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GIMP 1.3.17 Released

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2003-07-24 23:25. GIMP

Lots of new features are being added while the GIMP developers are preparing for camp and GIMP is approaching feature freze. Time for you to try the latest development version which should also be available from a mirror close to you.

developer.gimp.org gets a faceliftBorrowing the look from mmmaybe.gimp.org, developer.gimp.org
has been redesigned. Content still needs to be added but there's hope
that the new site will allow to provide more information about GIMP
development and eventually attract more developers.

Overview of Changes in GIMP 1.3.17
==================================
- Changed all(?) references to GIMP-1.4 to GIMP-2.0 [Sven]
- Allow to transform paths using the transform tools [Mitch]
- Added a simple CMYK color selector [Sven]
- Added naive RGB CMYK conversion routines [Sven]
- Generalized paint tools [Mitch]
- Finally a brush-shaped cursor for all paint tools [Mitch]
- Started to integrate new composite functions [Helvetix]
- Made the style for dockable tabs configurable [Mitch]
- Some preparations for text transformations and vectors from text [Sven]
- Store grid settings in XCF [Brix]
- Redone assembly checks and run-time checks for CPU features [Sven]
- Added lots of mnemonics to the menus [Jimmac]
- Support for comments in PNG files [Sven]
- Constified the libgimp API and adapted all plug-ins [Yosh, Sven]
- Cleaned up the brush/font/gradient/pattern selector API [Mitch]
- Support for patterns with alpha channel [Bolsh]
- Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors:
Eric Pierce, Joao S. O. Bueno, Alastair M. Robinson, Tor Lillqvist

Re: GIMP 1.3.17 Released

Submitted by kelvin on Fri, 2003-07-25 16:02.

That road map is almost three years old, and so is the interview. The fact is that 1.3.17 contains way more features, polish and under-the-hood architectural changes than the old roadmap had planned for 1.4. The decision to bump the version number to 2.0 was made by the two primary GIMP maintainers: Sven and Mitch. Let's quote some more from the Gimp-devel mailing list:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/gimp-1.3$ grep mitch ChangeLog | wc -l
1174
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/gimp-1.3$ grep Sven ChangeLog | wc -l
1004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/gimp-1.3$ grep '^[^ ]' ChangeLog | wc -l
2724

So between them they're responsible for 2178/2724 commits in the 1.3 branch, or 80%. Granted not all of those are commits - so it's probably more like 75%.

Third place is 109 (yosh). Then comes Maurits with 108, then (in no particular order) nomis, myself [David Neary], pedro, rockwalrus, jimmac, Hans Breuer, Daniel Egger, sjburges, Raphael and tml. That brings us down to people who have 10 commits or fewer in the last 3 years. That's it - over 90% of the stuff in 1.3 has been written by 14 people, and the vast majority of that has been written by 2 people.

Further, the "summary" you're quoting is nothing more than a list of the people who happened to raise their voices on gimp-devel. As you can see, very few of the core maintainers are even on there.

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