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This comment strikes me as non-constructive. What do you actually want this person to do? Clone themselves? Yes, gimp needs more people working on it to get fea
by asddubs 2y ago
This comment strikes me as non-constructive. What do you actually want this person to do? Clone themselves? Yes, gimp needs more people working on it to get features out faster. Berating the people actually doing the work until they also quit is certainly not helping
- James_K 2y agoWell there are other people working on GIMP. Perhaps someone should look into what they've been doing for the past 20 years. It seems fairly unlikely to me that they didn't have time to do this, so there must be some other cause to the problem which it might be possible to address. And if the problem has already been solved, it might be good to know how that happened to avoid regressing back to the old state. I think it's productive to try and diagnose the cause of issues like this.
- asddubs 2y ago"Perhaps someone should audit these volunteers working on a project for free" It's always easy to handwave away any complexities in a project you know nothing about. It'd be one thing if you had concrete criticisms rather than just going in circles about how you're generally unhappy to an overly patient volunteer, but if your only suggestion is "someone should figure out what's going on", you might as well say nothing.
- James_K 2y agoI think they would be happy to participate in some kind of audit. They surely want to organise their contributions in such a way as to produce the most benefit to the project. As for suggesting someone figure it out, I don't know why it happens and I would like to know. This is why I ask. I think knowing could benefit others and potentially also benefit me.