Alex, Thanks for putting together this report, I know it's a lot of work and never much fun. I was very intrigued by the opening remarks and "lessons learned" re: more frequent releases. In this spirit, I would like to resurrect a long dead thread, reference: https://marc.info/?l=gimp-developer&m=134556216910609&w=2 At that time, Mark Shuttleworth was advocating that all FOSS projects adopt a timed release process like Ubuntu's 6-month cycle. I believe Fedora does this. One of his arguments was that regular releases makes planning easier for distributors, but from your report I think that GIMP developers also see the value in regular incremental releases. In that thread from 2012 I proposed a 3-month release cycle. This is, and was, a slightly slower pace than that used by the Linux kernel. The number is arbitrary but I still think the results will be worthwhile. With 3 releases in 2019, a 4-month process may be a good place to start. There are issues and challenges to doing this, and I think there are answers to both, but I suggest this only to see if the interest is real. Chris PS - I use GIMP infrequently these days, but +1 on suggestion for a better text tool. Given recent font tech (ligatures, font feature settings), it seems something similarly sophisticated may be warranted here as well. Perhaps direct import of HTML+CSS makes the most sense, even if it means bundling an entire browser engine ... then maybe even a text edit tool written in Electron? That can use browser-based editors? Short justification: the web is defining modern typography, and raster applications need to compete. Embrace and subsume... On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 4:19 AM Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-developer-list <gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Our annual GIMP/GEGL report is out: > > https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/01/04/gimp-and-gegl-in-2019/ > > Enjoy :) > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
