Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/14/2011 11:59 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
 Hi,

 This decision, as I see it, change the release date from within
 months to within some weeks -

May I ask for the calculations that led you to the conclusion that we 
are weeks away from a release? I haven't done the math yet, but I still 
expect us to be months away from a release.


 I hope you have in mind that Translators have to  know about so they
 can update translations as possible, as well. At some reasonable point
 before the release, a string freeze status for GIMPshould be set
 (even if a few string chanegs are to happen after that).

Thanks for the reminder. We should probably enter a soft string freeze 
soon...


 Other than translation, we have to work the Python bindings so there
 are no functionality regressions, (whch includes the ability to work
 with layer groups) -
 so to the above list of bugs, we shuld at least have one more about this task.
 (this also depends on being able to transform layer groups).

Not including API to work with layer groups in Python is not a 
regression, it's just missing functionality in one of the scripting 
languages. It is unfortunate if GIMP 2.8 will be released without layer 
groups support in Python, but the alternative is worse: not releasing 
GIMP 2.8 at all. And we should arrange for the Python bindings to be 
automatically generated from the PDB rather than wasting man-weeks on 
manually keeping it up to date. Not an easy task perhaps, but the only 
sensible one.

  / Martin


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Jon Nordby
On 15 March 2011 07:43, Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com wrote:
 Not including API to work with layer groups in Python is not a
 regression, it's just missing functionality in one of the scripting
 languages. It is unfortunate if GIMP 2.8 will be released without layer
 groups support in Python, but the alternative is worse: not releasing
 GIMP 2.8 at all. And we should arrange for the Python bindings to be
 automatically generated from the PDB rather than wasting man-weeks on
 manually keeping it up to date. Not an easy task perhaps, but the only
 sensible one.

Long term, bindings should of course be generated (or rather be
dynamic using pygobject, when/if possible).
However I need layer groups exposed for the Python API in order to
support layer groups in OpenRaster, so I will probably do these
bindings for 2.8. Just need to find the time. Do we have a bug open
about this issue?

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 03/14/2011 11:59 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
 Hi,

 This decision, as I see it, change the release date from within
 months to within some weeks -

 May I ask for the calculations that led you to the conclusion that we
 are weeks away from a release? I haven't done the math yet, but I still
 expect us to be months away from a release.


 I hope you have in mind that Translators have to  know about so they
 can update translations as possible, as well. At some reasonable point
 before the release, a string freeze status for GIMPshould be set
 (even if a few string chanegs are to happen after that).

 Thanks for the reminder. We should probably enter a soft string freeze
 soon...


 Other than translation, we have to work the Python bindings so there
 are no functionality regressions, (whch includes the ability to work
 with layer groups) -
 so to the above list of bugs, we shuld at least have one more about this 
 task.
 (this also depends on being able to transform layer groups).

 Not including API to work with layer groups in Python is not a
 regression, it's just missing functionality in one of the scripting
 languages. It is unfortunate if GIMP 2.8 will be released without layer
 groups support in Python, but the alternative is worse: not releasing
 GIMP 2.8 at all. And we should arrange for the Python bindings to be
 automatically generated from the PDB rather than wasting man-weeks on
 manually keeping it up to date. Not an easy task perhaps, but the only
 sensible one.

Scripts which previously interated through layers are currently not
working. That is a regression.
Possibly making layer groups transform work seamlessly.

I will do my best to include such support personally over the next few
days - allright if you think it shoud
not be a blocker.


The python bindings do work from the PDB. The current matter with
layer groups is that they introduce a new kind o f object, and the
Python bindngs on't work with simple integer IDs that the PDB use -
there must be a corresponding object on the Python side. (it won't
cost a single man week to integrate it - but I've been so absetn I
ahven't weven checked the PDB calls available to deal with layer
groups yet).


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
 Hi,

 This decision, as I see it, change the release date from within
 months to within some weeks -
 I hope you have in mind that Translators have to  know about so they
 can update translations as possible, as well. At some reasonable point
 before the release, a string freeze status for GIMPshould be set
 (even if a few string chanegs are to happen after that).

Speaking of which, I'd love to know what on Earth the reasoning behind
putting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556884 off the
milestones is supposed to mean. The prerequisite is in place, making
the messages translatable is very little work. So why are we going to
ship 2.8 with the horrible mix of English/localized UI once again?

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Announcing AdaptableGIMP

2011-03-15 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Michael Terry wrote:
 We would like to announce the availability of the initial release of
 AdaptableGIMP, a modified version of GIMP that integrates new social,
 community-based customization features into the application.

I'm afraid that AdaptableGIMP is a new version of GIMP line as well
as no other statement about relation of the project to, er, vanilla
GIMP leaves a lot of room for speculations :)

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/15/2011 10:44 AM, Jon Nordby wrote:
 On 15 March 2011 07:43, Martin Nordholtsense...@gmail.com  wrote:
 Not including API to work with layer groups in Python is not a
 regression, it's just missing functionality in one of the scripting
 languages. It is unfortunate if GIMP 2.8 will be released without layer
 groups support in Python, but the alternative is worse: not releasing
 GIMP 2.8 at all. And we should arrange for the Python bindings to be
 automatically generated from the PDB rather than wasting man-weeks on
 manually keeping it up to date. Not an easy task perhaps, but the only
 sensible one.

 Long term, bindings should of course be generated (or rather be
 dynamic using pygobject, when/if possible).
 However I need layer groups exposed for the Python API in order to
 support layer groups in OpenRaster, so I will probably do these
 bindings for 2.8. Just need to find the time. Do we have a bug open
 about this issue?

Take a look at

Bug 624303 - Introduce an item class in PyGIMP
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624303

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/15/2011 12:35 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
 Scripts which previously interated through layers are currently not
 working. That is a regression.

It sure sounds like one, please file a bug report and put it on the 2.8 
milestone with a scripts that allows the regression to be easily reproduced.

  / Martin


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/15/2011 02:12 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
 Hi,

 This decision, as I see it, change the release date from within
 months to within some weeks -
 I hope you have in mind that Translators have to  know about so they
 can update translations as possible, as well. At some reasonable point
 before the release, a string freeze status for GIMPshould be set
 (even if a few string chanegs are to happen after that).

 Speaking of which, I'd love to know what on Earth the reasoning behind
 putting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556884 off the
 milestones is supposed to mean. The prerequisite is in place, making
 the messages translatable is very little work. So why are we going to
 ship 2.8 with the horrible mix of English/localized UI once again?

There are thousands of other small things we could spend time on rather 
than working on the highest prioritized features dictated by our 
roadmap. But if we do, it might very well go another 9 years without 
any support for high bit depths in GIMP.

Let's please focus on what's important, and compared to high bit depths, 
that is not important.

  / Martin


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote:

 Speaking of which, I'd love to know what on Earth the reasoning behind
 putting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556884 off the
 milestones is supposed to mean. The prerequisite is in place, making
 the messages translatable is very little work. So why are we going to
 ship 2.8 with the horrible mix of English/localized UI once again?

 There are thousands of other small things we could spend time on rather
 than working on the highest prioritized features dictated by our
 roadmap. But if we do, it might very well go another 9 years without
 any support for high bit depths in GIMP.

It looks like you didn't even bother looking at the bug report in question.

Right now all it takes is green lights for someone (e.g. me) to enable
the messages for translation and then let translators do their work.

With all respect due, what 9 years are you talking about?

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Enabling a 2.8 release: planning for a 2.10 release

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/15/2011 06:38 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote:

 Speaking of which, I'd love to know what on Earth the reasoning behind
 putting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556884 off the
 milestones is supposed to mean. The prerequisite is in place, making
 the messages translatable is very little work. So why are we going to
 ship 2.8 with the horrible mix of English/localized UI once again?

 There are thousands of other small things we could spend time on rather
 than working on the highest prioritized features dictated by our
 roadmap. But if we do, it might very well go another 9 years without
 any support for high bit depths in GIMP.

 It looks like you didn't even bother looking at the bug report in question.

 Right now all it takes is green lights for someone (e.g. me) to enable
 the messages for translation and then let translators do their work.

 With all respect due, what 9 years are you talking about?

I did look at it, and I saw that mitch said there was a problem, then 
you said there wasn't a problem, and now developer needs to verify that 
there maybe isn't a problem. It is harder to ignore small things like 
this, but they add up, and as I said: we need to stop working on what is 
not important and not be trapped in working on things like this.

I was referring to the age of Bug 74224 - Add support for 16 bits per 
channel...

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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Charlie De
Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would be in 
2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new talent? 
Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first 
reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. That 
is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?

Charlie




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 Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 9:05:01 AM
 Subject: [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color
 
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325564
   GIMP | General  | git master
 
 --- Comment #53 from Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com 2011-03-14 08:04:28 
  
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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Jacek Poplawski
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would be 
 in
 2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new talent?
 Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first
 reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. That
 is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?

This is very sad.
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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Jacek Poplawski
jacekpoplaw...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would be 
 in
 2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new 
 talent?
 Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first
 reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. That
 is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?

 This is very sad.

I am not among the people working on GIMP itself - in the context of
GIMP is primarily do work on GEGL - but I can tell both of you that
this type of email does not serve to motivate any developer. At best
they ignore it; at worst they get discouraged and decide that spending
some of their spare time contributing to the common good/free
software/GIMP is not worth it.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:20:14PM +, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Jacek Poplawski
 jacekpoplaw...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com wrote:
  Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would 
  be in
  2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new 
  talent?
  Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first
  reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. 
  That
  is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?
 
  This is very sad.
 
 I am not among the people working on GIMP itself - in the context of
 GIMP is primarily do work on GEGL - but I can tell both of you that
 this type of email does not serve to motivate any developer. At best
 they ignore it; at worst they get discouraged and decide that spending
 some of their spare time contributing to the common good/free
 software/GIMP is not worth it.
 
interesting, this because when GIMP was being developed by many people 
seemingly happily so, it was the quality of the patch or plug-in or the script,
not the flavor of the ass-kissing or the style of the request.

it is the left brained people (artists and such) who are in need of constant
appreciation and reassurance to happily do the right thing or to continue
to do the job as was described but the right brained people, the more 
technically adept don't need so much of the obvious appreciation.

this easy description of two different kinds of people starts to fail when a 
right brained seems to be needing the reassurance that the artistic sort do
but actually just wants enough credit to continue their work and pay bills and
to participate in the community that they are or have been serving in.

i have worked with actors, for instance -- in a place where actors should be,
btw.  it doesn't take much to tell these creative sort that they are really
doing well, etc etc.  no, actually it does take much.  it takes familiarity 
with their work and knowlege of their improvement.

interestingly enough, the right-brainers enjoy this also.  they often fail to
know how to receive the appreciation.

something has interfered with the right-brained people having access to both
bugzilla and the source, perhaps.  maybe actors where they should not be?

i have been waiting for more than a week for a bug to be closed which should
be closed, for instance.  it might be the only way to communicate with the
developers right now, but if the developers are not looking at bugzilla, then
they will probably have to manage upset contributors with patches when they
loose patience and write to this list.

or, the obviously broken bug reporting interface that has been suggested should
be replaced with one that does what it is supposed to do.

carol

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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Christopher Curtis
How about:

This patch seems to have been completed last year; there are no
outstanding issues against it.  What needs to be done in order for
this to be integrated?

Chris

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would be 
 in
 2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new talent?
 Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first
 reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. That
 is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?

 Charlie




 - Original Message 
 From: GIMP bugzi...@gnome.org
 To: charlieco...@yahoo.com
 Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 9:05:01 AM
 Subject: [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325564
   GIMP | General  | git master

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UTC ---
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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:34:13PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:20:14PM +, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
  On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Jacek Poplawski
  jacekpoplaw...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com 
   wrote:
   Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it 
   would be in
   2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new 
   talent?
   Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was 
   first
   reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. 
   That
   is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?
  
   This is very sad.
  
  I am not among the people working on GIMP itself - in the context of
  GIMP is primarily do work on GEGL - but I can tell both of you that
  this type of email does not serve to motivate any developer. At best
  they ignore it; at worst they get discouraged and decide that spending
  some of their spare time contributing to the common good/free
  software/GIMP is not worth it.
  
 interesting, this because when GIMP was being developed by many people 
 seemingly happily so, it was the quality of the patch or plug-in or the 
 script,
 not the flavor of the ass-kissing or the style of the request.
 
 it is the left brained people (artists and such) who are in need of constant
 appreciation and reassurance to happily do the right thing or to continue
 to do the job as was described but the right brained people, the more 
 technically adept don't need so much of the obvious appreciation.
 
 this easy description of two different kinds of people starts to fail when a 
 right brained seems to be needing the reassurance that the artistic sort do
 but actually just wants enough credit to continue their work and pay bills and
 to participate in the community that they are or have been serving in.
 
 i have worked with actors, for instance -- in a place where actors should be,
 btw.  it doesn't take much to tell these creative sort that they are really
 doing well, etc etc.  no, actually it does take much.  it takes familiarity 
 with their work and knowlege of their improvement.
 
 interestingly enough, the right-brainers enjoy this also.  they often fail to
 know how to receive the appreciation.
 
 something has interfered with the right-brained people having access to both
 bugzilla and the source, perhaps.  maybe actors where they should not be?
 
 i have been waiting for more than a week for a bug to be closed which should
 be closed, for instance.  it might be the only way to communicate with the
 developers right now, but if the developers are not looking at bugzilla, then
 they will probably have to manage upset contributors with patches when they
 loose patience and write to this list.
 
 or, the obviously broken bug reporting interface that has been suggested 
 should
 be replaced with one that does what it is supposed to do.
 
s/left/right/

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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/15/2011 08:47 PM, Charlie De wrote:
 Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would be 
 in
 2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new talent?
 Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first
 reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. That
 is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?

If we never make releases, we won't get new contributors either. We 
really need to make a release ASAP, and we simply don't have time to fix 
this before the 2.8 release. In modern software development, 
uncomfortable decisions like this sometimes needs to be made. I am sorry 
that it upsets you.

  / Martin


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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:10:33AM +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
 On 03/15/2011 08:47 PM, Charlie De wrote:
  Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would 
  be in
  2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new 
  talent?
  Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first
  reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. 
  That
  is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity?
 
 If we never make releases, we won't get new contributors either. We 
 really need to make a release ASAP, and we simply don't have time to fix 
 this before the 2.8 release. In modern software development, 
 uncomfortable decisions like this sometimes needs to be made. I am sorry 
 that it upsets you.
 
you took the time to make tabs expand with the names of the dialog which the
tab belonged to.

you also spend a lot of time repairing a script-fu for which a tool already 
worked fine for -- a script-fu which might better have been rewritten to use
the current tool.

other bugs don't get closed after patches are applied.

i mention these things because you have access and except for the closing bugs
problem, these are the things that you have done in the last year or so.

martin, if in, oh, lets say 3 days, March 18, 2011 the majority of your list
items are not commited, perhaps you should consider stepping aside.  releases
don't attract developers.  look at the history!  gimp-1.0 - gimp-1.2, 1997 thru
2000.  lots of contributors, lots of development, lots of ideas, lots of bug
fixing.  it was a lot of fun.

buildbot nightlies seem to have attracted mitch who has been working on 
things consistently and changes to the italian po files.

gimp has been stable enough to run the unstable version (with an exception for 
the current layer groups and a problem with painting since the end of last 
September) for years and years now.

sometimes, you gotta quit -- and see if that helps things.  i sure didn't like
what was going on, i needed to be forced to quit.  so, okay fine, i quit for 
more than two years, maybe more than three and you know what?  the problem
wasn't me because all of the things that i did not like persisted and there
was no improvement in involvement -- in fact, involvement (especially by 
people who can fix bugs and have some knowlege of gimps innards) dropped off.

i cannot force you to quit the way i was forced to quit.  i can only ask you to
consider this and also that before you quit, that you removed the buildbot 
stuff from gimp's source and put it into eh, lets say buildbots source on the
same server.  that way, other projects can become rejuvinated with buildbot
product the way that gimp has been.  i was told that it was a gnome project
afterall...

carol

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