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

["phanisvara das" <listmail phanisvara com>]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:19:00 +0530, Jeremy Morton <admin game-point net>  
wrote:

> They are NOT SUPPOSED TO do exactly that! Ever! They may want to, but
> its not a good idea from anybody's perceptive. Development versions
> may for example write incompatible or corrupt files may have features
> that will not be in the final stable release etc... Concrete sample:
> At the beginning of 2.7 cycle layer group masks were enabled. They
> sort of worked but were buggy and deemed too buggy to be fixed in this
> cycle aand thus  were disabled. Now people who used that version in
> some place they shouldn't have have files that no longer work as
> intended in current version of GIMP. No  functionality present in dev
> release is guaranteed to be there in a stable version. Arguing that we
> should use nice splashes so people could shoot themselves in the foot
> is silly.
> Well if you want advanced users to use final releases, perhaps release  
> them more often than once every 2 years?


martin nordholts, in a blog post from 2009 (  
http://www.chromecode.com/2009/12/best-way-to-keep-up-with-gimp-from-git_26.html  
) :

"The more people that use the latest GIMP code from git the better. It  
keeps the required effort to contribute code upstreams small, which in  
turn increases the likelihood of upstream contributions, and it makes bugs  
more vulnerable to early discovery which minimizes their impact."

--
phani.