I imagine another volunteer would come along, just like I did. That's the nature of an open source community project. Since I started, I've seen more developers

I imagine another volunteer would come along, just like I did. That's the nature of an open source community project. Since I started, I've seen more developers join and work on their niche (building pipelines, text tool, plug-ins, etc). I know that one of the behind-the-scenes things that Jehan (the maintainer) has been working on is establishing a foundation in partnership with GNOME. This will allow for easier methods of accepting donations, and developer grants to fund more sustained developer work. That obviously takes away from his coding time (and he's a much, much better programmer than I am!), but long term it will be very beneficial. Part of the GIMP 3.0 delay is due to those kinds of set-up work, where it's not immediately visible but will speed up future development. For the shape tool, I think it'll be fairly quick once vector layers are implemented. At a high level, we'd just need to have some predefined vector layer shapes that users could manipulate. The functionality is there (one example: https://fosstodon.org/@CmykStudent/112063520232390856 https://fosstodon.org/@CmykStudent/112063520232390856), the UI would be the sticking point.