Hey everyone,

Thanks to everyone that came to today's meeting. A lot of focus on the release and the tasks needed to get us over the line today.

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: René, Martin, Jonathan, Mikekov, Marc, Tav Next

Most exciting thing from René, he has seen the future of macOS CI, because after having talked to someone who is doing this for gstreamer, the tech that allows having the virtualised runners which means you don't need to spend time on build and installation configuration because that's baked into how that would work. The only down side is it requires more hardware resource than we currently have available.

the hardware we currently have from mac stadium is currently the smallest size. Though we do want to move towards this virtualisation.

René is going to meet with Macstatium tomorrow to explain why we need an upgrade to our hardware setup. If that doesn't pan out René will probably make the setup by himself.

René has an open MR which is holding up beta3. We had a look at how important it was to have this fix in time for beta3. We've decided to make a beta3 without the raster image extensions so we can get things tested.

The pencil target for RC target for September 13th.

Jonathan reports his mentoring of the GSoC project for the aidesign file format by Manpreet. The project is pretty much done and has a fantastic release ready code which will be in 1.4.

There was a fraudulent zendesk help site which sent users to a fraudulent website. This was taken down.

Jonathan gave the background to the previous adobe illustrator importer. He believes we understand what went wrong and we think we can continue the work with a known developer who knows how to develop these kinds of extensions. He will make a vote to fund the proposal after this meeting.

Tav talked with pono yesterday about the rate and a base rate of $40 per hour extendable for local conditions. We're looking for 100 hours.

The team held a vote to formally request the funding from the PLC. The vote was 6 in favor, zero against.

Scour is now inside the inkscape project, if no one comes to help it it will be on the GSoC list of available project. It's not written with the new extensions system and has a lot of duplicate code.

Mikekov is working on the popup editing feature for inkscape in the object properties. It's a work in progress. Martin suggests splitting out any refactoring so it's easier to review if there is any.

Martin asked Tav if he could do an assessment on the open bugs for 1.4.

Marc completely rewrote the debian packaging for the PPA, this only works on 24.10 because that is the first version that has all the packages we require for Gtk4. And only for AMD64 as there are some test failures on other platforms.

There are a bunch of extra fixes for the debian packaging for language and extensions including splitting out inkex.

We have a look at fininasing what's needed for 1.4

See you all next time!

Best Regards, Martin Owens