I'm sure it will work even better for GIMP, that being said, consider that krita, it's not that "known", GIMP is a common thing you hear everywhere(in art sites, photography sites, ps "clone", etc). Also there is a big windows-user base(with a nice windows build ready to use), and it's a paing to install krita on Windows(there is not a krita build, you have to get koffice packages, not very tested, i tried but hated the installer) Considering this two things, speeding up development that today seems so slow(and lots of bugs never find a solution) is possible, at least it could take GIMP project somewhere. A full-time worker paid by donations is a nice idea. Maybe the today almost 800 bugs could be reduce to half. >There has recently been much discussion on how long it will take to >finish gimp 2.8, and whether donations could speed this up. > >Krita (KDE's image manipulation program) recently asked its users for >EUR3000 to sponsor one of their old GSOC students to work for 3 months. >they raised over EUR4000 quite quickly. [0] > >I am sure GIMP could raise a similar amount of money with out to much >trouble, and has plenty of old GSOC students to call on. 3 months of >work would make a pretty big shift in release time. > >Might be an interesting experiment. > >sam > >[0] http://krita.org/index.php&option=com_content&id=20 > >PS: i tried posting through gmane's NNTP system, but it never seemed to >get through. is this blocked? > -- Luis Diego (via www.gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
