Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate [LWN.net]

Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 11, 2011 17:40 UTC (Tue) by prokoudine (guest, #41788)
In reply to: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate by dneary
Parent article: Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

> And it looks like Alexandre Proukoudine is the 5th,
> and is pretty inactive, but still with a few commits a month.

Eeek. No, by no means I'm developer. I mostly maintain Russian translation. Admittedly I did some lousy attempts at porting scripts to new API, but that's about it.

Oyvind Kolas is famously not a GIMP hacker, not until you strap him and torture for a week or two :)

There really are just two active developers: Mitch and Alexia. Sven, Martin and few more new occasional contributors make the other 0.5 developers between them.

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Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 11, 2011 17:48 UTC (Tue) by dneary (subscriber, #55185) [Link]

Well, Oyvind hacks a fair bit on gegl, and it looks like and Martin are both as or more active than Alexia from Ohloh stats, so I'd say 4. Unless you're saying gegl won't be part of the gimp...

Dave.

Sobotka: Why GIMP is inadequate

Posted Jan 11, 2011 18:07 UTC (Tue) by prokoudine (guest, #41788) [Link]

It's a matter of perspective. Oyvind doesn't see himself as GIMP hacker. That's what I heard him articulating multiple times. Good luck persuading him that it's otherwise :)

I'm afraid that you are doing rather quantitative analysis without referring to timeline. Martin hasn't been doing much in Git since last spring. I've been doing weekly digests of changes in Git for about a year, so I kind of watch that. If you are keen referring to Ohloh, look at the timeline and do comparative research re amount of commits for e.g. Martin and Mitch. You'll see what I mean ;)