Re: [Gimp-gui] Gimp purpose

[Michal Vašut <xvasutm gmail com>]

To conclude this, it was quiet educational. At the beginning I didn't know nothing (or very little) of how the Gimp development works. I thought it was very random and messy.

Now I know that the Gimp development looks more like guerilla war. Due to lack of resources (money & manpower) separate groups are born and die. Those groups are working on their own goals with some common needs were they cooperate together and their ultimate goal is win the war ( or in this case to improve Gimp).

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There is no point arguing about your contributions. I am dev myself an after all day behind screen, I am happy if I don't need to see it again until next day. So from this point of view I appreciate your work even more.

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Somebody made notice about management and decision making ... I fully agree that those guys often tries to look important, but makes very weird decisions because of their lack of knowledge. But some kind of coordination is needed. Maybe I only don't see it here. Well you guys have 

* these mailing lists were people  from outside can look, but here are more general things (or I guess from what I already read)

* IRC - maybe here are more important talks and planning, but who knows - it's for instant messaging without history

* wiki - yeah, there is lot of stuff, but not very current and what I've found out today, some devs even disagree with some of it (but this is caused probably by this guerilla development)

*Bugzilla - bugs that needs to be fixed some unorganized feature requests

So how can any new volunteer join some of those dev fractions when from outside he / she doesn't know what to expect or what is working on? From outsider point of view, it looks like the Gimp even doesn't need any help.