GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)
GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)
[Development] Posted Nov 23, 2015 15:19 UTC (Mon) by corbet
This
Libre Graphics World article looks at the challenges faced by the
20-year-old GIMP project. "If you've been following GIMP's progress
over recent years, you couldn't help yourself noticing the decreasing
activity in terms of both commits (a rather lousy metric) and amount of
participants (a more sensible one).
'GIMP is dying', say some. 'GIMP developers are slacking', say
others. 'You've got to go for crowdfunding' is yet another popular
notion. And no matter what, there's always a few whitebearded folks who
would blame the team for not going with changes from the FilmGIMP branch.
So what's actually going on and what's the outlook for the project?
"