Inkscape project struggling with lack of (active) contributors [video]

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I know that many folks on here are fans of inkscape, I certainly am. So I thought y'all should know that Martin (crowd-funded dev) is struggling to even get available project funds spent, simply because there's nobody to do basic due-diligence on who to hire.

To be clear, neither Martin nor I are pointing the finger at existing contributors; they're all volunteers after all. But the situation does need thinking about. In my mind, inkscape is to vector graphics what blender is to 3D (albeit way behind on the funding and feature parity curve).

> because there's nobody to do basic due-diligence on who to hire.

Do you have a sense of who SHOULD take the responsibility for doing that?

Personally I'm not even a contributor, so I certainly don't get to decide that. Martin, who actually did get a vote through that the project wants to hire contractors for certain specified bugs, says that any one individual from the contributors could do so. So someone who's able to assess technical qualifications of an applicant, based on the fact that they understand the codebase themselves and thus know what's needed. Makes sense to me.

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