Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-26 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
The things can be visually organized like the Inkscape does: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap . As I think, the roadmap at their site is much late to the current features implemented, but the whole framework represents the picture. Although there can be something like

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-26 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 10/26/07, saulgoode wrote: Finally, there should be an effort to maintain integrity of the XCF file format by converting between the core implementation of layer groups and parasites attached to drawables during saves and loads of XCF files (older GIMP versions would read the files but

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-26 Thread saulgoode
Regarding the process of developing a roadmap, I think this mailing list should be where proposals are made and commented upon (there has already been some nice commentary in this thread). The main GIMP developers should fairly rapidly be able to come to a decision about the roadmap

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-26 Thread saulgoode
A change in file formats should be postponed until a bump in the major version number takes place (per GNU coding standards?). But my proposal of adding parasites containing layer group meta-data to files saved in the current XCF standard is indeed merely an interim solution, permitting

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-26 Thread Brendan
Go for the low-hanging fruit. Do whatever work is easiest that can roll into new releases. If GEGL is toughest, leave that until 2nd, and do the GDK stuff first. Do whatever you have the strongest team for. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-25 Thread Valerie VK
Gimp 2.4 is great! On roadmaps: could enhancement requests be grouped by category somewhere? Going through the list of enhancement proposals in Bugzilla is rather awkward to say the least. I do like how some programs have used a wiki, like Firefox 3 and Inkscape. Eventually, for Gimp, each wiki

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-25 Thread Guillermo Espertino
What do you think? I think it's a great idea to have shorter deveopment cycles. It looks like the project is more active and alive. I've heard a lot of people saying that gimp was almost dead, while I was testing 2.3.x series almost monthly. But people tend to think that the activity of

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-25 Thread Valerie VK
So, an important decision must be taken, imo. Plan the 2.6 version as a new core version (with important improvements in the technical area, but maybe not that visible for the final users), or a new features version. If this isn't defined, there is a risk to fall in a long development

[Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, so far we didn't have a well-defined development roadmap. I would like to propose that this is changed for GIMP 2.6 and beyond. Hopefully this can help to acomplish two goals: - GIMP 2.6 should not take too long to develop - we will get more developers Before we start the discussion of

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-24 Thread bgw
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, so far we didn't have a well-defined development roadmap. I would like to propose that this is changed for GIMP 2.6 and beyond. Hopefully this can help to acomplish two goals: - GIMP 2.6 should not take too long to develop - we will get more developers Before

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Mohler
On 10/24/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] IMO it would be best if people proposed features here so that they can be discussed on the list. We should then collect these proposals somewhere and try to decide on milestones for them later. It would probably help if we try to be