This weekend the Inkscape 0.42 release was branched and tagged, and packages posted. Congrats to everyone that participated in this release!
With CVS now tagged and branched, this means we are past the hard freeze. The codebase is now open for commits.
Regarding CVS access: If you need access, the rule is that you must have two patches accepted. I know a *lot* of people had patches accepted, so there's probably a fair number of you who qualify. If this describes you, please email your SourceForge ID to me or another admin. (Note that you can continue using the patch tracker if you prefer, the CVS access is given for your convenience.)
Our final step to complete the release is to get word out about the release. Rejon is creating and distributing release announcements, but I would also like to strongly encourage others to send out word.
Please help us get word out about Inkscape 0.42. Tell people about the nifty new features it has; show off examples of the cool things you're able to do with it; write articles about it in some of the online news sites; find new mailing lists or websites to send our announcement; demo it at LUG's or other OSS gatherings; help friends or family members install it.
Looking further forward, I think there is a general concensus that we want to get 0.43 out more quickly than 0.42. This is mainly to give the SoC students a chance to participate in an open source project's full release cycle. We're hoping that 0.43 can be done on the order of a month or two.
Bryce
Bryce Harrington wrote:
Our final step to complete the release is to get word out about the release. Rejon is creating and distributing release announcements, but I would also like to strongly encourage others to send out word.
I would recommend sending the releaseinformation to newstips@...894... If they bring it in the news you can be sure that word spreads out quickly, at least in the german-speaking (it-)world.
Please help us get word out about Inkscape 0.42. Tell people about the nifty new features it has; show off examples of the cool things you're able to do with it;
Is there somewhere a summary of whats new in 0.42?
stefan
On 7/26/05, Stefan Heinsen <stefan.heinsen@...26...> wrote:
I would recommend sending the releaseinformation to newstips@...894...
Jon, will you do it?
Is there somewhere a summary of whats new in 0.42?
Sure!
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes042, section "In Brief"
as well as the release announcements, soon to be up at
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AnnouncingReleases
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:01 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 7/26/05, Stefan Heinsen <stefan.heinsen@...26...> wrote:
I would recommend sending the releaseinformation to newstips@...894...
Jon, will you do it?
Hell yeah! And, adding to the list of all lists of where to send...If you have more, then please directly add them here:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AnnouncingReleases
Jon
Is there somewhere a summary of whats new in 0.42?
Sure!
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes042, section "In Brief"
as well as the release announcements, soon to be up at
Jon Phillips wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:01 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 7/26/05, Stefan Heinsen <stefan.heinsen@...26...> wrote:
I would recommend sending the releaseinformation to newstips@...894...
Jon, will you do it?
Hell yeah!
Maybe pointing out that OSX is supported would help to bring it into the news.
And, adding to the list of all lists of where to send...If you have more, then please directly add them here:
the register is another candidate. http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/about/contact/ Hmmm, what email to use for that?
Since its available for OSX now maybe an entry in versiontracker would help (http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/). Lots of macusers search there for software.
A posting at slashdot would help also i think. ;)
stefan
This looks like a cool and powerful tool for type. It is open source. It works with Linux, Mac and Win. Is it relevant to Inkscape?
http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
Erik
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:34:11PM +1000, Erik wrote:
This looks like a cool and powerful tool for type. It is open source. It works with Linux, Mac and Win. Is it relevant to Inkscape?
http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
Erik
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the link. This looks to be a Flash interface for improving typography of HTML by using the Flash engine. Cool idea, but fairly orthogonal to what we're doing. However, someone might find it interesting to study, it looks like kind of a fresh idea...
One idea this gives is some sort of tool to do SVG layout based on an HTML page... Be a cool idea, but probably be pretty challenging, esp. if CSS is involved...
Bryce
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:34:11PM +1000, Erik wrote:
This looks like a cool and powerful tool for type. It is open source. It works with Linux, Mac and Win. Is it relevant to Inkscape?
http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/
Erik
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the link. This looks to be a Flash interface for improving typography of HTML by using the Flash engine. Cool idea, but fairly orthogonal to what we're doing. However, someone might find it interesting to study, it looks like kind of a fresh idea...
One idea this gives is some sort of tool to do SVG layout based on an HTML page... Be a cool idea, but probably be pretty challenging, esp. if CSS is involved...
For my Master's thesis, way back in 1991 (eek!), I put together a 3D-text object package. First, I took Bitstream outline data and extruded it into polyhedra. These worked in the 3D environment built by the Brown University Graphics Group. I had read the five volumes of Knuth's Computers & Typesetting, so I knew that I didn't want to build my own text layout engine too. Instead, I hacked dvips to generate output in the format that I needed, generated appropriate font metric data, and wrote some LaTeX macros. Voila, high-quality typography with a fraction of the effort.
Probably not the right way to go now, though.
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