Hey everyone,
New time for this week's developer meeting.
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mikekov, Vaibhav, ltlnx, René
The meeting time had changed but the website has issues sending out reminders to everyone. A reminder here that you can subscribe the the ical for the developer team's calender here: https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar.ics add this as a remote calendar in your calendar software and you should get up to date reminders.
Martin looked into why the website wasn't behaving and found the crontab on the new machine wasn't migrated. Sent an email to Ben who was contracted to do that work for the migration.
Mikekov, Vaibhav and Martin talk about spin button we have a long talk about user experience. Screen sharing was done and we worked out the share of work between Mikekov and Martin who are trying to unify the widget experence.
Mikekov has been working on the font selector which uses a preview and icon view which are going away. These are being replaced with ListView and GridView widgets. We also can hide certain styles to collapase families of fonts together. This also resolves some cut off preview problems.
Viabhav, not doing too much, tried to replicate the extensions gallery crash. Not replcated on he's local linux machine. Had a discussion with Jabier about LPE archetchture, and wants to write an article about it to clarify the architecture.
We talked about the problems in the lpe system and fixing issues with the defs.
litnx has been pusing 1.4.x fixes, including the welcome dialog. Martin asked if he could take care of the backports.
René has been busy with the prepartions for the 1.4.3 release with updates to the dependencies. Lots of deps because it's been a while. Currently investigating the macOS tofu problem, there are some problems with kerning which might be caused by a dep which might not be fixable.
We talked about the release schedule and getting everything ready. The conservative updates to the deps might be a better way to update the macOS and Martin suggests René make an assessment about the work they might have to do vs. the benefit of updating the deps for the point release.
René wants to revive the tests for the windows CI. Pbs asked if we could use clang, this was tested but doesn't look like it would work.
Thanks everyone for coming everyone.
Best Regards, Martin Owens