[Gimp-developer] Whether to file bug reports after making several small code modifications?

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

Hi All,

I've been using default babl/GEGL/GIMP for painting for the last several 
months, instead of using my patched version of GIMP. I switched to using 
default GIMP for three reasons:

  * For painting (and probably everything else), default GIMP is faster 
than my patched version of GIMP.

  * I really like the new ability to switch between linear and 
perceptual precision (for example using the new blending/compositing 
mode options for layers and using Curves/Levels), without having to make 
an ICC profile conversion.

  * I want to help debug GIMP code, which is much easier when using 
default GIMP because I don't have to first replicate in default GIMP a 
bug or crash that happened in my patched version of GIMP.

However, recently I've made some small changes to my default GIMP code 
that might mean that I shouldn't be filing *any* bug reports:

  * I reverted the changes that were recently made to the color picking 
dialogs (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783680). I use an 
LCH-based color palette when painting, and I always want to see LCH and 
RGB at the same time. So I reverted these changes.

  * I find it a bit distracting to have Levels and Curves always load 
with the last-used settings 
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792470). So until this 
morning I was reverting the relevant Levels and Curves changes (after 
pulling in the latest GIMP code, my patch to revert these changes no 
longer works, so I need to make a new patch).

  * I switched the primaries used by babl/GEGL/GIMP from sRGB to 
Clay/AdobeRGB, to take better advantage of my monitor's color gamut. 
Thanks to Pippin's rather awesome new color space code, this seems to 
only require making very small changes to one babl file 
(babl/babl-space.c) and two GIMP files (libgimpcolor/gimpcolorprofile.c 
and libgimpcolor/gimprgb.h).

So given the above code changes, should I bother filing new GIMP bug 
reports or not? These code changes seem "small", but I don't have enough 
programming savvy to make a decision on this point.

Best,
Elle