Hackfest2018 Kiel Topics

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Topics for Inkscape Hackfest 2018 in Kiel

• Inkscape 1.0 release:
  • Testing: Establish a testing team. (jnweiger)
  • Bug fixing: 1.0_Release_Bug_Fix_List (Patrick, Mc)
  • Release notes (Maren)
  • Release news/press management (Vectors?)
  • Translations
    • Focus on Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Indonesian (Maren)
    • How to translate extensions? (doctormo)
  • Discuss (and possibly put into place) a web interface (hosted or self-hosted) for Inkscape-related translations. (Weblate?) (Maren, doctormo)
  • Plan. Find release manager, Mc volunteers! (Mc)
• Improving developer documentation. (Patrick)
  • Test the build instructions (in recent mails people reported some problems)
    • CompilingMacOsX (Thomas)
    • Mac Packaging - Find volunteer, signing (Inkscape can pay for certificate).
  • Bugfix reporting process (Mc, Patrick)
    • Move to GitLab.
    • Two trackers? One for users, one for developers.
    • Automatically close bugs... with email to submitter to reopen.
    • Establish a bug team.
    • Web interface.
    • List of experts.
  • extensions API documentation, python, c++, gitlab... (jnweiger)
• Improving user documentation.
  • Prepare 1.0 documentation (Patrick)
• Improving the extension API, especially for physical output (lasercutting, vinyl plotting, ...) (doctormo, Max, jnweiger)
  • Hatching (Tav)
  • Improve/merge the lists of extensions
• Extension Manager, maybe the gimp way?(jnweiger, max, doctormo)
  • extensions packaging (jnweiger, Patrick)
  • visibility, overview of many lists -> https://inkscape.org/de/gallery/=extension/
  • announce extensions, locations, rss feed
• Licensing GPL 2 -> GPL 3 (Tav)
• File menu Files: Output (Tav)
• SVG 2 strategy (Tav)
• Recruiting of new developers
• improve first-user experience (Max, )
• invert y-axis
  • work on guides (Thomas)
  • work on 3D boxes (Thomas)
  • testing
• Package dependencies (Mc ?)
• ...