https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51555
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Bug ID: 51555
Summary: librsvg seems unmaintained
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: blocker
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: SVG rendering
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Our SVG renderer librsvg seems essentially unmaintained.
The only commits for more than a year now were mainly build fixes and some
minor code optimizations as you can see from GIT log [1]. No render bugs were
fixed since a very long time. A decent amount of patches accumulated in the
GNOME bugtracker [2], but nobody seem to be committing them. I tried to contact
the developers by mail to ask if they could commit some patches but didn't
receive an answer (see [3], which is a thread on GNOMES development mailing
list I posted regarding the issue but didn't produce any really useful input
either).
Since we have a huge amount of librsvg bugs downstream [4] - some of them quite
nasty - and none of them has the slightest chance of getting solved without
librsvg development continuing - I hereby ask to find a solution for this
problem. Since this actually blocks many bugs, I also adjusted the priority
accordingly since I think this problem needs to be addressed as quickly as
possible. I could think of three options right now (but maybe someone else has
other ideas):
1) Get bug 38010 fixed (Re-evaluate librsvg as SVG renderer on Wikimedia wikis)
2) Recruit a WMF employee or a volunteer with commit rights to GNOME Git who
maintains librsvg for us
3) Establish contact to the current maintainers (and hope they'll have some
spare time to donate for the good of Wikipedia).
[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/log/
[2]
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=patchreport.html&product=librsvg&patch-status=none
[3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-April/msg00313.html
[4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=SVG rendering
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