Published 22nd May, 2018
This weekend, Krita developers and artists from all around the world came to the sleepy provincial town of Deventer to buy cheese — er, I mean, to discuss all things Krita related and do some good, hard work! After all, the best cheese shop in the Netherlands is located in Deventer. As are the Krita Foundation headquarters! We started on Thursday, and today the last people are leaving.
Events like these are very important: bringing people together, not just for serious discussions and hacking, but for lunch and dinner and rambling walks makes interaction much easier when we’ve gone back to our IRC channel, #krita. We didn’t have a big sprint in 2017, the last big sprint was in 2016.
So… What did we do? We first had a long meeting where we discussed the following topics:
We also discussed the resource management fixing plan, worked really hard on making the OpenGL canvas work even smoother, especially on macOS, where it currently isn’t that smooth, added ffmpeg to the Windows installer, fixed translation issues, improved autosave reliability, fixed animation related bugs and implemented support for a cross-channel curves filter for color grading. And at the same time, people who weren’t present worked on improving OpenEXR file loading (it’s multi-threaded now, among other things), fixed issues with the color picker and made that code simpler and added even more improvements to the animation timeline!
And that’s not all, because Wolthera, Timothee and Raghukamath also finished porting our manual to Sphinx, so we can generate off-line documentation and support translations of the manual. The manual is over 1000 pages long!
There were three people who hadn’t attended a sprint before, artist Raghukamath, ace windows developer Alwin Wong and Valeriy Malov, the maintainer of the KDE Plasma desktop tablet settings utility, who improved support for cintiq-like devices during the weekend.
And of course, there was time for walks, buying cheese, having lunch at our regular place, De Rode Kater, and on Sunday the sun even started shining! And now back to coding!
The 2018 Krita sprint was sponsored by KDE e.V. (travel) and the Krita Foundation (accommodation and food).
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