Hi,

The Hackfest was a great success. We got about 70 patches in to the code base. Highlights include fixing the GTK3 flickering bug and getting CMake to work on Windows.

While most of our time was spent on hacking, we did take some time to discuss various issues. Here is a summary of those discussions.

Tav

Hackfest 2016 Discussions Summary  ================================

Infrastructure: --------------

Git/CI:

Consensus is that moving to git soon is a good idea. Benefits:

1. More familiar to outside developers.     2. Bazaar not being actively developed.     3. Easy to separate out libraries as submodules.

Krzysztof has prepared a cheat-sheet     http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Git

Libraries that can be turned in to submodules:     http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Embedded_libraries

lib2geom can be made into a submodule first, removing     duplicate code. Krzysztof will provide documentation     on how to make sublibraries.

We recommend moving to GitHub for CI integration.

CI (Continuous integration)

Consensus is to go with GitHub. This is the most     maintainable option with our limited developer resources.

Mailing Lists

Consensus is to move to a server at OSUOL after server with     Mailman3 is available. Mailman3 is a significant improvement over     Mailman2. Martin has volunteered that Inkscape is willing to     install Mailman3 for OSUOL. (OSUOL has said that it is a low     priority project for them and it could be one and a half years     before they get to it.)

Code ----

C++11

Consensus is to require C++11 after 0.92 released. Developers     will be able to use C++11 features.

GTK3

GTK3 offers significant improvements in support for OSX     and Windows.

Consensus is to switch default compilation to GTK3 after 0.92 to     get more eyes looking at the problems. Most, if not all, dialogs     will need to be tweaked. Then remove GTK2 after the 0.93 release     (we have 700 #ifdef's to switch between the two builds).

CMake

The CMake build system is getting very close to being ready. We     can now compile and link Inkscape on Windows using CMake. A lot of     work was done at the hackfest (and at LGM). Having a good CMake     build is the only hard requirement for 0.92.

Roadmap -------

Krzysztof has volunteered to update the roadmap with the things we   discussed during the hackfest (CMake, C++11, GTK3, etc.).

Community ---------

Fund-raising

We discussed various options such as using patreon.com,      snowdrift.coop, flattr.com. CR will do a detailed investigation      of the options.

Paid Development

We are basically waiting on the website before we can start      using our paid development model.