On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 2:25:23 AM IST Miguel Lopez wrote:
> There's no way to get all the data in time as it would take a while to
> extrapolate all the comments in the internet, but I'll tell you that
> with reddit for example, there has been less positive responses with
> GIMP funding needs than say other rapid developed open source project
> overall (at least I seen a person want GIMP as a dead project because he
> had enough of stagnating development, and then there's another who won't
> donate to GIMP developers because he doesn't see the point of supporting
> a stagnating project).

Take the reddit comments with a pinch of salt, Krita Inkscape and GIMP all
have some users who hate them or think that the devs are doing it wrong.
We wouldn't want to discourage the existing developers by taking some strange
troll reddit users comment seriously. They have the right to have their
opinion but don't generalise it.

> In comparison with Affinity Photo, and Krita,
> GIMP is behind and GIMP has been developed for 15+ years and have loads
> of web support over the years. And the amount of visitors to GIMP
> tutorials has decreased over time.

Actually if you try GIMP 2.9 there are loads of feature in it. but it is not
yet available in the distribution channel, it is still in beta, although you
can use it without any problem. It has high bit depth support, good painting
tools, and yesterday they added a new blend mode called passthrough to improve
psd compatibility. See not a stangnant or dead project. Just because the
reddit user is ignorant and not competent enough to look into the development
going on in the project, doesn't mean it is dead.

I agree that they take their time, but the reason for that is they have less
developers to work on things like any other opensource software. We can't
expect a dozen of developers competing against the speed of may be thousand
developers working in an assembly line styled development model backed with
immense money of propreitary software. Have patience is all I can say :)

> Basically, the potential of getting
> funds reduces over time,

That partly may be because opensource projects don't have a PR or marketing
team, somehow we fall short in communicating or generating the buzz. May be
learning from libreoffice marketing team or blender foundation may help?


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