Re: [Gimp-developer] Getting the recognition that GIMP deserves

[Jeremy Morton <admin game-point net>]

On 10/11/2011 09:51, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Aleksandar Kovac wrote:
>
> > "It's only a dev version, general users won't see it." is a lame excuse on
> > many levels. Is there 'us' and 'them' in open source?
>
> Come on, you are smarter than that. Of course there is "us" and
> "them". Using development versions causes cancer, brings 20 year of
> unluck on your family and kills kittens by thousands. People wo use
> graphics software professionally tend to use apps that produce
> _repeatedly_ consistent output. No dev version _ever_ guarantees that.
> I find it highly distrurbuing that such a simple thing should even be
> explained.

I'm an 'average user' and I'd usually stick to stable releases of stuff 
like GIMP, but come on - 2.6 is two years old now with no single-window 
mode.  Of course I'm using 2.7.  I have no problem with the dodgy splash 
screen using GIMP at home because I'm not uptight, but thinking about it 
I might be a little bit uncomfortable installing it at work.  ;-)  I'd 
agree with those saying such splash screens should probably be avoided, 
even for development versions.

Speaking of 2.6 being old, how accurate is this tasktaste graph?
http://tasktaste.com/projects/Enselic/gimp-2-8

It would seem to suggest there are maybe 1-2 weeks of work left but I 
get the feeling there is more than that.  :-)

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Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)