There are a lot of patches in the patch tracker right now. Some have been in there quite a long time. We really ought to try to include or resolve as many of these for 0.45 as we can. And we should include them now rather than later, to ensure there's plenty of time to test them and work out any bugs.
Please take a look through these and indicate if you have concerns for any of them that should be addressed before we include them. I've indicated below which seem ready for inclusion and which need further testing or work first. I think it'd be a good goal to reduce the number of open patches to less than half a dozen, for the 0.45 release.
1567964 "Unknown error for pclose" when using effects fintatartaruga Assigned to: acspike Simple bugfix. Looks fine to me, although I'm curious why it is checking the return code to be >= 0 rather than == 0.
1539297 Export of clip-paths to Ps/Pdf ulferikson Assigned to: bulia It sounds like this one is probably good to go; Ulf is asking if someone could review it beforehand, so bulia or mental, if you could take a peek and give a yea or nay, that'd help.
1536990 [STABLE] Pdf fixes ulferikson Assigned to: mental Collection of bug fixes. Sound very much worth including. Mental, do you see any issues with incorporating this one?
1535878 palette converters (.acf and .bcf to .gpl) nitrofurano Assigned to: acspike Sounds like these converters should be wrapped up as extensions and included.
1535875 .ai example tests for import nitrofurano Assigned to: kidproto These tests would be well worth inclusion, although I'm not certain where they would fit into the codebase. Should they be set up to run with make check, or should they be collected into a standalone testsuite? In either case I think this is of moderate importance, so if it waits until post-release that could be okay.
1533789 ill2svg.pl replacement in python nitrofurano Assigned to: bulia Sounds like the python replacement has some problems, so this patch may need to wait until a future release.
1521963 fix for build problems with autoconf 2.60 sk1p Assigned to: bulia Sounds like this needs a bit more work before it can be committed, but would be a good one to get in for this release. Getting Inkscape to be happy with many different versions of autoconf will make life easier for a lot of folks.
1519675 export to pdf via cairo-pdf from miklos theadib Assigned to: miklosh If this isn't applied already, we should get this in ASAP. We're planning to advertise cairo pdf export, so it's very important we make sure all of miklosh's work is incorporated for 0.45.
1517872 OSX: script for building universal dependencies dhimelright Assigned to: mjwybrow I'm not sure if this is still needed for use on OSX, but if so let's get it reviewed and applied.
1511066 Pref to enable or disable extended input. zeimusu Assigned to: kidproto No patch was attached; we'll be closing it unless a patch gets attached.
1495826 pstoedit and svg with latex render extension dniepper Fixes a compatibility issue with pstoedit; probably fine to include.
1493939 Easter Egg Tutorial skarg Assigned to: scislac The author was asked to convert it to docbook format, but we haven't heard back from him. Still, I think it would be worthwhile to include, so if someone has a chance, please work on converting this to the proper format for inclusion. Even if that can't be done, it'd be nice to have this included in the share directory or something.
1483543 inkview mouse navigation mimooh Assigned to: kidproto This one is an incomplete functionality; the submitter was having trouble figuring out how to get mouse events to be seen by SPView. I don't think this patch is ready for incorporation, but someone with gtk / SPView knowledge should share a few tips to the author, as this could be a very handy feature for inkview users in the future.
1475143 EMF input/output (Windows only) ulferikson Assigned to: bryce Even though this is windows-only, I think it'd be fine to incorporate this, as long as it can be made to compile properly on Linux. EMF is mainly of interest to Windows users anyway.
1466048 Inkscape Buttons johncoswell Assigned to: bryce These are buttons for the website. Rejon or I can take care of adding them to the site.
1463483 Inkscape icons for SVG files boldewyn The icons are fine and probably can be accepted. Packagers will need to look into getting these installed for the respective filetypes, but that's a separate issue from this patch.
1387386 add Tru64/osf1 isNaN/isFinite definitions enchanter Sounds similar to the IRIX patch
1382904 Small patch for mkfiles.pl atwupack Applied by rejon. Thanks!
1379041 patch for SGI IRIX build Simple 3-line patch; I don't know if anyone has access to an IRIX system, but if this makes Inkscape compileable there, it's worth getting applied. It's almost a year old so we really ought to either include it or close it.
1219308 [EPS export] Unicode print - type 1 font embedding Looks good to me if we don't already have this functionality. The patch is over a year old and needs resolution.
Bryce