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GIMP 2.8 releasedGIMP 2.8 releasedPosted May 7, 2012 17:02 UTC (Mon) by Zizzle (guest, #67739)Parent article: GIMP 2.8 released
Has the GIMP team considered time based releases?
It is pretty unappealing to contribute when it can take years for your effort to reach the hands of users.
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GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 7, 2012 17:22 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
That's a good argument in favor of time based releases that I hadn't heard of before.
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 8, 2012 2:51 UTC (Tue) by joedrew (guest, #828) [Link]
That, FWIW, is why Firefox is now using time-based releases.
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 8, 2012 15:20 UTC (Tue) by mikachu (guest, #5333) [Link]
But in return they stopped putting features in the hands of end users :). The second top entry from the release notes of firefox 12 for example proudly proclaims: "Page Source now has line numbers". One is not exactly left in awe.
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 8, 2012 16:40 UTC (Tue) by joedrew (guest, #828) [Link]
To be fair to us (I work on Firefox), 6 weeks is not a long time to develop new features. :)
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 7, 2012 17:35 UTC (Mon) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
It's going to change now, but 2.8 needed to be gotten out first. Not strictly time-based releases AFAIK, but stronger use of git so that branches can be either finished or postponed, not delaying the release forever. "All major new features are now being developed in dedicated Git branches so that you could easily merge our latest upstream changes into your feature branches, and we then could easily review and merge your new features into upstream."
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 7, 2012 18:45 UTC (Mon) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] Now that the move to GEGL has been unexpectedly successful I hope you're thinking about a quick 2.10 release to get that improvement out to users ASAP. It seems to me that it's just too big an improvement to keep under wraps for long.
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 7, 2012 21:40 UTC (Mon) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link]
I'm not involved with GIMP except for doing translations, so I'm just spreading the information. From a casual view contributing to GIMP has been made much easier/modern in the recent year or so, and they've worked to document and visualize things a lot. GIMP needs contributions, it's very under-resourced for the importance it has and compared to some others (like Blender for example), and probably the reasons have been the long development history and culture from there. But now those seem resolved. GIMP has become much more "fresh", the 2.8 is finally out, GEGL has indeed gotten up to speed so hopefully new developers will join!
GIMP 2.8 released Posted May 8, 2012 9:14 UTC (Tue) by prokoudine (guest, #41788) [Link]
We are not planning time based releases. But we are now using Git branches for major new features, so that their incompleteness wouldn't block releases.
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