> Maybe you could put a link to gimpusers.com on the front page. Why?
- because it will not hurt - because it's somewhat logic (why not keeping a link to a community of users ?) 2012/3/12 Alexandre Prokoudine <[email protected]> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:17 PM, grafxuser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > currently I see the gimp.org news page updated round about one time per > > month. > > > > Why not tell the readers more often about GIMP's progress? Look at > > digikam.org. Nearly every week there comes a message, showing what's > > possible with Digikam and that the project is still alive. > > More regular news will come when we have a proper news archival system. > > > To show this progress for GIMP, you could publish > > - which features are done, > > None in weeks. > > > - which (severe or important) bugs where fixed, > > Few > > > - who provided the most or best bugreports or bugfixes, > > Information noise > > > - which bug reports need more info (bugs in state NEEDINFO) > > Information noise > > > - which help is currently needed most (with specific tasks), > > Text duplication > > > - what are interesting or new plug-ins in the plug-in-registry, > > Few, but doable > > > - a feature roadmap, > > Text duplication > > > - a link to an interesting article on your website > > A what? :) > > > Besides this will save you from answering the same questions in the > mailing > > list or chat room again and again instead of forcing development. > > No, it won't > > > Secondly > > you constantly update your release notes instead of having to do this big > > job before the next release and telling just a bit more, that there were > > tons of bugs fixed for a long time. > > I didn't understand that one, sorry. > > > Of course I know your website and your information are public. But who > > really wants to dive deeply in a web page, register at a data kraken+, > read > > lots of mailing list postings, forums, Bugzilla reports, Git commits > etc., > > if he only wants to know _quickly_, if the project is still alive and > what > > he can do for the project? > > He only have to read the front page. It's that simple. > > > IMHO, the idea to use G**+ is not too good. > > Ca. 5K users who currently read it don't share your view. > > > I hope you haven't planned to move there. > > I fail to understand that one as well. How can we possibly move the > whole website there? > > > On the one hand it's good to regularly post news. But on the > > other hand do people, who like to support you, not necessarily like to > > register at G**+. > > They don't have to. > > > The main entrance to GIMP information should be gimp.org, > > Which it still is. > > > like one would expect from a non-commercial project called GIMP. For > quick > > information rather use the wiki or a public forum at gimp.org, please. > > *sigh* > > We kinda already do. No, really. We have a wiki. We maintain it. > There's a link to it. It gets visits/ > > > can also put the mailing list there and people can get in direct contact, > > You mean we don't? > > > too. RSS is IMHO a good solution > > Likewise > > > Maybe you could put a link to gimpusers.com on the front page. > > Why? > > > Also publish your news to news pages of computer and graphics designer > > sites (heise.com, Golem, Linux magazine, Deviant art, DOCMA etc.) and > > get in touch with their editors. > > As far as I can tell, they do it on their own accord. > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > -- Nemes Ioan Sorin
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