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[gimp-web] More old news items (down to 2011-03-18)

commit 09e388783f65d3dc96f8d5c4963ded151efa0996
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Sun Nov 22 19:26:57 2015 +0300

    More old news items (down to 2011-03-18)

 content/news/2011-03-18 GSoC2011 Participation.md  |    6 ++++++
 content/news/2011-04-04 Tasktaste.md               |    8 ++++++++
 content/news/2011-04-15 GIMP 2.7.2.md              |   10 ++++++++++
 .../news/2011-04-26 GSoC2011 Projects Announced.md |   14 ++++++++++++++
 content/news/2011-05-06 Two New Books.md           |    8 ++++++++
 content/news/2011-07-20 GSoC2011 Midterm.md        |   10 ++++++++++
 content/news/2011-08-14 GPU-Side Rendering News.md |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 content/news/2011-08-22 GIMP 2.7.3.md              |   14 ++++++++++++++
 content/news/2011-09-17 GSoC2011 Over.md           |   10 ++++++++++
 content/news/2011-10-16 Outage.md                  |   12 ++++++++++++
 .../news/2011-10-18 FTP and Wiki Back Online.md    |    9 +++++++++
 .../news/2011-10-21 Docs and DevPages Restored.md  |    9 +++++++++
 content/news/2011-10-26 Mailing Lists Moved.md     |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 ...11-11-28 AMD Sponsors Work on OpenCL in GEGL.md |   10 ++++++++++
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-03-18 GSoC2011 Participation.md b/content/news/2011-03-18 GSoC2011 
Participation.md
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+Title: We Are Participating in Google Summer of Code 2011
+Date: 2011-03-18
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+This year we are participating in the [Google Summer of Code](http://socghop.appspot.com/) program again. If 
you are a student who is willing to improve GIMP and be financially rewarded ($5000), please have a look at 
the [list of project ideas](http://gimp-wiki.who.ee/index.php/Hacking:GSoC_2011/Ideas), pick one or come up 
with your own idea, then join [#gimp](http://www.gimp.org/irc.html) IRC channel or [gimp-developer 
](https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list) mailing list and introduce yourself.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-04-04 Tasktaste.md b/content/news/2011-04-04 Tasktaste.md
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+Title: Progress of GIMP development is now trackable
+Date: 2011-04-04
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+One of the most common questions we keep hearing is when the next version of GIMP is released. While it's 
difficult to define exact dates, it is possible to estimate how far away a new stable release from now is 
based on amount of work that has to be done. We intend to make development of GIMP as transparent as 
possible, so Martin Nordholts, our core team developer, created a web app that adds previously missing alpha 
channel to development process. If you want to track progress of v2.8 at any given time, please use [this 
page](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8) for 
reference.
+
+We have also finally revived the [development wiki](http://wiki.gimp.org/) that contains introductional 
information for newly joined developers. Since we are still quite short-handed, that documentation should 
come in handy for anyone willing to make GIMP 2.8 a reality sooner than currently expected.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-04-15 GIMP 2.7.2.md b/content/news/2011-04-15 GIMP 2.7.2.md
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+Title: GIMP 2.7.2 Released
+Date: 2011-04-15
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+We are pleased to announce availability of a new development version that brings us closer to GIMP 2.8. This 
version is packed with important new features and improvements. For a complete list of changes since 2.7.1 
please refer to [NEWS](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS) page, while 
the [release notes](http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html) summarize changes in the whole 2.7.x 
series.
+
+Please note that the whole 2.7.x series of versions is considered unstable and is not recommended for use in 
production even though it might just work for you. Our intention is to make development versions available 
for passionate users who can provide useful feedback to help us fix bugs and streamline implementation of 
some of the new features. The upcoming v2.8 also introduces a huge amount of API deprecations and additions 
that have the potential to break existing 3rd party scripts and plug-ins. Please file bugs for all plug-ins 
and scripts that do work in v2.6, but don't work in 2.7.2. A migration guide for developers will be provided 
when v2.8 is out.
+
+There is still a lot of work to do on v2.8. Please refer to 
[this](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8) page to 
find out what the current estimation of v2.8 release is, and what bugs you can help us fixing to make the new 
stable version happen sooner.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-04-26 GSoC2011 Projects Announced.md b/content/news/2011-04-26 GSoC2011 
Projects Announced.md
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+Title: Google Summer of Code 2011 Projects Announced
+Date: 2011-04-26
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+We are pleased to announce that we have five projects accepted for Google Summer of Code 2011 program:
+
+* [Adaptive 
cloning](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/lightningismyname/6001)
 will provide means to paste an object from a different picture in a way that it will seamlessly blend into 
the new image, matching its brightness and color characteristics. This will be a very useful tool for users 
who do a lot of photo manipulation.
+* [New GimpSizeEntry 
widget](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/enrico_schroeder/12001)
 will place unit selection inside the widget. The project will also bring major refactoring to the code.
+* [The iWarp 
filter](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/michael_mure/5001)
 as a tool project will make it possible to apply various local transformations right on canvas.
+* [Porting GIMP plugins to GEGL 
operations](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/robert_sasu/17001)
 will boost long anticipated transition to GEGL.
+* The [OpenCL in 
GEGL](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/victor_matheus/8001)
 project will bring to GEGL automatic memory management and migration of tiles between GPU and CPU, as well 
as possibility to write GEGL operations in OpenCL.
+
+We are wishing our students success with their respective projects and we are looking forward to working 
with them.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-05-06 Two New Books.md b/content/news/2011-05-06 Two New Books.md
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+Title: Two New Books on GIMP Published
+Date: 2011-05-06
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+Two new books on GIMP have been published recently. ["GIMP 2.6 
Cookbook"](https://www.packtpub.com/gimp-2-6-cookbook/book), in English, by Juan Manuel Ferreyra is a 
collection of straightforward instructions that will help you accomplishing typical design and photography 
related tasks. This book is packed with answers to get you preparing great images with the GIMP immediately.
+
+["GIMP"](http://www.pearson.fr/livre/?GCOI=27440100358850), in French, by Olivier Lecarme and Karine Delvare 
is, on the contrary, a complete user guide and a reference to GIMP features. The book explains basics of 
digital imaging, retouching photos, creating animations, preparing pictures for publishing on the Web etc.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-07-20 GSoC2011 Midterm.md b/content/news/2011-07-20 GSoC2011 Midterm.md
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+Title: All GSoC Students Passed Midterm Evaluation
+Date: 2011-07-20
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+We are glad to announce that all of our Google Summer of Code students have passed midterm evaluation. All 
the code is being maintained in respective Git branches of GEGL and GIMP.
+
+As a reminder, this year Google Summer of Code is bringing us two new tools, Seamless Clone and Warp 
Transform, several GEGL operations, support for OpenCL based rendering in GEGL, and a new widget for size 
entry.
+
+We also reviewed projected date of GIMP 2.8 release, and it still looks like end of 2011. This version is 
going to introduce dramatic user interface improvements as well as a multitude of new features including new 
Cage Transform tool and much more sophisticated painting options.
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-08-14 GPU-Side Rendering News.md b/content/news/2011-08-14 GPU-Side Rendering 
News.md
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+Title: On GPU-side Rendering and Further Development Plans
+Date: 2011-08-14
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+While GEGL gradually replaces GIMP's old core, it's time for us to consider long-term strategy for improving 
performance. The trend these days seems to be a combination of multithreading, GPU-side processing and 
networks. Most of that can be handled thanks to OpenCL standard by Khronos Group.
+
+Back in 2009 we already had a Google Summer of Code project by Jerson Michael Perpetua who introduced basics 
of GPU-side rendering to GEGL. This year we have even more progress. Another GSoC student, Victor Oliveira, 
has been working on support for OpenCL in GEGL since late May. If you are interested in details, please read 
his latest [report](http://meudepositodeideias.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/opencl-on-gegl-results-up-to-now/).
+
+The upcoming GIMP v2.8 isn't going to do GPU-side rendering and processing, because it's simply too late for 
this development cycle. The next version, v2.10, is going to feature all of our other GSoC projects this year 
and more API cleanup. With v3.0 we are doing the final switch to GEGL, and this is where we currently expect 
OpenCL support in GEGL to be mature enough to be used. For more details please refer to our [feature 
roadmap](http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap).
+
+We aim to make GIMP a state of the art image editing tool. We know that our past approach to development of 
new versions didn't exactly encourage contributions that helped making it happen. This is why starting with 
v2.10 we are switching to a shorter development cycle. In other words, new stable versions will have less new 
features and will get released sooner, helping us to process queue of incoming new features much faster.
+
+All major new features are now being developed in dedicated Git branches so that you could easily merge our 
latest upstream changes into your feature branches, and we then could easily review and merge your new 
features into upstream. If the new proposed workflow sounds appealing to you, and you are interested to 
contribute to the project, please let us know.
+
+In the mean time we are preparing another development version of GIMP with quite a lot of fixes gathered 
over last 4 months. Stay tuned for more news.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-08-22 GIMP 2.7.3.md b/content/news/2011-08-22 GIMP 2.7.3.md
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+Title: GIMP 2.7.3 Released
+Date: 2011-08-22
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+We are pleased to announce availability of a new development version that brings us closer to GIMP 2.8. This 
version is packed with important new features and improvements.
+
+The most visible changes in 2.7.3 are the fully working single-window mode, including working session 
management, and the introduction of a new hybrid spinbutton/scale widget which takes less space in dockable 
dialogs.
+
+For a complete list of changes since 2.7.2 please refer to [NEWS](http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS) page, 
while the [release notes](http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html) summarize changes in the whole 
2.7.x series.
+
+Please note that the whole 2.7.x series of versions is considered unstable and is not recommended for use in 
production even though it might just work for you. Our intention is to make development versions available 
for passionate users who can provide useful feedback to help us fix bugs and streamline implementation of 
some of the new features. The upcoming v2.8 also introduces a huge amount of API deprecations and additions 
that have the potential to break existing 3rd party scripts and plug-ins. Please file bugs for all plug-ins 
and scripts that do work in v2.6, but don't work in 2.7.3. A migration guide for developers will be provided 
when v2.8 is out.
+
+There is still a lot of work to do on v2.8. Please refer to 
[this](https://web.archive.org/web/20120801115204/http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8) page to 
find out what the current estimation of v2.8 release is, and what bugs you can help us fixing to make the new 
stable version happen sooner.
diff --git a/content/news/2011-09-17 GSoC2011 Over.md b/content/news/2011-09-17 GSoC2011 Over.md
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+Title: GSoC2011 is Over
+Date: 2011-09-17
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+Google Summer of Code 2011 is over, and all of our students have successfully finished their respective 
projects. All of the code is available in Git repositories, but not all of it is going to be part of the next 
released versions of GEGL and GIMP. Here is why.
+
+Both new tools, [Seamless 
Clone](http://lightningismyname.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-demo-of-my-gsoc-project.html) and [Warp 
Transform](http://pellelatarte.fr/en/2011/07/gimp-warp-tool-cest-la-mi-parcours/), as well as new size entry 
widget are too late to become part of 2.8. We are planning to make them part of 2.10, when they are better 
tested for reliability and usability. The OpenCL project needs more work to become part of GEGL's main 
development branch. However the project to port more [GIMP filters to GEGL 
operations](http://sasurobert.github.com/GSoC-2011/) is already part of master branch in GEGL and will be 
available in the next version of GEGL.
+
+Some of our students are taking a well deserved break from GSoC or are back to study, while others continue 
hacking on their projects. Michael Muré recently started work on undo/redo support in the Warp Transform tool 
and works now on extending GEGL's capabilities regarding transformations. Barak Itkin continues working on 
his Seamless Paste tool and intends to make it usable with larger images as well as fix some bugs and make it 
more flexible. Victor Oliveira keep working on his OpenCL/GEGL project as well.
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-10-16 Outage.md b/content/news/2011-10-16 Outage.md
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+Title: Mailing list, FTP and Documentation Outage
+Date: 2011-10-16
+Category: News
+Authors: Michael Schumacher
+
+Due to relocation onto a different server, the following services are currently not available:
+
+* Mailing lists (lists.xcf.berkeley.edu)
+* FTP Downloads (ftp.gimp.org)
+* Documentation (docs.gimp.org)
+* Developer website (developer.gimp.org)
+* Developer Wiki (wiki.gimp.org)
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-10-18 FTP and Wiki Back Online.md b/content/news/2011-10-18 FTP and Wiki Back 
Online.md
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+Title: FTP and Wiki Back Online
+Date: 2011-10-18
+Category: News
+Authors: Michael Schumacher
+
+We managed to get FTP and Wiki back online:
+
+* FTP Downloads ([ftp.gimp.org](ftp://ftp.gimp.org/))
+* Developer Wiki ([wiki.gimp.org](http://wiki.gimp.org/))
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-10-21 Docs and DevPages Restored.md b/content/news/2011-10-21 Docs and 
DevPages Restored.md
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+Title: Online Docs and Developer Pages Restored
+Date: 2011-10-21
+Category: News
+Authors: Michael Schumacher
+
+The online docs and developer pages are available again:
+
+* Online Docs ([docs.gimp.org](http://docs.gimp.org/))
+* Developer Pages ([developer.gimp.org](http://developer.gimp.org/))
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-10-26 Mailing Lists Moved.md b/content/news/2011-10-26 Mailing Lists Moved.md
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+Title: Mailing Lists Moved to GNOME Mailing List Server
+Date: 2011-10-26
+Category: News
+Authors: Michael Schumacher
+
+Our mailing lists have moved to the GNOME list server. All previously subscribed users have automatically 
been added to the new lists.
+
+The old list mail addresses are no longer valid, please use the new ones from now–note that in addition to 
the changed domain, the list names got a "-list" appended to them.
+
+The subscription management pages are accessible via the following links:
+
+* [gimp-developer-list](http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list)
+* [gimp-user-list](http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list)
+* [gimp-docs-list](http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list)
+* [gimp-web-list](http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list)
+* [gegl-developer-list](http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gegl-developer-list)
+
+The list archives will be restored at gnome.org as soon as we get the files.
+
+The gimp-announce, gimp-film, and gimp-win-user lists don't exist any longer.
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diff --git a/content/news/2011-11-28 AMD Sponsors Work on OpenCL in GEGL.md b/content/news/2011-11-28 AMD 
Sponsors Work on OpenCL in GEGL.md
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+Title: AMD Sponsors Further Work on OpenCL Support in GEGL
+Date: 2011-11-28
+Category: News
+Authors: Alexandre Prokoudine
+
+Victor Oliveira, our GSoC2011 student, is going to continue his work on getting OpenCL support in GEGL for 
hardware accelerated rendering and computations. AMD got interested in the project and agreed to sponsor it.
+
+The plan is to implement GPU-side color conversions and compositing operations, as well as some basic 
filters. Victor is also planning to create a simple API for development of new OpenCL based filters for GEGL.
+
+Currently estimated deadline is March 2012. GIMP already has an optional GEGL based projection rendering as 
well as an experimental tool to test GEGL operations, so hopefully we are going to see some exciting 
performance improvements soon.
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