Re: [Gimp-developer] Please migrate to GitHub/CMake

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> I see some problems with GIMP development:
>
> 1. It's been taking too long to release new major versions.
>
> 2. There has been a problem to attract new developers and contributors.
>
> 3. GIMP is lacking many features that are present in similar proprietary
> programs.
>
> 4. Some people still complain on GIMP being hard to use.
>
> 5. A personal pet peeve - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781340
> (minor problem).
>
> ----------
>
> So there's certainly room for improvement and it won't be a good idea not to
> seek out ways to improve it. I'm not saying that moving to github and/or cmake
> is the way to go, but we still should try to improve.

We recognize the issues that you listed above. There is little we can
do about 1), 2) and 3) until 2.10 and 3.0 are out. 4) is an uphill
battle that will never stop. There seems to be some progress on 5) as
far as I can tell.

Alex