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

[Alexia Death <alexiadeath gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:05 PM, phanisvara das <listmail phanisvara com> wrote:
> 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."

Keeping up with git is not the same as installing a dev version for
production use! People who build and use git are good the same way as
people using dev versions with full awareness of the caveats are good.
But if somebody suggested installing git at work, the same objection
would apply. Even more so than for dev releases. People who build and
use git need to be at least somewhat aware what is going on in
development and be ready to interact with developers up on finding
bugs. A git snapshot from two hours ago may be obsolete...

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--Alexia