Hey Everyone,

Time for another weekend developer meeting. This week was a three person meeting and we bounced ideas and talked about fun vacations as well as our Inkscape topics which you can see below:

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Martin, René

René is back from vacation and has found a way of enabling dbus for macOS. Will be reaching out to Inkstitch to figure out how it would be useful to them and possibly other extension authors.

Tav got his font code to work but is struggling to get the tests to pass. Has looked at the right to left text bugs for text line lengths. The test issues appear to be magnified by gradient issues. There's a few windows failures which René says there was a few hiccups with the CI but the jobs were restarted.

Martin showed the new rendering engine's testing for Glycin integration and SVG SurfaceFactory work for handling all of Inkscape's various object and document rendering requirements. Tav and Martin talked briefly about the difficulty with rendering tests.

Tav and Martin talk about Gtk's SVG support and if we are going to use icons generated by Gtk or by Inkscape and if we're being consistant.

We review the Bug Accelerator program and the progress. The hiring process and the luck of the draw for getting the right people with the right skills who work well together.

Best Regards, Martin Owens