On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:34:13PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:20:14PM +0000, Øyvind Kolås wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Jacek Poplawski > > <jacekpoplawski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Charlie De <charliecoeli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Why?? Rupert Weber finished this last September and you promised it would be in > > >> 2.8. Is this how you show respect for the most stellar effort by a new talent? > > >> Shame, truly, shame on you. It's now been 5 years since the issue was first > > >> reported, you're going to add another year even though the work is done. That > > >> is, if you don't break your promise again. Where's your integrity? > > > > > > This is very sad. > > > > I am not among the people working on GIMP itself - in the context of > > GIMP is primarily do work on GEGL - but I can tell both of you that > > this type of email does not serve to motivate any developer. At best > > they ignore it; at worst they get discouraged and decide that spending > > some of their spare time contributing to the common good/free > > software/GIMP is not worth it. > > > interesting, this because when GIMP was being developed by many people > seemingly happily so, it was the quality of the patch or plug-in or the script, > not the flavor of the ass-kissing or the style of the request. > > it is the left brained people (artists and such) who are in need of constant > appreciation and reassurance to happily "do the right thing" or to "continue > to do the job as was described" but the right brained people, the more > technically adept don't need so much of the "obvious appreciation". > > this easy description of two different kinds of people starts to fail when a > "right brained" seems to be needing the reassurance that the artistic sort do > but actually just wants enough credit to continue their work and pay bills and > to participate in the community that they are or have been serving in. > > i have worked with actors, for instance -- in a place where actors should be, > btw. it doesn't take much to tell these creative sort that they are really > doing well, etc etc. no, actually it does take much. it takes familiarity > with their work and knowlege of their improvement. > > interestingly enough, the right-brainers enjoy this also. they often fail to > know how to receive the appreciation. > > something has interfered with the right-brained people having access to both > bugzilla and the source, perhaps. maybe "actors" where they should not be? > > i have been waiting for more than a week for a bug to be closed which should > be closed, for instance. it might be the only way to communicate with the > developers right now, but if the developers are not looking at bugzilla, then > they will probably have to manage upset contributors with patches when they > loose patience and write to this list. > > or, the obviously broken bug reporting interface that has been suggested should > be replaced with one that does what it is supposed to do. > s/left/right/ carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
