Inkscape Status July 3, 2005
Oops, a couple days late on the stats this time...
Project Status - Friday, July 1, 2005
Attention is focusing heavily on bug fixing now. We're over the hump, and the release is within sight (probably a week or two). Many of the remaining bugs are Windows-specific, so we need some more developers and testers on that platform to grind those out.
The About screen contest has closed and is in voting phase; if you've not already, please go check out the really cool screens that have been submitted, and vote on your two favorites:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1227185&gr...
Statistics May 15 Jun 1 Jun 15 Jul 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: * 38 33 35 Total SF Page Views * 1,935,964 3,679,803 3,797,037 Total SF Downloads * 254,647 270,500 283,789 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 18,691 19,149 19,482 19,809 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 181 183 186 189 Lines of Code in src/: 373,651 374,180 375,836 376,319 Code lines 259,984 260,236 261,201 261,600 Comment line 67,053 67,136 67,657 67,724 Blank 53,244 53,443 53,632 53,651 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 27,790 27,792 27,792 Lines of content in website: 39,865 42,490 42,610 42,700 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 27,052 26,729 27,712 28,525 Bugs open/total: 208/1196 215/1223 199/1271 196/1312 Features open/total: 442/ 712 453/ 728 466/746 471/ 767 Patches open/total: 11/ 221 11/ 230 18/247 10/ 268 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 11,897 12,040 12,181 12,372 Inkscape-devel membership: 173 179 180 188 Inkscape-announce membership: 197 202 207 217 Inkscape-user membership: 242 248 257 258 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.0 47.8 48.3 48.6
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On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
The About screen contest has closed and is in voting phase; if you've not already, please go check out the really cool screens that have been submitted, and vote on your two favorites:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1227185&gr...
The above link is for the "Layer Add Then Move Crash" bug report. The link to vote on the about screen submissions is:
http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/5828886/
Cheers, Michael
Wow, there are some very nice entries! I don't have a DA account so I can't comment there, so I'll list my favorites here:
33 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19706284/ 30 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19683871/
Both are fun, stylish, and well done (though both may still be improved by some tweaking). I'm having hard time trying to choose among these two. Maybe the "Soviet" one is a bit more powerful from design viewpoint, and probably also smaller by the filesize (the complex paths in the "ad" look like they weigh a lot). Whichever we choose, this is the kind of About that people will be talking about and showing to each other - exactly what we need for this release :)
38 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19938100/ 8 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19286311/
These two are nice as a backup, if the previous two are not chosen. They are much lighter and more traditional, but each of them still has a powerful and well implemented concept.
So, it's 4 overall, not 2, but I hope it's ok :)
By the way, next time we need to do something to filter out the too similar entries. I don't think we need to limit the number of submissions per person. Instead, what about the rule: "You can submit as many as you want, so long as they are all essentially different."
What a great contest since it is all about the graphics - another reason Inkscape is the best open source project going. Way to go contestants!
Maybe some of the close runners up (or maybe all less the dupes) can be added to the screenshots gallery for their effort. I think it is great to prominently show all the developer names as some appreciation and recognition for all the hard work. I also think it is good to keep the overflowing black ink well graphic since that has been the recurring, recognizable graphic representing the project (the branding in MBA-speak).
btw my favorite screenshot has always been the martian guy (guess I have watched too many X-Files epsisodes but the color is brilliant) but since he does not appear in any of the choices, I vote for
1) #1 (great colors) 2) #27 (simple but keeping with the theme)
John
bulia byak wrote:
Wow, there are some very nice entries! I don't have a DA account so I can't comment there, so I'll list my favorites here:
33 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19706284/ 30 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19683871/
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 07:30:08 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] about contest
I like the theme, admit it Open Source is all about Communism :P
Vector mightier than Bitmap, not often you see something in shades of brown that looks so pleasant.
Both are fun, stylish, and well done (though both may still be improved by some tweaking). I'm having hard time trying to choose
Looks like a blueprint (but not blue), techincal drawing complete with coffee cup stain.
Fizzy drink.
So, it's 4 overall, not 2, but I hope it's ok :)
I would like to encourage the use of lots of these designs over the next few releases. None of the entries Bulia has chosen make too big a deal over the version number (42, yes there are some entries which make big references to Hitchhikers) and could easily be adapted for use with other releases.
There are so many great entries it might be nice to even make use of them in unstable releases or prereleases (different one ever week!).
Lost of very impressive work, will be difficult to decide on a winner.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Hmm, basically my top four choices are the same as bulia's.
These would be my first and second choices, respectively:
30 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19683871/ ("ad")
38 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19938100/ ("blueprint")
I'm not overly concerned about the weight of the ad one, though I'll need to have a look at the original SVG. I think there would be room for invisible optimization if the artist hadn't already performed it.
I do think the Soviet one is visually powerful, but it doesn't fit the format of the dialog well. Also, IMO, Soviet imagery has been overused in Free Software circles, and besides which it has unpleasant associations for many.
33 http://www.deviantart.com/view/19706284/ ("Soviet")
The version with the brick wall works better compositionally, even if the brick wall looks a bit unfinished yet:
34 http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/19706201/ ("Soviet flypost")
I like this one too (the glass is ... wow), although that particular green and the choice of the font for the ".42" turns me off quite a bit:
-mental
bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> writes:
Wow, there are some very nice entries!
I'm stunned as well.
I just thought that it might be even cooler if we had some author names in "foreign" script, like Cyrillic and Kanji etc. It would be a matter of collecting them though. Let me start: "Joerg Mueller" is written as "Jörg Müller".
Cheers, Colin
On 7/5/05, Colin Marquardt <colin@...384...> wrote:
I just thought that it might be even cooler if we had some author names in "foreign" script, like Cyrillic and Kanji etc. It would be a matter of collecting them though. Let me start: "Joerg Mueller" is written as "Jörg Müller".
Just submit a patch for AUTHORS in UTF-8. Just yesterday I committed one such diacritics patch :)
bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> writes:
On 7/5/05, Colin Marquardt <colin@...384...> wrote:
I just thought that it might be even cooler if we had some author names in "foreign" script, like Cyrillic and Kanji etc. It would be a matter of collecting them though. Let me start: "Joerg Mueller" is written as "Jörg Müller".
Just submit a patch for AUTHORS in UTF-8. Just yesterday I committed one such diacritics patch :)
Done: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1232986&gro...
Cyrillic, Kanji etc. names should probably have the transliterated/transcribed versions in parentheses.
(New e-mail subject to attract some more authors.)
Cheers, Colin
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:17:13PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> writes:
Wow, there are some very nice entries!
I'm stunned as well.
I just thought that it might be even cooler if we had some author names in "foreign" script, like Cyrillic and Kanji etc. It would be a matter of collecting them though. Let me start: "Joerg Mueller" is written as "J??rg M??ller".
Btw, how is the about screen contest coming along? :-)
Bryce
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