Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-23 Thread Alexia Death
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > Who wants to > volunteer to prepare a list of bugs that are worth having a bounty put > on them? I believe it can only work if the bugs are nominated by developers who are prepared to "mentor" whoever is doing it for the bounty. I can dredge

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-17 Thread Ofnuts
On 01/17/2011 11:32 PM, Mike Williams wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Sven Neumann > wrote:So far this has been the most constructive idea that has been brought up in this thread. So why not? Let's try to come up with a list of bugs that block the GIMP 2.8

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Williams
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Sven Neumann wrote:So far this has been the most constructive idea that has been brought up > in this thread. So why not? Let's try to come up with a list of bugs > that block the GIMP 2.8 release and put bounties on them. Who wants to > volunteer to prepare a lis

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-17 Thread Sven Neumann
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 00:27 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 01/06/2011 11:01 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > > I just wanted to let you know that we have seen a dramatic increase in > > donations since then. More than 120 people donated over the last 8 days > > and sent us about 2,500 dollars. Perhap

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Sven Neumann
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:39 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: > On Monday, January 10, 2011 19:17:51 Øyvind Kolås wrote: > > Code documentation is also one of the tasks that are not permitted for > > instance in the Google summer of code, perhaps we could come up with a > > set of bounties, or find someon

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Muré
2011/1/10 Øyvind Kolås > Lets hope use of rewards wouldnt scare off people > from contributing such work for free. > It could be a one-time operation, with clearly defined goal and bounty. Just the time we need to have these needed documentation. -- Michael Muré _

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Alexia Death wrote: > On Monday, January 10, 2011 19:17:51 Øyvind Kolås wrote: >> Code documentation is also one of the tasks that are not permitted for >> instance in the Google summer of code, perhaps we could come up with a >> set of bounties, or find someone mo

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Alexia Death
On Monday, January 10, 2011 19:17:51 Øyvind Kolås wrote: > Code documentation is also one of the tasks that are not permitted for > instance in the Google summer of code, perhaps we could come up with a > set of bounties, or find someone motivated and fund them on a task by > task basis or even par

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 05:17:51PM +, Øyvind Kolås wrote: > Code documentation is also one of the tasks that are not permitted for > instance in the Google summer of code, perhaps we could come up with a > set of bounties, or find someone motivated and fund them on a task by > task basis or eve

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Michael Muré wrote: > You may know me as the student who coded the cage tool during this summer. > > I'd like to add something about these bounty. For me, the key point > for the health of the community dev of Gimp is the current difficulty > to be used to the code

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Muré
Hi everyone, You may know me as the student who coded the cage tool during this summer. I'd like to add something about these bounty. For me, the key point for the health of the community dev of Gimp is the current difficulty to be used to the codebase. I myself had a hard time to understand how

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-07 Thread Alexia Death
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: > One natural use of money donated specifically to speed up a GIMP 2.8 > release would be in the form of bounties for fixing bugs that blocks > GIMP 2.8 from being released. I know we have a history of disliking > bounties, but as far as I kn

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-06 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 06.01.2011 23:01, Sven Neumann wrote: > I just wanted to let you know that we have seen a dramatic increase in > donations since then. More than 120 people donated over the last 8 days > and sent us about 2,500 dollars. Perhaps it would be a good idea to > discuss how we can actually use this m

Re: [Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-06 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 01/06/2011 11:01 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > I just wanted to let you know that we have seen a dramatic increase in > donations since then. More than 120 people donated over the last 8 days > and sent us about 2,500 dollars. Perhaps it would be a good idea to > discuss how we can actually use this

[Gimp-developer] donations for GIMP 2.8

2011-01-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, I guess most of you noticed that several people blogged about the fact that GIMP 2.8 has not yet been released even though the schedule that Martin published a while ago estimated that this would have happened by the end of 2010. As far as I can see this is the article that started it all: ht