On 20 September 2012 11:58, trapDoor <trapdoor6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't understand why did i trigger such reactions. I thought it's > obvious that letting more testers to try out the new code would be > only to the GIMPs benefit - and the best way to do it is to publish it > in the gimp git repo. Whether to keep it in separate branch (obviously > temporarily - I didn't mean forever) or merge right away into master - > that should be decided upon by the devs. My idea was nothing unusual > (many new GIMP features were grown initially in separate branches) - > so what's the fuss? Let me explain you "what is the fuss": There is no one working full time in GIMP. Mitch magically and wonderfully can pull a lot of time each week to go ahead with the codebase -- every few couple of months one or another person can pull to some more constant work, just to not be able to keep with it in another few months. There are however people who can contribute ocasionally, and those can keep a build tree for GIMP master and follow what is happening on master - that is my case -- so once each week or so, I can check new features, see the logs, and I suppose this is the case with most long-time contributors. Putting it in another branch would require me, when comming to this "weekly GIMP hacking" to checkout another branch, build it, maybe overwrite my main unstable-gimp, or have to fuzz around with prefixes and such so that I can run both - I don't know for the others but I simply won't do that. I'd suspect most people following GIMP won't care either. While if I checkout GIMP and it does not build, or has some obvious problem in basic usuablity due to unstable code in master: well, those following GIMP do _know_ it is unstable, so no one should be pissed for it ocasionally not working. And all of them will see the problem, and make an attempt to fix it, in the few hours they have to play along GIMP's code. That is the "fuss". js -><- > > Regards, > Tomasz B. _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
