Hi, Patrick McFarland <unknown@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I dont agree with the gimp and film gimp development groups. Film > Gimp should be eventually folded into Gimp 2.0. Having two branches > like this sucks bad. Film Gimp is slowly turning into something > that isnt gimp at all, and I see alot of reinventing of wheels, or > even parrallel development of the same code, because the development > teams dont communicate enough. the point is that the new film-gimp maintainer or any of the people working on film-gimp don't communicate with us at all. The project somehow came back to life without any notification on this mailing-list. We had to hear about it in the news. Among these news that appeared on the internet is a lot of wrong information. To me it looks as if the film-gimp people try to actively spread FUD about the gimp project. > From what I heard, Gimp originally declined a merge with the > hollywood branch, which I see as a serious mistake. this is exactly the wrong information I referred to above. The film-gimp web-site makes you think that the film-gimp people expressed an interest to merge and the gimp people refused to take this into account. This is just plain wrong. It has always been the goal of the GIMP developers to merge the features needed for film-editing into the main GIMP. This has been a major subject on the GIMP developers conference. We were happy to have Caroline and Calvin at the conference who explained the concepts of GEGL as well as the needs of the film industry to us and I'm glad to see that they are still actively developing the GEGL library. I also liked the idea of the new film-gimp project to make the HOLLYWOOD branch available to a larger audience. Building a reasonably functional tarball that everyone can build was a good thing to do. Now people have something to play with and can start improving the gimp core and GEGL so that the main gimp can have these features as well. The direction the film-gimp project is taking at the moment seems like a wasted effort to me. That is my personal opinion and I have strong arguments for it but so far none of the film-gimp developers have asked for it and I will thus keep my arguments for me. Salut, Sven
