Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.92 release status (volunteers needed)

5 Oct 2016

      Hi there,
I can do my best to try to assist in creating an installer for Windows. I'm
a long time Windows user.
1. However I'm not sure I can generate the binaries of the Inkscape on
Windows platform (the easiest path, or at least so it seemed at first
sight, was to compile Inkscape on Windows through Visual Studio. But it
demanded some paid plugin (GDB) to make it work...) myself. Any thoughts on
this?
5. Tell me what steps should be taken and I'll try to help. I love these
contests. Really good material comes from them almost always. :-)
Let me know how I can be useful for the team.
--Victor Westmann
2016-10-04 19:28 GMT-07:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...>:
...
Thanks Bryce,
As discussed on IRC, I'm taking the backport-proposed list off your
hands: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.tag=backport-pro
posed
And I might be able to run the screen contest. So long as I don't step
on Josh's toes and I can get (or we already have) password for the
inkscape group on deviantArt. (or Josh if you can make me co-owner of
the group)
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 18:06 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
...
A number of different things need to be done to get the release out
the
door, but presently these are the top priorities:

Packaging for Windows and OSX - Has anyone taken a shot at

doing
      Windows or OSX packaging for the snapshot releases?  I'm
worried
      when we get to the point of doing the release announcement, we
may
      not have packages supporting all platforms.  I would be ok if
we
      end up having the initial release be Linux-only but I know most
      people would be disappointed if we don't have simultaneous
      platform support.
  *** We need volunteers to work on/coordinate packaging for each

of
          these platforms.  If no volunteers are available then we'll
          drop that platform from the release announcement plans.

DPI Scaling bug #1389723 - This appears to be the last serious
regression that really *has* to be fixed for the release.  Good
news is that there is already a proposed fix and a plan in

place
      for resolving it.  There is no named assignee, although several
      people have been working on it.  But right now it needs more
eyes
      to review and test it, with a particular look at usability and
how
      the fix will be accepted by affected users.
  *** We need a core developer to take a coordinational role for
      this bug and help shepherd the proposed patches to a
      resolution.  No particular experience with the problem is
      needed, just available time to test, track remaining

issues,
          and chase down people to address them.

Disable unstable features, bug #1589340 - I've landed most of

the
      proposed changes, but there is one more to do (comment #11,
      essentially re-introduce the fix for bug #619903).
  *** We need someone to apply the fix for bug #619903 to the

0.92
          branch.  If no volunteers are available, then I'll take
care
          of it when I get some time.

Fonts not shown in font manager (Win32), bug #1416674 - This
is platform-specific on Windows but appears to be relatively

bad
      for folks.  Its not a 0.92 regression but was a regression on
      0.91.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a clear path to a
      fix, and we do not have an assignee for the bug.
  *** We need someone to record this bug as a Known Issue in the
      release notes.
  *** We need a skilled developer to investigate the bug,

identify a
          solution, and volunteer to be the assignee for the bug.  If
no
          volunteers are available, I'll drop this as a release
blocker.

About screen - Josh and Martin were coordinating work on a

contest
      here, but I don't think it got kicked off.  I understand Josh
has
      been quite tied up with other issues, so perhaps someone could
      volunteer to assist with the grunt work of getting this off the
      ground?  I think there's still going to be adequate time to do
a
      contest if it gets going soonish but I don't want to delay the
      release on it; worst case we can just rev the number on 0.91's
      about screen.
  *** We need someone to volunteer to assist here, or possibly to
      take over the task of organizing the contest.
  *** We need someone to meanwhile rev the current about screen
      number to 0.92, in case the contest can't be done.

The Release Notes look pretty good, but as we near to the

release
      we need to finish reviewing and copyediting, and make sure all
new
      features are adequately described:
  http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92

New snapshot release - I've been procrastinating on this since

I'm
      not sure anyone's actually packaging them, but I'll try and get
      another one out soon.
I'll followup on these items some time next week, so if you can
volunteer for any of the above items by then please do so, else we'll
have to start going with the plan B's one some of them.
Bryce
#   Period           Tasks

√1.  Open development.
                     √ Implement new build system
                     √ Begin switching packaging to use new build
system

Chill.           √ Development focuses on wrapping up
                 √ Post inkscape-0.92-pre0.tar.gz
                 √ Disable features that aren't finished
                 √ Identify 'make distcheck' issues
                 √ Identify remaining writing needed for Release

Notes.
                     √ Identify any release blocker bugs [scislac]
                     √ Recruit Release Wardens for Hard Freeze

Frost.           √ Only production-ready code committed to

Mainline
                       Finalize any major changes to platform
packaging
                       Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck'
                     √ Finalize Release Notes except Known Issues
                       Start an About Screen contest
                     √ Post additional inkscape-0.92-pre*.tar.gz
releases
                       Packagers test creating pkgs of the -pre*
releases

Freeze.          √ Stable Branch is forked from Mainline
                 √ Regular development resumes on Mainline.
                   Only Release Wardens can commit to Stable

Branch
                     √ Cherrypick bug fixes from Mainline to Stable
                     √ Complete any late work under advisement of
Wardens
                       Focus on release-critical bug fixing.
    String Freeze    √ No further string changes allowed on Stable
Branch.
                     √ Translators work on translations.
                     √ Finalize all extensions
                     √ Finalize codebase translations
                       Finalize about screen
                       Finalize Known Issues section of Release Notes
                       Finalize packaging scripts
                       Post additional inkscape-0.92-pre*.tar.gz
releases

Release.           Post inkscape-0.92.tar.gz to website launchpad

project page
                       Post Windows build, MSI or EXE installer to
website
                       Post MacOSX build, dmg installer to website
                       Make Debian build available in stable ppa or
distribution archive
                       Make Fedora build available in stable yum repo
or distribution archive
                       Post official announcements
                       Plan 0.92.1+ release(s), if needed

Open development.

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