Hi, On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:46 +0100, Alex Pounds wrote: > And yet, the Google Summer of Code was quite successful for the Gimp, > wasn't it? It depends on how you look at it. Yes, we had some contributions. But only very few of this has been committed to trunk by now. And out of the two projects that were merged to trunk, only one has been developed further and can stay in for the 2.4 release. The other project has stayed unmaintained ever since the SoC ended. We will have to back it out for the 2.4 release and it is not clear if it will ever be finished so that it can be added back. This may be our fault. But perhaps it shows the danger of bounties. The motivation ends when the bounty is paid. And it demotivates others to work on the project for free. I think what would bring GIMP along most would be to have a small group of paid developers who can work full-time on GIMP. These people would not only implement new features but also devote much of their time helping other contributors and overseeing the bug-tracker and mailing-lists. It would also help a lot to have someone paid to work full-time on the website and the documentation. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
