Hey devs,

Sorry for the delay getting these notes out, hectic week of waking up early to attend the summit live feed video. Big thanks to the Renesse folks for keeping that live for the summit for Me, Jonathan and Rene.

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Adam, Mikekov, Tav, Rafael, Martin, Rene, Ben, Ishaan, Frederico Mana Quintero Next Event: May 15th 2024

Team "Renesse" at the Inkscape hosted summit in France: very busy with lots of things :) Some of them being: - Improving the UX of asking users to donate in Inkscape application and website - Discussing a possible hover based workflow for fill and stroke - Possible Fill and Stroke dialog simplification - PDF Text Import Improvements - SPMarker refactoring

​Rene: worked on fixing Windows CI for some breaking changes introduced by Gitlab

Ben: introduced themselves and asked for suggestions on programming for Inkscape, various useful suggestions offered.

Martin: asked for review of his color work. Is working on bug accelerator program. For the bug accelerator program, the quality of the prioritisation of the issues is concerning and we may need to hire a triage specialist for future programs to get better use out of our programmers. We updated the extensions in 1.4.x to the latest versions during the meeting.

Ishaan: The fix custom user css for handles is ready for review. Asked for a review of Styling hierarchy in "Selection improvements"

Frederico was invited to talk about the work he's doing on librsvg rendering. https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/librsvg/devel-docs/render_tree.html some of the same issues apply to inkscape's renderer with cairo. Frederico was shown our renderer stack in case there's things to learn from the way with do bounding box calculations.

See you all next time!

Best Regards, Martin Owens