Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Michael, dealing with people who have this sort of doubts is not the > job for programmers. It's psychiatry. You need a special training for So true. -- Branko Vukelić bg.bra...@gmail.com stu...@brankovukelic.com Check out my bl

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/26/10, Michael Grosberg wrote: > What I had in mind by "restart" is to present a future vision of GIMP in a > manner so attractive that it would find its way into relevant blogs and > websites such as slashdot. Slashdot. Right. That's where GIMP developers are blamed every time whatever they

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/22/10, Michael Grosberg wrote: > Forgive me for my presumption... > I'd like to use this thread to address this lack of programmers. > Don't you find it weird that a project like Gimp, which in theory is a very > useful application, with a very broad appeal, draws less programmers than, > say

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Michael Grosberg
Sven Neumann gimp.org> writes: > Despite the fact that GIMP has a very clearly defined vision and very > interesting features on the roadmap, it may be true that this isn't > communicated well enough. But this is a matter that should be discussed > on the gimp-web mailing-list. What we are lackin

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread yahvuu
On 22.07.2010 20:04, Michael Grosberg wrote: > What I'm saying is that Gimp needs a highly visible "restart". i guess the 2.8 release alone, with its single window mode will come as a blow for the windows world: a clear sign that it now makes sense to contribute code that addresses the other, muc

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Alexia Death
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 21:32:00 Sven Neumann wrote: > But this is a matter that should be discussed > on the gimp-web mailing-list. What we are lacking even more than > programmers is a capable and thrust-worthy sysadmin to overhaul our web > services. That mailing list does not work for me an

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, 00a...@gmail.com (2010-07-22 at 1532.12 +0930): > > I've presented GIT master for a large audience today (200+ people)  - > > after the presentation, the "most requested feature" at questions > > time, was also this one. > > Just noting that we still need the option to manage layer bounds ours

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Sven Neumann
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:04 +, Michael Grosberg wrote: > I think the reason is lack of vision and inspiration. There is a perception > that > Gimp isn't going anywhere. To attract people, a project must FEEL as if it's > going somewhere; people want to see their effort being put to good use.

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Alexia Death
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 21:04:13 Michael Grosberg wrote: > What do you think? I think GIMP IS going places and HAS exciting things happening to it. What we don't have is resources(skills,time,people) tho write such marketing materials. PLEASE do volunteer. ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Grosberg
Liam R E Quin holoweb.net> writes: > > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 01:19 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg > > [...] > > the "most requested feature" at questions time, was also this one. > > Luckily, work in this area is planned, with fixed-size lay

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 01:19 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg > [...] > the "most requested feature" at questions time, was also this one. Luckily, work in this area is planned, with fixed-size layer boundaries being an endangered species. Unluckily

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-21 Thread David Gowers
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg > wrote: >> xianghang liu gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C >>> developer. I am a first-year PhD >>> student in co

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-21 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg wrote: > xianghang liu gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C >> developer. I am a first-year PhD >> student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some >> bugs and then

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Grosberg
xianghang liu gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C > developer. I am a first-year PhD > student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some > bugs and then implement new > features and my final objective is gsoc 2011. > D

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-20 Thread Alexia Death
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, xianghang liu wrote: > Hi, > > I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C > developer. I am a first-year PhD > student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some > bugs and then implement new > features and my final objective i