Bryce, are you going to update the roadmap?
Yes. It would be nice if someone could go through and mark all the completed stuff done, and/or delete tasks that are no longer needed.
I"m also hoping to continue working on the test system and continuing the gtkmm work on SPView over the next few months. I"m also playing with Cairo a bit, but only experimentally.
Hi!
I've had an eye on Inkscape for some time now as an interesting project that I might want to get involved in. As I've started to get some more time on my hands lately, I guess now might be a good time to jump in :) I've got about 6 years of C++ inexperience (the last 4 professionally) and I've done quite a bit of UI code (gtkmm in the beginning, but Qt for the past 4 years).
I've got some comments/questions first though, related to the quoted text above:
- An updated roadmap/tasklist would be very nice, looking forward to that.
- I'd be interested in helping out with the Gtkmm work, so I'm curious about the state of affairs in that department. Does the current gtkmm stuff live in a separate branch in CVS? I've done some gtkmm/libsigc++ code in the past (will have to read up on the API's again :)). I'll read through the Rearchitecture discussion in the Wiki later tonight to try to get a better understanding of where you're headed (are these documents fairly up to date btw?).
- Cairo is something else I'm interested in, but I'm guessing this is a bit further down the road?
- It would be nice to have faster rendering of the documents under windows (I think I read a bug report on this). Is there any interest in profiling and optimising the current code, or is the move to Cairo as a vector drawing backend meant to take care of this so that it would just be a waste of time?
In any case, I'll start out with familiarising myself with the current codebase first. If any of you current developers have any small/minor tasks I could get my feet wet in that would be great (speaking of which: is the InkscapeJanitors page in the Wiki still valid?)
Cheers, -- Tarjei Knapstad