Am 17.09.2018 um 15:20 schrieb C R:
Hey folks. I'm going to do a writeup of the hackfest to accompany and help finish the video content. If each of the hackfest attendees could answer these questions for me, I'll combine all of it into the hackfest summary.
- What did you work on during the Kiel hackfest?
I started off fixing some issues with the Windows build of Inkscape. One of these issues (thanks Max for spotting it initially and bearing with building on Windows for some time 😉) was especially nasty as scrolling / zooming the canvas was not working at all. Eventually it turned out to be an error in GTK+'s win32 GDK back-end (which could successfully be resolved as a consequence along with some additional issues in the new implementation) but as a "byproduct" of investigating this bug I was able to add previously unavailable support for smooth scrolling and zooming of the canvas to Inkscape (i.e. on supported hardware there is now continuous scrolling and zooming without discrete steps). Furthermore I worked on some aspects of the Inkscape CI, including translations and translation statistics, and did some preliminary work on preparing the bundled documentation for the 1.0 release. Like most of us I had some fun with the extensions after day zero of the extension API 1.0 which included adjusting the Scour extension (Optimized SVG output) to be compatible with the new API and writing my first extension test to ensure it stays that way. Thank you Martin for supporting me with it!
- What do you consider the best benefit to being at the Kiel hackfest
this year?
As it was my first hackfest I really enjoyed finally meeting all the people in person with whom I only interacted digitally so far. It was great getting to know everybody! Besides the team-building aspects of the hackfest it's also much more efficient to discuss things in person and to learn from each other when sitting at the same table.
- What were the most fun things or things you most enjoyed about the
hackfest?
I really enjoyed the "small" things like having a picnic in the open together (despite the infamous wasps) or just joking around with each other while catching a break after hours of coding. Another highlight was undoubtedly the trip to the computer museum.
- Did your hackfest activities extend beyond the hackfest?
I was staying an additional day, so I had the opportunity to also join the Kielux meeting. Although I spend most of the day accompanying Chris to the train station and (unsuccessfully) waiting with him for the bridge to do its bridge thingâ„¢ there was some time left to man the Inkscape booth Maren built overnight together with Marc and do some coding. Many things I started during the hackfest will probably take even more time to complete, e.g. finalizing the bundled documentation or figuring out why smooth scrolling on Mac is not only smooth but also blazingly fast (it might be yet another GTK+ back-end error that just waited to be discovered and fixed by the Inkscape team).
- Did the hackfest increase your motivation to work on the Inkscape
project?
It certainly did. Seeing everybody to work towards the same goal - even if approaches and opinions might differ at times - was a huge push to strive forward as a team. (Something that tends to get lost in the impersonal communication through bug trackers and merge requests)
- Anything else you'd like to include. :)
A big thanks to Maren for organizing a wonderful event I'll keep in good memory.
Thanks for your comments. I'll begin posting video content this week, (3-4 videos in total), witht he goal of releasing the hackfest summary first, so the sooner everyone responds to this information, the sooner I can put it together with some accompanying photos into a complete summary.
Thanks for you help, and it was super cool to be able to hang out with all of you. Last week.
-C
I'm looking forward to the video (even if it won't include the bridge 😉) and summary!
Thanks, Patrick