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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 03 May '24

03 May '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/285 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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About Screen Contest: Inkscape Contributor Voting
by Kyle R. Conway 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Calling all Inkscape Contributors! It's time for you to cast your votes for the Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest! Round one has elevated 5 artworks into top contention as favorites from the Inkscape community with 855 total ranked votes from 251 voters. As Inkscape Contributors, you are the final panel of judges to vote for their favorites to award the next winner of the About Screen Contest that will be featured in the next release! Voting begins Monday, April 22, 2024 and ends at 11:59 UTC on Monday, April 29, 2024, so be certain to cast your vote soon! How does this work? We're using ranked choice voting, which means you can vote for many artworks. Click the checkbox on any artworks you'd like to vote for from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least. They'll be re-arranged from your top selection to your bottom. Vote for as many or as few of the entries as you'd like! (Each Inkscape Contributor may only vote for each artwork once). Cast your vote here: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… These are the 5 items the community voting elevated for the final round (in alphabetical order): - "Creative Growth“ by Chris Hildenbrand - "Expand Your Creative Universe" by Chris Hildenbrand - "Inkscape's Path-Artist's Blossom" by Inkonic - "Draw your world" by Kess - "Vibe On Creators" by NDIM DONALD Step 1: Make sure that you are an Inkscape Member (see previous message or link below), and if you're not one yet, apply for membership and ask 3 of your team mates or other contributors whom you have worked with to confirm your membership. More info: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ Step 2: Visit https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… and rank the 5 images by clicking on the little circle right below them in order of preference (most liked first). Thanks for all of your work on Inkscape! Kyle

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 21 2024
by pulsar17 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Hi All, Here are the meeting notes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Martin, Adam, Ishaan, Marc, Michèle, Rafael, René, skippr, pbs, Vaibhav # Beta Release Marc asked about when to release a Beta since there's not that many changes. Martin thinks an Alpha might still be useful, especially considering how much refactoring has happened in the meantime. But is unsure. Michèle thinks users will expect there be an Alpha and that if. Multiple betas are possible and considering the lack of critical issues in the bug accelerator milestone indicates that we could jump directly to beta. Martin says we should be ready in case the release has serious issues to pull it. But this is a very unlikely senario. Marc has time this week to put together the Beta and René says he should become available on wednesday. We are not going to do an alpha. (alpha/beta is semantics / communication only) We'll tag the 1.4-beta tonight # Contest Website isn't working so well, we're pointing people to vote. Some contest entries are fantastic, we're not openly sharing who we're voting for for fairness, but it's not a secret. # GSoc To be discussed in another place : gsoc selections and status of eligibility # Other Items [Marc] Minor packaging stuff, MR reviews [Rafael] Some work on PDF export - differences in output with rsvg. Make a progress bar for slow exports ? [René] still ongoing work from last week & update to appimage creation (with go-appimage) [skippr] I worked on some UX features suggested by Adam but they required further discussion among the UX team, so they were marked as drafts for now, other than that I did not get much work done due to my practicals. I have exams till 4th of may I will try to help in issues and testing but it is highly unlikely [ishaan] Fixing fill patterns in selection modes [Philip] spellcheck almost ready, boolean operations ok [Martin] Refactoring color and split out the more agressive UX/signals changes into a future merge request. It's close to being able to be tested. [vaibhav] This week, I spent most of the time working with gradients and meshes. Proposed some minor fixes for the objects dialog, icon preview dialog and an issue related to the node toolbar. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest: Community Voting until April 21!
by Maren Hachmann 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

We've received some excellent entries for the About Screen Contest! Community Voting is open now through April 21 (ends 23:59 UTC)! The topic for this years' contest was "Growth". This first round of voting is the Community Round. Voting will be ranked choice voting, so click the checkbox next to each artwork to vote for as many ― or as few ―artworks as you'd like. Vote from your top choice to your lowest choice. No need to vote for every work, just as many as you'd like to see elevated to the final round of voting. Remember, each voter may only vote once. Voters must be logged into their Inkscape accounts. Cast your vote: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-14/ Thanks so much for your participation! (and in case you're asking yourself "Am I allowed to vote? Am I a part of the community?" - if you're reading this, the answer is YES!)

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 13 2024
by pulsar17 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hi All, Here are the meetingnotes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Tamir, Vaibhav, Mike, Rene, Jonathan, Ishaan Rene: Reactivated Windows CI for master branch. Not satisfied with the artifacts, window drawing in Windows is weird after the switch [no pun intended], might need to look into it. Vaibhav: Working on Bug Fix Accelerator, starting from easy to complex. Ishaan: Working on Selector Tool, Rene suggested to ask questions in the dev chat. Mike: Continuing work on the Symbols dialog. Jonathan: Failed to build master on 22.04, but got it working on Windows. No spot of Google Summer of Docs for Inkscape. Planning to ask about end user applications since most accepted projects are libraries. Generic Discussions: GTK4 Inkscape works for Tamir on Windows, yayy! Some discussion on Windows support since Windows 10 will be EOLed in 2025. Cursor icons are bigger than they should be, and then some discussion on GTK4 cursors and high dpi screens. Rene asked a question about Google Summer of Code students - Since they targetted pre-gtk4 versions of Inkscape for the 2-patch rule, are they able to work on post-gtk4 master. A public announcement might be required to ask them to rebase their work on master. Discussions about Developer role and how to minimize privileges. It might be difficult to disallow just a single person or person(s) from the Approval settings, that setting seems like it is group based. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Inkscape Summit - Rennes May 6th - 8th
by tavmjong＠free.fr 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Hi all, Just a reminder to sign up for the Inkscape Summit to be held just before LGM in Rennes, France. Travel support of up to $2500 offered to current Inkscape community members. Details at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Inkscape_Summit_2024_Rennes Tav

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/284 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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Announcement: The Inkscape 1.4 About Screen contest is upon us!
by Maren Hachmann 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

For each new version of Inkscape, we invite all Inkscape artists, newcomers and seasoned professionals, to submit an artwork for the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen Contest is about more than the About Screen. Contest artwork is also frequently featured in news articles about the release, on the inkscape.org download page, and in other locations. Each and every submission also helps us test the newest version of Inkscape. The topic for this year's contest is "GROWTH". We're excited to see what great art is submitted this year! We're looking forward to your contributions, to helping spread the message about the contest, and helping us select a winner! Learn more here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Your Inkscape Vectors Team

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March Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/283 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Meeting: Feb 25th 2024
by Martin Owens 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Dear Devs, Big thanks to everyone who came to our meeting and all the new faces who came to talk about their work this week with us. Also thanks to everyone who stuck around for 2 HOURS! We got through some deep talk and a bunch of merge requests in our backlog (see below) Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mansi, Marc, MikeKov, pbs, Rafael, Siddhant Agarwal, Tav, Vaibhav Malik, Ishaan Next Meeting: March 4th 2024 = Website DDOS Situation Martin talked about the DDos attack against the website and reported what happened and what things have been put in place to help bring it back. The website is still being attacked today. (two days) = Gtk4 Work PBS builds a Gtk4 app image and we can get the CI to build it. Currently we use an old ubuntu for app image and a newer ubuntu for other builds. We can actually get over this if we use a new tool introduced for building app images. Philip would like to hand this work onto another developer if we can find someone who's interested in the work. Some bugs fixed in the gtk4 branch. There's some bugs which were fixed in gtk4 branch but not merged into master and he's working on finding them and porting them. = Testing PBS reports that since we upgraded to C++20, the 2geom code coverage isn't working any more. It'll need to be fixed or disabled. = Release Schedules We talked a lot about release schedules, if other teams are seeing our plans and are in sync with us. How hard our deadlines are and why we use strctured releases in our project to help keep things moving and keep contributions going out to users etc. Many more details were covered casually. Vaibhav wanted to talk about test coverage and how we can improve our automated testing. He's also been working on some regressions related to toolbars migration and regressions related to context menu selection logic. = Packaging Marc is working on a complete rework of the debian packaging stuff, separating stuff in multiple packages, no more "inkscape-trunk" incompatibilities, no more "separate branch" with deps. = Color Refactoring PBS, Mikekov and Rafael helped reviewing Martin's large color refactoring merge request and work through some of the issues as well as explaining how it's structured. Martin made a video to explain the outline and the other developers were able to review the various issues and how it needs to be improved going forwards. = Other Work PBS wants to finish the command line bitmap tracing branch for 1.4, somebody made a fork of inkscape and replaced the gui with a command line and someone else then tried backporting that back into inkscape to give us command line bitmap tracing. Mikekov has pushed a bunch of small bug fixes. There are so many things that have changed in 1.4 and there's some concerns that the refactoring will cause instability and we may not have the bug fixing resources. Mansi will be wrapping up revamping of filter gallery with one more mr :) (most of them have been fixed). Apart from them diving deep into rendering of selection tool and trying to figure out the cause of the issue - selection tool corner handles off by a small amount Siddhant wanted to ask about livarot functionality and the lib2geom GSoC and wanted to know what work had already been done. = Group Activity: Merge Request Review We work on our merge requests backlog as there is a large number of merge requests (90!) that need to be either merged or closed. We got through 9 of them today. --------------------------- Best Regards, Martin Owens

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