Heya all,

We are in a preliminary feature freeze, or "FEATURE FROST". This means that ONLY work on bugs and the features listed below should be done. If you wish to work on a new feature, please do this on a branch or with the patch tracker.

We're now getting ready to start putting out pre-release packages for testing. -pre0 will be out within a matter of days.

The full feature freeze may come as early as the 15th. If you are doing development work, please plan on getting it wrapped up and ready for release this weekend. We are planning to have a relatively short bug fix period this time, so if your feature is not likely to be ready by the 15th, let's discuss it now so we can determine whether to put the feature on hold, push back the feature freeze, or whatever.

Can you please review the list below, and reply with an update on them? (Especially if you're listed for multiple items.)

Bryce

Current Feature Work

ICC Preview =========== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release.

* Update Release Notes

CMYK support ============ Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release.

* Update Release Notes

ArtLibre named icon and cursor loading ====================================== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release.

* Update Release Notes

Palette editing and per-file color sets ======================================= Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release.

* Update Release Notes

Tablet Bugs =========== MentalGuy is working on this. Says for the release he wants to get these resolved.

Something drops tablet motion events on the floor while the button is held down. This occurs for some tools, but not with others. The bugs are quite annoying but weird. They don't affect all tablet users.

4/29 - Still underway

Brush size adjustment on zoom toggle for calligraphic pen - DONE ========================================================= MentalGuy is working on this and plans to have it to a finished point for the release.

5/1 - Mental reports this has been completed

Layer dialog ============ This is an important feature for the release, and on MentalGuy's todo list. However, work has been stuck getting Inkscape::LayerManager to compile due to a subtle detail with sigc::mem_fun(), and it's uncertain if there is sufficient time to unstick it and finish the feature prior to the release. Additional people's help may be needed here.

[Beyond the memory issue, are there other aspects to the layer dialog that others could help with, such as UI work or coding helper features or whatever? --bh]

* Update Release Notes

4/29 - Still under way

Fit Canvas to Selection - DONE ======================= This is a feature ACSpike has been working on, and plans to complete for the release. The patch is here:

http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/current.diff

ODG Format Support ================== Ishmal is working on this currently. Help is needed from someone who knows inkscape gradients, such as mental or bulia. He needs to know how to read gradient info from an SPGradient object.

DOM Support =========== Ishmal has been working on this. The newest code is all imported and builds. [Is there anything else needing to be done prior to release?]

SIOX Support ============ Ishmal has this over half done. The code is all imported and building, and the selection mechanism is now done. Getting Inkscape and SIOX intercommunication working, but this can be built as a filter to potrace, which simplifies things. The transformation issues reported previously have been sorted out, using a "confidence matrix".

Extensions ========== Ted is focusing on cleaning up extension parameters and felt he'd have this wrapped up by the end of the month. The plan is to have longer text (tool tips) available, and a few more widgets. More spacing in the autogui will be added to make it look nicer.

* Ted reports there is an unverified bug in the ordering of the effects in the menu, to be investigated.

The Extension Editor is further off, and not being planned for this release.

5/1 - Ted reports the feature is not yet working, but feels it shouldn't be a problem to get it fixed in the next couple weeks.

Snapping ======== Ralf is coming up to speed on this issue. Hopefully Carl can also shed light on things. On 4/26 Carl said he hopes to have a look at it over the coming week.

* Need to fix the freeze when dragging multiple selected objects: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&gro...

* Update Release Notes

Rendering Performance Speedup - DONE ============================= Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. The feature is complete and accepted for the release. There is one known issue to address with scrolling, but Andrius feels this can be fixed.

4/30 - Andrius reports this is now done, and no other issues are known.

Screenshots =========== Scislac has taken this task on, and plans to have it done for the release.

Two screenshots are done currently, and one more is in the works. There will be a call for more screenshots on the Deviant Art site.

Tutorials ========= Calligraphy is mostly done, and a few of the other updates to the other tutorials have been drafted but that stuff definitely needs more work. Should be possible to have them done by the end of April.

Man page should be current.

Bulia will update keys.xml shortly.

Note: The sooner these can be finalized, the sooner translators can get going on them.

5/1 - ScislaC says a lot of progress was made over the weekend, but has run into some errors regenerating the svgs & html

Calligraphic interface tweak - DONE ============================ Bulia is working on this change requested by MentalGuy, and feels they are minor and should have no trouble completing for the release.

Windows font handling bugfixes - DONE ============================== Richard (cyreve) has completed these bug fixes and updated the release notes.

* Update ReleaseNotes

Python Extensions on Windows ============================ !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!!

Bulia reports that extensions that rely on PyXML still do not work on Windows. Due to the number of python extensions, this would be a major missing feature for Windows users.

Text/Fonts UI ============= deadchip (aka Milosz Derezynski <internalerror at gmail dot com>) has written a font lister Gtkmm class, to enable re-use of the font list. He is planning to write a font picker dialog, and rewrite the current font picker to use the font _listing_ class. This enables using normal Gtk components (ListStore, etc.) for accessing the font info. He plans to have this work done by May 1st, or May 15th at the latest.

Windows "dialogs on top" Patch for GTK ====================================== !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!!

This is not exactly an Inkscape-specific problem, since the code changes wouldn't be to Inkscape, but it would be nice to have it finally fixed. This 0.44 release effort may be a good vehicle to tie it to, but we won't hold up the release if it doesn't get done. Scislac had contacted the author previously.

* Send a reminder email to the author to find status on this

Undo/Redo Dialog - HOLD ================ Gustav Broberg (broberg at kth dot se) is planning to try to get the changes Mental suggested prior to the Feature Freeze.

We have a patch for this. Also needed is undo annotations.

4/30 - Gustav reports that due to more changes required than expected, this feature will be postponed until the next release.

New File Chooser in Export - DONE ========================== We have a patch for this, but there were some thoughts of embedding it in the export dialog directly. In the spirit of "patch first, discuss later", the best approach may be to stick in the current patch for 0.44, see what folks think, and do the embedding later.

Test Harness ============ Bryce is working on getting 'make test' working in the test harness. He plans to have this working by the feature freeze date.

Additional Release Tasks ======================== The following tasks will need to be done for the release, but are not required to be done prior to the Feature Freeze:

* Identify the list of must-fix bugs. To keep the freeze phase from dragging out, we will need to be very choosy in what we allow to be must-fix bugs.

* Set up a ReleaseChecklist wiki page or similar to keep track of The List.

* Designate 2 release maintainers.

* Keep and update the above list and encourage people to achieve completion of the items.

* Notify translators to complete translation work

* Wiki updates + Update Roadmap + Review/Update FAQ + Update InkscapeFeatures

* PR / marketing efforts + Plan efforts + Draft press release + Finalize press release + Send out press release [rejon] + DeviantArt PR [ScislaC]

* Packaging