Looking back at 2021, looking forward at 2022 (Libre Arts)

[Posted January 10, 2022 by corbet]

Here is a comprehensive look on the Libre Arts site at the current state of free software for creative artists.

The other reason is that, with a project like GIMP, it’s hard to do just one thing. The team is constantly bombarded with requests that are mostly doable once you have a team of 10 to 20 full-time developers, which is light years away from where GIMP is now. Which results in a lot of running around between under-the-hood work, UX fixes, featurettes, better file formats support etc. So you give everyone a little of what they want but you end up delaying an actual release because the big stuff still needs to happen.