Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Discontinuation of mailing lists and moving to Discourse

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi!

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 3:25 AM Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop ntlworld com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 10:00:24PM +0200, Jehan Pagès via
> gimp-developer-list wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 9:48 PM Rick Strong <rnstrong primus ca> wrote:
> >
> > > So if I want to ask a question about using GIMP, or respond to a
> question,
> > > how do I do it?
> >
> > Well basically same as you always did, except that now it will be on one
> of
> > the Discourse instances, such as the pixls.us one or the GNOME one.
> Instead
> > of being subscribed to a mailing list, it's on Discourse (which is
> > basically a modern-time forum, as I see it), on which you'd have a
> > login/account. :-)
> >
> > Jehan
>
> As a linux user, this feels like a retrograde step (there are ways
> of running mailing lists without python2, such as sympa, although
> they tend to work sub-optimally).  But it is outside my, and your,
> control so thanks for the forewarning.
>
> I guess that if I have any questions in the future I'll use
> https://discuss.pixls.us in the hope that I might get indications of
> how to do something (I'm logged in there on one of my machines, I
> get mails every week or so with topics since I last visited - most
> of which seem to be about non-interesting *to me* software).
>
> This might be my last post here, so I'll say thanks to the people
> who have helped me on -user over the years, and to the devs who have
> made 2.10 what it is - yes, I'd like to use 2.99 but I also want
> script-fu and g'mic plugins so I guess I'll be staying on 2.10 for a
> while.

Script-fu is still available in 2.99 and nowadays we get a very active
contributor for it. So it's even improving. :-)

As for G'MIC, it is available for GIMP 2.99 too, though maybe not on all
platforms, and it probably "breaks" at nearly every dev release (as we
progressively change the API here and there). So there is indeed often a
short span of time where it's non-available. Of course, not advising you to
use 2.99 either as it's still marked as "unstable" releases (so to be used
carefully), but just saying that these 2 points are not hugely broken and
there is no doubt to me that they will will be available with GIMP 3.0 (and
no API break for a long time then!). :-)

Jehan


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