We were just having a small discussion on irc that really should be discussed here, so I will get it started. Overall, the script and plug-in collection need to be cleaned up. First, it needs to be determined what plug-ins still have active maintainers. If someone out there is bored, it would be a good idea to go through all the plug-ins and contact the listed maintainer to see if they plan to continue maintaining the plug-in. Things will need to be adapted for 1.3 at some point, but Sven will provide information when it is time. But first we need to know what is being maintained. This person should then post a list of plug-ins with active maintainers and those without. Hopefully then other people will step in to take maintainer responsibility for the useful ones. I think most plug-ins without a maintainer will definitely be dropped from the 1.3 release. (How can we release a plug-in as part of the standard GIMP release when no one is willing to maintain it?) Plug-ins probably also need to be grouped into smaller pieces, probably in terms of use. (people who use plug-in z probably also want plug-in y). This will increase the burden of release, but make things available in smaller pieces for people with less space or who want less to compile. All the various scripts need to be evaluated as well. How useful are all those logo scripts, for example? A lot of them are not very user-friendly and offering too many options can overwhelm a new user. Perhaps they should be released as a separate "logo-scripts" package. The main thing is to get active maintainers. There are two few developers working on the main gimp release to handle all the plug-ins too. Also some docs will be needed to help the plug-in maintainers work with the updated GIMP core. We need someone with hacking skills to work on that. I can write, but code is gibberish to me. So this is just to get the serious discussion rolling. bex
