On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Ingo Lütkebohle <iluetkeb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It varies a bit, of course, but 10 is a good ballpark figure, when counting > both plugins and scripts. > In that case, if the intention is to focus on the scripts/plugins more than anything else, then I feel this might be a reasonable number for a small team to handle manually. > However... We get about one user registered every five minutes. That is, > between 200 and 300 users a day. And those are the *successful* > registrations, i.e., those that pass the text analysis and the captcha. > > This seems to be the root of the spam problem - would we need to have user accounts in the future? If we move forward for integration, I think curated content with no user accounts might be a better option? (Not sure here, just getting ideas on paper) > The forum functionality would be stripped, as I am told that there are > other good venues for such things. > > That said, we should be aware of the fact that commenting on plugins was > sort of an accident (Drupal has comments on anything by default), but > proved unexpectedly popular. I guess having both the plugin download and a > feedback function in the same place was fairly compelling. A replacement > should take that into account, and offers an easily accessible feedback > method that redirects people to the appropriate place. > Again, this appears to really be the root of the problem. We could certainly try allowing comments again on whatever new system (or mod of the old) occurs. > Well... Yes, I agree, but that's a bit besides the point. This is not about > replacing the back-end. We can replace the back-end at our leisure, of > course, if people want that, but its working right now. > > I am talking about replacing the *front-end*, to integrate things more > tightly with the gimp, and improve the user experience. This was a request > that Michael Schumacher made, for example, and that others have also made > in the past. > I agree that this would be fantastic - integration would certainly be a fantastic path moving forward! It would just make sense to clean house overall first to make sure everything was solid before attempting to hook into GIMP in this fashion (plus - Alexandre makes a good point about support across all the OS's/bit-depths. Perhaps a first attempt should be to look at scripts, as they are usually able to run across OS's without a problem (at least script-fu)? -- pat david http://blog.patdavid.net _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
