On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:17 PM, grafxuser wrote: > Hi, > > currently I see the gimp.org news page updated round about one time per > month. > > Why not tell the readers more often about GIMP's progress? Look at > digikam.org. Nearly every week there comes a message, showing what's > possible with Digikam and that the project is still alive. More regular news will come when we have a proper news archival system. > To show this progress for GIMP, you could publish > - which features are done, None in weeks. > - which (severe or important) bugs where fixed, Few > - who provided the most or best bugreports or bugfixes, Information noise > - which bug reports need more info (bugs in state NEEDINFO) Information noise > - which help is currently needed most (with specific tasks), Text duplication > - what are interesting or new plug-ins in the plug-in-registry, Few, but doable > - a feature roadmap, Text duplication > - a link to an interesting article on your website A what? :) > Besides this will save you from answering the same questions in the mailing > list or chat room again and again instead of forcing development. No, it won't > Secondly > you constantly update your release notes instead of having to do this big > job before the next release and telling just a bit more, that there were > tons of bugs fixed for a long time. I didn't understand that one, sorry. > Of course I know your website and your information are public. But who > really wants to dive deeply in a web page, register at a data kraken+, read > lots of mailing list postings, forums, Bugzilla reports, Git commits etc., > if he only wants to know _quickly_, if the project is still alive and what > he can do for the project? He only have to read the front page. It's that simple. > IMHO, the idea to use G**+ is not too good. Ca. 5K users who currently read it don't share your view. > I hope you haven't planned to move there. I fail to understand that one as well. How can we possibly move the whole website there? > On the one hand it's good to regularly post news. But on the > other hand do people, who like to support you, not necessarily like to > register at G**+. They don't have to. > The main entrance to GIMP information should be gimp.org, Which it still is. > like one would expect from a non-commercial project called GIMP. For quick > information rather use the wiki or a public forum at gimp.org, please. *sigh* We kinda already do. No, really. We have a wiki. We maintain it. There's a link to it. It gets visits/ > can also put the mailing list there and people can get in direct contact, You mean we don't? > too. RSS is IMHO a good solution Likewise > Maybe you could put a link to gimpusers.com on the front page. Why? > Also publish your news to news pages of computer and graphics designer > sites (heise.com, Golem, Linux magazine, Deviant art, DOCMA etc.) and > get in touch with their editors. As far as I can tell, they do it on their own accord. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
