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

2011-03-16 Thread Charlie De
Martin, with all due respect, your focus in releasing 2.8 ASAP should be on 
integrating fixes that are completed, not battling to bring in new 
functionality 
such as layer groups. What's the point of layer groups if the layer transfer 
modes don't work correctly? More important than that is that a promise is being 
broken - a promise made to an excellent new talent who came out of nowhere and 
worked and behaved to the highest standard. The least you could do to encourage 
his further participation is to fulfill your part of the bargain and let his 
work see the light of day in the 2.8 release. In preference to layer groups, 
which could wait till 2.10.


My criticism is for the whole team involved in these decisions, I don't wish to 
single out Martin or ask anyone to quit.

Charlie



- Original Message 
 From: Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com
 To: gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
 Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 6:10:33 AM
 Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for 
 layer 
mode Color
 
 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

2011-03-16 Thread Martin Nordholts
2011/3/16 Carol Spears ca...@gimp.org:
 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.

 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...

Hi Carol,

Thank you for sharing your concerns. I will quit when the majority of
contributing members of the GIMP community wants me to quit.

Regards,
Martin

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

2011-03-16 Thread Martin Nordholts
2011/3/16 Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com:
 Martin, with all due respect, your focus in releasing 2.8 ASAP should be on
 integrating fixes that are completed, not battling to bring in new 
 functionality
 such as layer groups. What's the point of layer groups if the layer transfer
 modes don't work correctly? More important than that is that a promise is 
 being
 broken - a promise made to an excellent new talent who came out of nowhere and
 worked and behaved to the highest standard. The least you could do to 
 encourage
 his further participation is to fulfill your part of the bargain and let his
 work see the light of day in the 2.8 release. In preference to layer groups,
 which could wait till 2.10.


 My criticism is for the whole team involved in these decisions, I don't wish 
 to
 single out Martin or ask anyone to quit.

Layer groups are already in 2.8, but we can't release 2.8 without
fixing some things that users will expect to work and that must work,
for example layer masks on a layer group. In other words, this is not
about bringing in some new features not including others, it is about
bringing our git master branch to a state where there are no
incomplete features on it. Avoiding incomplete features on the master
branch is crucial if we want to get in control of our currently very
long development cycles.

And regarding the patch itself: It is not quite as easy as just
commiting what we have now and be done with it. Before we can commit a
patch like this, it needs thorough review of experienced developers.
And by my standards, the patch also needs to come with a test case
that verifies that it works, and that it keeps working. So, there is a
substantial amount of work left before that bug report can be closed
as fixed.

It was more than 3 years ago we made a stable release. Just as you
point out, we must stop bringing in new features, finish work in
progress, and make a release.

Regards,
Martin


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

2011-03-16 Thread Alexia Death
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Charlie De charlieco...@yahoo.com wrote:
 My criticism is for the whole team involved in these decisions, I don't wish 
 to
 single out Martin or ask anyone to quit.

I understand your frustration, but you need to understand why we do
things the way we do. Patches that come in need to be reviewed by a
core developer  to be accepted to assure continued code quality(and
that's quite important in keeping the code from devolving into a
mess...). We have approximately 1.5 core developers to do that at the
moment and cleaning up stuff already in 2.8 tree takes priority.

Big patches developed in isolation have hard time making it into the
tree, because the integration is often pain. If you really care about
getting something in you need to become engaged in the developer
community and work within the developer comunity... Then the merge
phase is easy...
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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-16 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Hello,

perhaps everyone can calm down. What is the problem with this bug? If
it is an missing review, then it's OK to move it to 2.10, because we
don't have any developer for doing it. But if it is something with the
patch then Rupert could fix it.

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

2011-03-16 Thread Charlie De
Martin,


Could you please demonstrate your sincerity by escalating the 'bug' to 
critical? 
It would demonstrate commitment to really having this in 2.10, rather than just 
'looking at it'. I think you owe it to the developer to make that gesture at 
the 
very least.

Good luck with all the work toward 2.8 now, the efforts of the dev team are 
much 
appreciated.

Charlie



 And regarding the patch itself: It is  not quite as easy as just
 commiting what we have now and be done with it.  Before we can commit a
 patch like this, it needs thorough review of  experienced developers.
 And by my standards, the patch also needs to come  with a test case
 that verifies that it works, and that it keeps working. So,  there is a
 substantial amount of work left before that bug report can be  closed
 as fixed.
 
 It was more than 3 years ago we made a stable  release. Just as you
 point out, we must stop bringing in new features, finish  work in
 progress, and make a release.
 
 Regards,
 Martin
 
 


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

2011-03-16 Thread Simon Budig
Charlie De (charlieco...@yahoo.com) wrote:
 Could you please demonstrate your sincerity by escalating the 'bug' to
 critical? It would demonstrate commitment to really having this in
 2.10, rather than just 'looking at it'. I think you owe it to the
 developer to make that gesture at the very least.

critical in Bugzilla has a specific meaning: It means that the bug can
cause the application to crash and cause e.g. data loss.

There is the target milestone for the purpose of indicating in which
version this is supposed to be fixed, but this already is set to 2.10.

Bugzilla is a tool to manage bug reports and/or accepted feature
requests, and we try to use it as such. Overloading random bug
attributes with different meanings does not help here.

Bugzilla is not a tool to demonstrate commitment or to fulfil other
social purposes. I think it would be the wrong place.

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

2011-03-16 Thread Jacek Poplawski
If I understand correctly...

You don't want to apply patch with serious functionality, because
stable release is coming and there is no time for that.

At the same time I noticed incorrect behaviour of UI
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643155) which happeneded
month ago, and which will affect anyone who uses color picker in
curves with different WM than the one which was tested by default. Am
I right that stable Gimp release will contain this regression, because
there will be no time to fix it?
(this is just an example, because I found this bug, but I suspect
there are more noticed by other people)

So... patch with new funtionality will not be commited to trunk, but
patch which broken basic functionality was commited month ago.

I know nothing about politics and fights between Gimp developers, I
just want to understand the development process (I use Gimp almost
everyday, so it's very important to me). I am also willing to donate
my free time to this project (as a developer), but reading this forum
(complexity of development process, not fights) holds me back.
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Re: [Gimp-developer] [Bug 325564] Use CIE LCH instead of HSL for layer mode Color

2011-03-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 00:23 +0100, Jacek Poplawski wrote:

 I know nothing about politics and fights between Gimp developers, I
 just want to understand the development process (I use Gimp almost
 everyday, so it's very important to me). 

It's not a question of fights and politics.

It's a very small number of people with a lot of other things to do in
life, trying hard to work together, and making a really good product.

 I am also willing to donate
 my free time to this project (as a developer), but reading this forum
 (complexity of development process, not fights) holds me back.

GIMP is a fairly large piece of software; it's also true that there seem
to be some bottlenecks in development right now.  As I see it these are:

(1) all UI proposals (and actual changes) need to be reviewed by an
experienced UI designer; this does happen, and all the developers seem
to agree that it improves the user experience considerably, once the
negotiations are complete, but it can take a lot of iterations;
(2) the move to gegl means lots of patches and contributions get turned
down, because they will help gimp in the short term, but will then soon
need to be rewritten;
(3) there are between 0.5 and 3 people-equivalent working on GIMP coding
in any given week.  That is, GIMP generally gets only a few hours of
progress each week right now.
(4) it's true there's not 100% agreement on priorities, although there's
for sure broad agreement.  Some high priorities are clearly fixing the
partly-implemented features (e.g. single window mode, on-canvas curves,
layer groups), and the move to gtk+ 3.0.  This work is mostly in the
very hard category, so it needs core developers.

Changing this means getting past a difficult hill in the road, so that
then smaller changes (even if equally important to some or many users)
become possible again.

Maybe one day a month of gimp love easy bug fixes would be worth the
time cost of having the core developers spending the day mentoring.

If it were possible to hire Sven, Mitch, the Michaels, Alexia, Simon,
Wilber and the others for a solid month, we could probably drive over
that first hill, and maybe even get within sight of the Mountains Of
Gegl.  For the Mountains we'll probably need a lot of
not-necessarily-core developers to move plugins, tools and scripts.

Saying, but this bug is absolutely critical is really only OK if (1)
you've already got a patch that's well-formatted :-), and (2) if it's
really true that absolutely no-one can use GIMP without the fix, e.g. it
crashes on startup. That may be true for GTK+ 3, for example.

This is my own perspective, and I am not by any means a core gimp
developer, even if I might like being in a cage sometimes :D

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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




- 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
 
 --- Comment #53 from Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com 2011-03-14 08:04:28 
  
UTC ---
 We really must release 2.8 now, let's look at this for 2.10  instead.
 
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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.

/Øyvind Kolås
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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

 --- Comment #53 from Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com 2011-03-14 08:04:28
UTC ---
 We really must release 2.8 now, let's look at this for 2.10  instead.

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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/

carol

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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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