Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Michael Grosberg
Sven Neumann sven at gimp.org writes: Despite the fact that GIMP has a very clearly defined vision and very interesting features on the roadmap, it may be true that this isn't communicated well enough. But this is a matter that should be discussed on the gimp-web mailing-list. What we are

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/22/10, Michael Grosberg wrote: Forgive me for my presumption... I'd like to use this thread to address this lack of programmers. Don't you find it weird that a project like Gimp, which in theory is a very useful application, with a very broad appeal, draws less programmers than, say,

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/26/10, Michael Grosberg wrote: What I had in mind by restart is to present a future vision of GIMP in a manner so attractive that it would find its way into relevant blogs and websites such as slashdot. Slashdot. Right. That's where GIMP developers are blamed every time whatever they do.

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: Michael, dealing with people who have this sort of doubts is not the job for programmers. It's psychiatry. You need a special training for So true. -- Branko Vukelić bg.bra...@gmail.com

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread David Gowers
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno gwid...@mpc.com.br wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg grosberg.mich...@gmail.com wrote: xianghang liu xianghangliu at gmail.com writes: Hi, I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C developer. I

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 01:19 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg [...] the most requested feature at questions time, was also this one. Luckily, work in this area is planned, with fixed-size layer boundaries being an endangered species. Unluckily,

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Grosberg
Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net writes: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 01:19 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg [...] the most requested feature at questions time, was also this one. Luckily, work in this area is planned, with fixed-size layer

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Alexia Death
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 21:04:13 Michael Grosberg wrote: What do you think? I think GIMP IS going places and HAS exciting things happening to it. What we don't have is resources(skills,time,people) tho write such marketing materials. PLEASE do volunteer.

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Sven Neumann
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:04 +, Michael Grosberg wrote: I think the reason is lack of vision and inspiration. There is a perception that Gimp isn't going anywhere. To attract people, a project must FEEL as if it's going somewhere; people want to see their effort being put to good use. And

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, 00a...@gmail.com (2010-07-22 at 1532.12 +0930): I've presented GIT master for a large audience today (200+ people)  - after the presentation, the most requested feature at questions time, was also this one. Just noting that we still need the option to manage layer bounds ourselves.

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Alexia Death
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 21:32:00 Sven Neumann wrote: But this is a matter that should be discussed on the gimp-web mailing-list. What we are lacking even more than programmers is a capable and thrust-worthy sysadmin to overhaul our web services. That mailing list does not work for me and

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread yahvuu
On 22.07.2010 20:04, Michael Grosberg wrote: What I'm saying is that Gimp needs a highly visible restart. i guess the 2.8 release alone, with its single window mode will come as a blow for the windows world: a clear sign that it now makes sense to contribute code that addresses the other, much

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Grosberg
xianghang liu xianghangliu at gmail.com writes: Hi, I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C developer. I am a first-year PhD student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some bugs and then implement new features and my final objective is gsoc

[Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-20 Thread xianghang liu
Hi, I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C developer. I am a first-year PhD student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some bugs and then implement new features and my final objective is gsoc 2011. Do you have any suggestions? Xianghang Liu

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-20 Thread Alexia Death
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, xianghang liu xianghang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C developer. I am a first-year PhD student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some bugs and then implement new features and my