The future of CairoSVG

[grewn0uille]

Hello!

As you may have noticed, there was some activity on the repo. But no release.
Some "the project is no longer maintained by Kozea". But who?

So today is answer-day!

Like it has sometimes been said, a new organization maintains this project: CourtBouillon.

CourtBouillon is composed of @liZe and myself, @grewn0uille.

You can visit our website by starting with this article, and join us on Twitter, Gitter and OpenCollective :)

Have a nice day!

The CourtBouillon Team 🍲

[grewn0uille]

Hello!

As you may have noticed, CairoSVG isn’t a full-of-life project and it hasn’t seen much activity for a year…

For a long time, CairoSVG was used by WeasyPrint.
To render SVG, PNG or PDF, CairoSVG depends on Cairo, which brought many bugs and limitations in WeasyPrint (and CairoSVG).
This led us to remove the Cairo dependency from WeasyPrint, and so to remove the CairoSVG dependency.

Since then, we didn’t do really much on CairoSVG. And, to be honest, we’re not sure about what to do with this project 🤔.

A lot of questions have emerged in our heads.
Can it still be a CourtBouillon project, shall we entrust it to someone else? Do people actually expect new features, or only bug fixes? Maybe people don’t expect anything?

And in fact, we can’t answer these questions all by ourselves because we’re not you, we’re not the people using CairoSVG.

So, to know you, your use of CairoSVG and your expectation about the project, we prepared a (short, don’t worry) survey.

Your answers to this survey will help us a lot to come up to a decision about CairoSVG.

The survey is open until the end of April!

The CourtBouillon Team 🍲

Edit: the survey is now closed. Results will be publish soon!

[grewn0uille]

Hello!

The results of the survey have been published!
You can discover where CairoSVG is going in our latest blog article 📰.

The CourtBouillon Team 🍲