I would like to work on improving the guides system in inkscape, including adding a dialog listing current guides, and allowing for easier adding/removing/editing of guides. I have never worked with open source software before, but I have used inkscape from a user point of view for a number of years, and hope that gsoc will be an entry point for contributing to the project. I know that gsoc has not announced their accepted organizations yet, but I wanted to get started as soon as possible (to hopefully increase my chances of acceptance).

I have a couple of questions real quick:

The project seems to have been started by a user a while back (https://code.launchpad.net/~john-glassmyer/inkscape/guides-improvement), but he didn't take ownership of the spec, so I assume that this project is still available to work on?

Also I understand that inkscape has a "two patches" rule before a user is given commit rights. How big do these patches have to be, and should we try to relate these patches to the project we are looking into proposing or is it better to try to fix a bug that is listed as more important?

Thanks!

Mike Lyons