Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-11 Thread grafxuser
Hi here are some thoughts from me to the topic and postings before: 1. Solve the real problems: Full acknowledgement with Alexia and Alexandre to first solve the real problems that caused the delay. I like the proposal for the further Git branching and the proposal to iteratively check-in in

Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: No amount of money will help if there is no one available with the skills, level of knowledge of GIMP's source code, and the time to work on the project. I think the people with enough knowledge of GIMP's internals and the who have

Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-09 Thread Stefan Peter
On 03/09/2012 09:01 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: Someone wrote: So what kind of money do you think would it take to catch up? Or to at least make a significant step towards catching up? No amount of money will help if there is no one available with the skills, level of knowledge of GIMP's

Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-05 Thread peter sikking
Alexandre wrote: Personally, what I really need is CMYK Everyone wants CMYK, few mention what they need specifically :) yeah, beware of the schmuck: http://blog.mmiworks.net/2009/05/gimp-enter.html --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine

Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-05 Thread Alexia Death
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jeremy Morton ad...@game-point.net wrote: With all due respect, your method of not paying anyone has resulted in 2 years without a stable release of GIMP.  What's your point?  It's not like things are just rosy and there aint nothing to fix. Failure to release

Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-05 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
2012/3/5 Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com Early binding. Exporting to CMYK (for publishers who only accept CMYK files). Rich black vs 100% K. Hard soft proof (for clients who wish to print 0,0,255 and need to be shown the inevitable color shift). Overprinting. I'm sure I could dig up a

Re: [Gimp-developer] How much money to make a dent in GIMP 2.8?

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Slocum
But your point is true ..there are a lack of qualified manpower to speed-up the development and a daily growing list of requests from the userland. So what kind of money do you think would it take to catch up? Or to at least make a significant step towards catching up? -paul