On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:51:10PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 20:29 +0100, David Odin wrote: > > > > > > Still that narrow minded? You obviously didn't read the drizzt's post > > at all! Drizzt was comparing the linux kernel _user_ interface with the > > gimp's _user_ interface. > > As far as I know the kernel doesn't have a user interface in the sense > the term is used for a graphical user application such as GIMP. It does > provide a lot of interfaces to device drivers and to the higher levels > of the operating system though. And these interfaces are changing quite > frequently. > I won't say that the syscalls or the /proc interfaces are changing that frequently. And when they change, the older behaviour is still available as an option. A device driver isn't really a user of the kernel, but a part of it. Whatever. > Perhaps this was a misunderstanding. I don't really understand the > purpose of the Linux kernel example. > > > Well, of course, everything could be better if more people would be > > even allowed to work on gimp. But I guess this won't happen since even > > confirmed former contributors aren't even allowed to commit trivial > > patches without having to explain many times what these patches do, and > > pass many many controls. > > No idea what you are referring to here. Can you explain to me what you > are talking about? Of course there is a patch review process. It would > be insane not to have one. But we are trying hard to review patches very > fast. Did you really have to wait an unreasonable time to have your > patches reviewed? > No. I won't explain all that once more since having to explain the same thing over and over instead of doing the real work is precisely why I have quit the gimp development. And it is also why the gimp development is so slow. I now prefer to give my time to some more attractive projects. I'm still a gimp user, though and I'm very desapointed to see which directions it takes. At least, I'm still able to maintain my own private tree when I want a special feature that won't get in because it would just take years to explain to every one why it is useful to me. -- <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
