Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 10:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best solution would seem to be pulling in more donations so that certain things can get finished. The way SOC targets specific projects to help things move along. Whenever this was brought up before there didn't seem to

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-17 Thread Alex Pounds
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:29:52AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: We have money that we could use to sponsor development but so far the consensus seems to be that it is not a good idea to use the money as bounties. And yet, the Google Summer of Code was quite successful for the Gimp, wasn't it?

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:46 +0100, Alex Pounds wrote: And yet, the Google Summer of Code was quite successful for the Gimp, wasn't it? It depends on how you look at it. Yes, we had some contributions. But only very few of this has been committed to trunk by now. And out of the two

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-16 Thread Tor Lillqvist
SorinN writes: That's why we need a Gimp PRO, Inkscape PRO, Scribus PRO - someone, a Firm / Govern / Foundation / Linux Distro / Billionaire ...or a mixture of them must hire core developers of all 3 projects - put them into a big WEB / DTP Core Linux project and manage development and

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 4/16/07, Tor Lillqvist wrote: The closest thing, I guess, is that f-spot is being developed by a paid employee. Well, the closest thing would be MrB directly financed by Angulo Solido for fixing bugs and improving Scribus. F-Spot is a work that Larry does in his rare spare time, mostly

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-16 Thread gg
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:30:13 +0200, SorinN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why we need a Gimp PRO, Inkscape PRO, Scribus PRO - someone, a Firm / Govern / Foundation / Linux Distro / Billionaire ...or a mixture of them must hire core developers of all 3 projects - put them into a big WEB /

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-16 Thread Valerie VK
That's why we need a Gimp PRO, Inkscape PRO, Scribus PRO - someone, a Firm / Govern / Foundation / Linux Distro / Billionaire ...or a mixture of them must hire core developers of all 3 projects - put them into a big WEB / DTP Core Linux project and manage development and releases. If I

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-15 Thread gg
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:19:06 +0200, Hal V. Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2007 08:04, Chris Puttick wrote: Hi Forgive me if I have missed this information, but can someone give an estimate for the release of 2.4? We are trying to move to open source throughout the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-15 Thread SorinN
That's why we need a Gimp PRO, Inkscape PRO, Scribus PRO - someone, a Firm / Govern / Foundation / Linux Distro / Billionaire ...or a mixture of them must hire core developers of all 3 projects - put them into a big WEB / DTP Core Linux project and manage development and releases. This will

[Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-14 Thread Chris Puttick
Hi Forgive me if I have missed this information, but can someone give an estimate for the release of 2.4? We are trying to move to open source throughout the organisation, but the graphics team are solidly stuck to Adobe Photoshop and Gimp 2.4 seems the most likely candidate to replace it.

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-14 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Saturday 14 April 2007 08:04, Chris Puttick wrote: Hi Forgive me if I have missed this information, but can someone give an estimate for the release of 2.4? We are trying to move to open source throughout the organisation, but the graphics team are solidly stuck to Adobe Photoshop and