Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025, TJ wrote:

On 2024-12-30 07:18, D wrote:

  On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, TJ wrote:
 

On 2024-12-28 06:12, D wrote:

  On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
 

On 2024-12-27 18:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:57:55 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
 

Well, I appreciate that I can get gratis a piece of software that is
that good.

 If you think Free Software could be better, and you would rather not give
money to a proprietary company, why not contribute some of that money to
the development of the Free Software and help make it better?

 Especially since projects like KDE and LibreOffice really need it.
 

 Note that money is not the only way to contribute. Even by using the software you contribute, by making others aware of it, you contribute. I actually like projects that are not super wealthy. The linux foundation and firefox are excellent examples of how power corrupts. Would never dream of contributing with money to those two.

 Indeed. My discretionary funds are very limited, so I can not afford to contribute with money. But Mageia, as my distro of choice, is community-based, meaning it is maintained by volunteers who contribute their free time to make it as good as we can.
 I have no coding skills to speak of, so development isn't my forte. But, as the current Leader of the Mageia Quality Assurance (QA) Team, I contribute in other, equally valuable ways.
 We are the layer between the developers and the public, tasked with testing updates before they are released to be as sure as possible that they won't break Mageia systems. Developers are only human, and sometimes mistakes creep in - a missing dependency, or maybe the package won't work on hardware the developer doesn't have. Our job is to catch that stuff.
 We also test the install ISOs before they are released.
 We are always looking for new members, and users of all skill levels are welcome. One of the great things about Mageia is that the opinions of new contributors are received with as much respect as those of our "old hands."
 But those aren't the only ways to contribute. If something in Mageia doesn't work for you, please file a bug report. We also need translators, documentation writers, bug triaging, website designers, the list goes on.
 https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/ is a good place to start if you wish to contribute to our project.
 TJ
 

 How are you trending with volunteers over time? Is it growing?

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I wish I could say it is, but that wouldn't be quite true. Several major contributors left us in 2023, for various reasons. Some were health related, some were because Real Life situations had changed, some were because things weren't progressing as fast as they would have liked.
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Those sorts of things can happen with any community-supported organization, and it just so happened that several issues came together at roughly the same time. However, others have stepped up, and our situation is better now.
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But the need for contributors of all kinds goes on, as it has since we started. I doubt that will ever change.
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TJ

Sorry to hear that, but good to hear that things are at least moving in the right direction. I was curious if it was because of the woke mind virus, but happy to hear that there were other reasons. =)