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"The next release" page: Update required
by Maren Hachmann 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi everyone, I only just noticed that Bryce had appended a new overview of the release process to his email to the dev mailing list about looking for volunteers, and that it looks quite different from the list we have on the website. Would anyone have the time to update the English page (https://inkscape.org/en/develop/next-release/) and tell translators about the change? This is Bryce's new list (I think we can leave 6. out, and don't need to specifically have the sub-item 'string freeze'): """""""""" # Period Tasks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- √1. Open development. √ Implement new build system √ Begin switching packaging to use new build system 2. Chill. √ Development focuses on wrapping up √ Post inkscape-0.92-pre0.tar.gz √ Disable features that aren't finished √ Identify 'make distcheck' issues √ Identify remaining writing needed for Release Notes. √ Identify any release blocker bugs [scislac] √ Recruit Release Wardens for Hard Freeze 3. Frost. √ Only production-ready code committed to Mainline Finalize any major changes to platform packaging Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' √ Finalize Release Notes except Known Issues Start an About Screen contest √ Post additional inkscape-0.92-pre*.tar.gz releases Packagers test creating pkgs of the -pre* releases 4. Freeze. √ Stable Branch is forked from Mainline √ Regular development resumes on Mainline. Only Release Wardens can commit to Stable Branch √ Cherrypick bug fixes from Mainline to Stable √ Complete any late work under advisement of Wardens Focus on release-critical bug fixing. String Freeze √ No further string changes allowed on Stable Branch. √ Translators work on translations. √ Finalize all extensions √ Finalize codebase translations Finalize about screen Finalize Known Issues section of Release Notes Finalize packaging scripts Post additional inkscape-0.92-pre*.tar.gz releases 5. Release. Post inkscape-0.92.tar.gz to website launchpad project page Post Windows build, MSI or EXE installer to website Post MacOSX build, dmg installer to website Make Debian build available in stable ppa or distribution archive Make Fedora build available in stable yum repo or distribution archive Post official announcements Plan 0.92.1+ release(s), if needed 6. Open development. """"""""""" If nobody else does, I can do it Tuesday night (UTC). Regards, Maren

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how about some marketing and outreach?
by Brynn 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hi Friends, I've recently been contacted by a long time Inkscape user and former active moderator on InkscapeForum.com. (Technically she still is a moderator, but not active for some years.) And I think she also used to help with bug management and testing. And many of you may recognize her as the co-author of PacktPublishing's "Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook". Mihaela, aka prkos, is ready to become reinvested in the project, after having drifted away to work on other things for awhile. She has some good ideas for outreach and bringing in more diversity, and I think some ideas related to marketing, which she will have to explain, because I don't understand that kind of thing. I don't know if she wants to help with bug management again, as before, but maybe after she catches up to the version 0.92 era. And she said she wouldn't be opposed to working on a sequel to the Packt project. Ooohh! Mihaela, I forgot to mention this privately. Recently within the project, there has been some drive to create an open manual, which would be editable by the community. And we also want to make it more of a step by step manual, and more focussed to beginners. And this is as opposed to our current manual, which is copyrighted (can only be edited by the author), presently out of date, and a little more theoretical, and helpful for advanced users. It's a great manual, which has served the project well. But there have been a lot of complaints from beginners about a lack of documentation at their level. So we don't want to get rid of Tav's manual, but just have another manual available. The current state of those discussions is to use a project which was started by a French team (aaii, why can't I remember to save that link?!). It's another FLOSS manual. We're waiting for it to be translated to English. And once it is, we hope to be able to use it as a base to build the new open manual from. Maybe you might like to help with that? Also, some of her ideas will help us with the forum project too! And I'll be letting the committee know about that privately. So, welcome back Mihaela! As you remember the developers' mantra - code first, discuss later - please feel free to jump back in with both feet :-) All best, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] Tutorial 4 done
by Brynn 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi Roy, I apologize that I haven't replied to your messages about your tutorials, before now. I did bookmark your tutorials, and have it on my to-do list, to read them. I keep a kind of centralized list of links to all the best Inkscape tutorials that I know about, on my website, Inkscape Community (http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php). Roughly twice yearly I update the page, adding any new tutorials I find, and removing ones that have gone missing. So once I have a chance to read yours, I'll add them on. Eventually I hope to contact all the authors, and suggest that they could upload their tutorials to the gallery on the Inkscape website, using the Tutorial category. But that will probably be some months away, since I have some other projects working right now. Anyway, you would be more than welcome to register on the website (if you haven't already) and either post your tutorials there, or make a link to them. Unfortunately, the way this website feature is made, there is no way to have working links in the tutorials, because the tutorials have to be in the form of a raster image. They *could* be SVG (except that there's a slight display problem, if you view with IE, which is a problem with IE, as far as I understand). There has been some talk of having tutorials in the form of html, in addition to those in the form of images, but anything more than the idea is not certain at this time. Unfortunately in projects like Inkscape, just like in life, there are occasionally miscommunications, or misunderstandings, or even personality conflicts. Sometimes people simply lose their patience. All of these things are part of being human :-) In any case both of the parties involved have taken the appropriate action, by notifying the board, and ceasing communication until the problem can be mediated (assuming they both desire for it to be mediated). Hopefully it will just be a bump in the road for them, and they can work things out, and continue to contribute to the Inkscape project. :-) (I think the best thing we can do, is to give them the space to work it out, while we continue with our own projects.) Well anyway, I'm looking forward to reading your tutorials. I had a quick glance, but they deserve more time. Thanks for providing them for the community! All best, brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Sylvain Chiron" <chironsylvain@...102...> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 9:51 AM To: <bandura1@...114...> Cc: "Brynn" <brynn@...78...> Subject: Re: Tutorial 4 done > Hi Roy, > Le 05/09/2016 à 17:09, bandura1@...114... a écrit : >> I just want to let you know that >> Tutorial 4 in my series of tutorials is up on Github. Copyright is put >> on, W3C Validator is happy, and so am I. > > Yes, I saw your message to inkscape-docs. It's nice to see that you have > fun with the program and are eager to provide some resource in return. > >> I'll be taking a break from >> writing for a couple of weeks before I start again. > > Well, I'm not personally interested in your tutorials (unless I want to > improve with Inkscape myself, but I don't have such needs currently). If > you want them to be used by the community, I suggest you talk with some > ‘community managers’ of the project, e.g. Brynn (here cc'ed) as she owns > inkscapecommunity.com and interacts with many people around the project. > Currently, my role within the project is to translate into French what > has to be translated, and to improve what I can, remove glitches, make > documentation better — I'm not in contact with many people in the > project (actually, I often enjoy loneliness — ;) —). > Maybe Brynn will say you should open a thread in her forum to lead > people to it and get feedback. > >> I'm dismayed to learn >> about the bump in the road with Ugajin. I guess accidents happen. I >> hope >> things can be fixed. > > Yes… It seems that this guy wrote the page without much help, and didn't > like the way the webmaster talked to him after that. I don't have more > information; since his message, I've wondered what I should do! I didn't > get any explanation from Martin or anybody. > I hope we'll benefit of this ‘social’ experience. I mainly talk with > Maren and Martin, I already had my opinion about the too-many-thanks I > felt from the first and the kind of ‘unshaved hacker’ Martin could be. > My behavior within the community is closer than Maren's one, I think. > > Regards, > -- > Sylvain

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Chapter 4 in the Inkscape Tutorial is done
by unknown＠example.com 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi Everybody, I have just finished putting Chapter 4 of my tutorial together. It is now online at roy-torley.github.io Copyright notice is in place, W3C validation is good, enjoy in good health. Best wishes to all, Roy Torley

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full size image/outside link
by Brynn 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Hi Friends, I was just looking at a new exension that's been uploaded to the website: https://inkscape.org/en/~pacogarcia/%E2%98%85inkscape-to-povray-exporter How did he make the outside link, when you click on the image? All the other extensions that I've looked at, when you click on the image, either you're offered the file (usually zip file) to be downloaded or you see the full size image. I mean, I realize that the link goes to his site, where the file can be downloaded. I just can't figure out how he made that link. Nothing urgent. Just curious :-) Thanks, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Bug 1258842] Re: No page for vectors vs. Bitmaps
by ugajin 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

@Martin Owens https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1258842 You are not as disappointed as I am with you. Irregular is right. How dare you speak to me this way. You were clearly told, before you went ahead and made the page live, that I did not have a working picture plugin. I am not responsible if you do not provide the tools needed to upload image files. It was and/or ought to have been clear to anyone with eyes to see, that the test page relied on external links, and you were directed to this fact. Further, I did not ask you to download files from my web-site. In fact you downloaded the said files without asking, and without my consent. Is this how you generally behave, and treat artists? If so, shame on you, and shame on you for doing it to me. I provided links to those resources only, and not the resources themselves, Inkscape have no claim on them, or right to host those image files. Please remove them, and please refer this matter to the Board. It seems to me, it was a very small thing indeed, especially in the circumstances to ask that someone replace dirty files with clean ones, not least because I did not have the tools, and/or permissions to replace them at that time. We were so close to getting the thing right, and your hostile reaction is totally innapropriate. I have put a lot of hard work into this project, and I have had few thanks for doing so. As a reward for my effort, you have taken artwork which does not belong to you, and in addition you removed my editor priviledges. I cannot trust, or work with you again. Whatever your problem is, it should be with yourself with who you are disappointed, and to be treated and spoken too, by you in this way, is wholly unacceptable. Thanks to you, I have deleted, the guides, and viewBox extension files from my resources directory. I am more dissapointed than you can possiblt know, or imagine, and you can of course file your own bug report. I will not be the assignee for the 'No page for vectors vs. Bitmaps' bug, thank you. -u ---- On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:23:22 +0000 Martin Owens <doctormo@...2...> wrote ---- @ugajin - The files you provided on the page were published as live. I'm disappointed that you have come back to me now, after the publish time, to tell me the graphics were not the final versions. This is highly irregular and I will not change the files at this time. When we come back to this page in the future, we can update the graphics. But I have committed the page in it's current state and with that I complete this long bug report as Fixed Released. Please open another bug report to update the graphics. Maren if you need to track the svg picture plugin issue, or a bug report to make our own plugin, please go ahead. ** Changed in: inkscape-web Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: inkscape-web Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: inkscape-web Assignee: (unassigned) => rant (ugajin) -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1258842 Title: No page for vectors vs. Bitmaps Status in Inkscape-website: Fix Released Bug description: This page here: http://quasdar.deviantart.com/art/Bitmaps-vs-Vectors-323184682 Looks like the kind of information we may want on the website. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1258842/+subscriptions

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Shield data left
by Sylvain Chiron 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Re, Shield data has gone; I provided it again, using my local instance data, in the English page, so that most users don't notice the bug — ;). Translated shields are still blank: https://inkscape.org/de/ https://inkscape.org/fr/ https://inkscape.org/es/ https://inkscape.org/pt/ https://inkscape.org/pt-br/ https://inkscape.org/ru/ https://inkscape.org/ja/ https://inkscape.org/zh/ https://inkscape.org/ko/ I don't know if the data will be restored automatically (I can provide all the translations except European Portuguese as it was translated too recently), but before it is, I have a question: Duarte, it seems you are the artist who drew /Sunset/, the banner for the ‘Learning Resources’ tab. The credit link to your art (in the bottom left-hand corner) is dead. Can you provide a working one please? -- Sylvain

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-translator] Shield data left out
by Sylvain Chiron 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Le 29/08/2016 à 15:21, Maren Hachmann a écrit : > the only editor yesterday was frigory, and all existing languages have > been 'edited' and published, so I guess there was some kind of accident. Oh, yeah, I played with the Page Settings, trying to have identical data on all languages. But I played with the website yesterday after 7 am, time of my last edit, and I'm pretty sure it still worked… Anyway, I'm here to fix. > Unfortunately, the history of the page doesn't go back until your first > edit yesterday, so reverting might not work as expected. I thought reverting's always been a fake feature to make us believe that Django CMS is something serious? See the paragraph just above this section: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite#Edit_an_existing_translation By the way, maybe it should be moved in ‘Known issues’? > Unless Martin does a revert, I think it would be good if you could > reinsert the things that have been lost (yeah, I know, it's a lot of > work... :/ At least, that gives us a chance to also update Duarte's > link...). Yes, and have absolute links starting with / instead of inkscape.org, so that they also work on local instances (trying to be positive). > Would you have the time to do that or would you like some help? I have the time, yes. At first, I thought that the translators could help too, but it's not really a lot of work, I just have to copy the shield from the English page again and update the texts. Thanks, -- Sylvain

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Shield data left out
by Sylvain Chiron 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi, I don't know whether or not I'm responsible (that would be very weird) but it seems that the shield tabs and banners have gone, leaving a blank area on the homepage, both in draft and published versions: https://inkscape.org/en/ Would somebody know why? Martin, are you working on it? -- Sylvain

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bad gateway
by Brynn 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Hi Friends, Just to report 502 Bad Gateway around 4:15 am Mountain Daylight Time. Not resolved with multiple refresh/reloads. I don't have any urgent need, but just reporting it :-) All best, brynn

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