Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Aditia A. Pratama wrote:

> At that time I also looking for best vfx stuff which run under linux, I
> found out that there's ramenfx but I dunno the progress up until now.

Ramen has a slightly frightening story.

The project started as free software, but the developer failed to
attract new developers and moved to a closed source strategy, while
rewriting internals of the application. This didn't work all the well
either.

After a while his interests changed, and he stopped working on the project.

Since recently he's working on Ramen 2 which seems to be a free
software project again (at least, the code is available on Github),
and he's rewriting things once again.

IMHO, this is going to be an on-and-off activity until some kind of
team gets organized. Being a one-man band is not very sustainable.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org