Re: [Gimp-user] Feature oriented vs. User Oriented development

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Michal Vašut wrote:
> I've got an impression, that devs (or Gimp core devs / management - but not
> only Gimp ones) has priorities to introduce cool new features, which is not
> wrong, but they forget the basics - improve user working quality / make it
> easier for user.

I'll be blunt. People who don't study what we do and who come to teach
us how to do things never achieve a thing. People who get involved,
however, do achieve some great things and make GIMP and its ecosystem
better.

Are you from the former or from the latter group?

> * Blender foundation make decision to create movie
> * They crowdfund it and invite (hire?) artists and developers
> * As artists works they have spcific needs and devs solve them

We kinda sorta know about BF and what they do.

> * Finally:
> ..... The movie is proof what the software is capable of
> ..... The devs and artists gain experience
> ..... The community is happy - they have improved software - new features,
> improved UX, ...
>
> It would be nice, if Gimp community make similar thing. It doesn't need to
> be project, but a collection of userstories / scenarios.

https://www.patreon.com/zemarmot

http://gui.gimp.org/index.php?title=GIMP_UI_Redesign

> There are also tons of  extensions and plugins, but the web (
> http://registry.gimp.org/) is half-working

Not working at all. It's a static website with no maintainer

> and many of those extensions are
> not working. I've seen great concept for Extension manager:
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wmx3OgdATU0/Sziww2F0t5I/AAAAAAAABPE/nxquiNEM6l4/s1600-h/addonsInstaller.png
>
> btw. are there somewhere sources of Gimp registry site, or ERD of it's
> database? It would be nice to create REST API - then anybody could create
> client for those extensions, or even it's own rpository.

Are you volunteering? :)

Alex