Hi Martin,
Been a long time since I was active on here, so before I give my 2ps worth, good job on all the recent improvements everyone.
* I'd definitely support Tavs push for CMYK support, its got to be one of the most common questions we've had from users about capability for years. Its also one of the stumbling blocks to being more useful in serious print type jobs. * on the M1 mac for René, that sounds like a good investment to me. Its not a massive cost, but it potentially unlocks a big improvement in our mac support.
Cheers
John
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 8:33 PM Martin Owens doctormo@geek-2.com wrote:
Dear Developer team,
Thank you to everyone who made the developer meeting today; we talked a lot about what the budget should look like from the developer team. I have comprised the ideas here which I will be bringing to the next board meeting to be held on June 4th 2021 ( https://inkscape.org/cals/event/2/)
Current items to be requested immediately:
- The Developer team requests a General Administrator who can take
care of many of the organisational tasks which we currently struggle to. This is deemed more important than any funding for specific features. I'd like to invite everyone to join me for a meeting to flesh out what this would look like, we'll use previous work as a base and work from there. Please come to BigBlueButton next Sunday 30th May at 17:00UTC (https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/) to make sure our proposal is detailed enough.
- We would like to budget $5k on macOS speed problems; this is to be
spent on analysis first, and then solutions second. The whole developer team recognises how dire the situation is with René specifically saying that without a fix we should not release for macOS in the future.
Future budget requests which we do not have a consensus for, or details are missing:
- CMYK support; Tav would like this, developers feel it's not
important enough. A user study would be useful to know for sure.
- PathFinder; Taking over, or working with the Linux foundation for
their Rust based pathfinder is a great way to bring GPU rendering to Inkscape. Marc is to contact the linux foundation and Linkmauve about collaboration or taking over the project.
- ARM Machine for René; If we continue to develop macOS, René will
need one of the newer ARM based macOS machine which would be set up to do CI builds. Improving the ability to check and build testing builds for macOS.
Thanks everyone for attending, we had quite a lot of the developer team there today and a lot of students so I feel good that we got to see a lot of different opinions. But let me know in this thread if you have details to add, or can't make the above meeting and want to make sure something is included.
Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Team Hat _______________________________________________ Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org