Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 11/21/2014 09:43 AM, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Elle Stone
> <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> > Again, my apologies for being snippy. Hopefully I haven't bored you all to
> > tears trying to explain problems with editing in the unbounded sRGB color
> > space.
> >
> > For personal reasons (time constraints), I'm at least temporarily
> > unsubscribing from various mailing lists, including this one.
> >
> > GIMP is amazing and I feel very honored that you all have allowed me to work
> > with you on GIMP color management.
>
> Based on some of the last few exchanges it seems like you are in
> almost complete agreement with the babl part of the "babl roadmap",
> and only disagree on some of the direction GEGL should be taking once
> the babl roadmap has been implemented, and the results of added
> capabilities to babl start propagating through GEGL and GIMP. We've
> spent much energy discussing the future instead of making it happen. I
> hope you've got the energy to continue help us in more productive ways
> once we've got more of those plans in place.
>
> /pippin

Once things are in place, I would love to continue working towards 
improving GIMP color management. Hopefully by the time spring rolls 
around those "time constraints" I mentioned might have loosened up a bit.

As to whether or how much the discussions in the last month have been 
productive, well, that's a point on which there would be probably be 
considerable disagreement.

Best regards,
Elle