On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:36:28PM +1100, Graeme Gill wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > >yeah, it is cool. reading the mail list and submitting patches is the > >way to do things right. no need to talk to yosh or me or anyone about > >it. > > You won't get the broadest contribution from those with color expertise if > this is the hurdle to be jumped. There is a lot of good stuff out there > that could help GIMP out, but you can't expect it to be handed to you by > first having everyone become a GIMP hacker. Most of the expertise in color > has no > particular interest in GIMP as an end in itself (disappointing as that is, > I imagine, to those working on GIMP!). > this was a response to Mr. Rowe's claim that you needed to work through Manish Singh (yosh) and other stuff that was incorrect and cut from this mail.
> What's more reasonable is for GIMP developers to look at what's out there, > and request assistance in making it suitable for inclusion in GIMP (ie. > interfaces, > features, licences, organization, explanation). It would be a far more > efficient > arrangement for people to work in their areas of expertise, rather than > expecting > everyone to become familiar with the intricacies of GIMP. > i think they have been doing this and i also know that they are really happy with the people who have been discussing color management on the developer list. the person who started this thread asked specifically about getting write permission to the gimp development branch, or perhaps i misread this. the suggestion for following the discussion on the gimp-developer list would rightfully be directed at idea people who do not want to deal directly with submiting code. > Of course the broader view is that all this is inefficient, and a better > solution would be to develop a general color infrastructure for Linux > and other systems, a user of which would be GIMP. > the gimp developers have been working with freedesktop.org since before gimp2 arrived. i don't suspect this will change when it comes to color management. if people are not interested in gimp and color profiles, that is fine. i was answering different sorts of questions that were more specifically related to "how to get permission". as Hal said, there has already been some very good discussion of color management on the gimp-developer mail list and the developers are interested in learning as well as patches. however, if you feel that your efforts are best given to a more general discussion, i am certain that eventually those efforts will make it to gimp. feel free to not get cvs permission or read the gimp-developer list as well. i stand by what i said about the right way to become a code contributor, however. and i will continue to explain this if the wrong message is imparted by people who went about things the wrong way. thanks, carol ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
