Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8.1 when?

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 11:15 -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it> wrote:
> 
> Any hint on when GIMP 2.8.1 will be released?
> >
> 
> I know that the idea of timed releases has generally not been well received
> in the past, but I wonder if the GIMP team would agree that timed
> point-releases are a good thing?
> 
> Somehow, after 3.5 years of development, version 2.8 turned out not to be
> perfect. Well, that stuff happens, but there appear to be another 38 bugs
> currently fixed in the 2.8 trunk (assuming my bugzilla-fu is worthy).
> 
> What do release managers think about, say, point releases no longer than
> every 3 months?
> 
> That seems to me like a decent amount of time for users to adopt the
> release and find the low-hanging issues, developers to address the simpler
> nuisances, and reasonable amount of time for people to put up with the
> problems while they wait for the next known release.  Version 2.8 was
> released on May 3; by this schedule, 2.8.1 would have been released around
> August 3.

I completely agree with everything you said. I assume you are
going to help making this happen?

--Mitch