, as well as how to deliver the build.
Tav has been working on named font variations which was in the old font browser but is missing in the new one. Some issues with code that's making it more difficult to sort out.
Martin talks about ftOsama working on document properties color tab and getting it to the point were it implements the new color work that Martin has worked on in the backend.
Martin has been working on Color support and getting the right color space into the document at the right time.
Vaibhav wanted to talk about the steam release and pono's questions. He's waiting for pono to respond about the questions next. Martin suggests that the steam release can be done at any time, Tav recommends pushing pono directly.
Roland brings the issues of the website to the foe. There's a general agreement that a lot of things can't happen while the website is in its current state and the good news is that its so unavailable atm that taking it down for a week would probably not be noticed too much. But this can't happen when a release or about screen contest of other things are going on.
Next meeting in Nov 2st is the later meeting.
Thanks everyone!
Best Regards, Martin Owens