Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, David Neary wrote:
I have been pretty brutal in chopping a bunch of enhancement
requests today. What's left in the 1.3 milestone is a few bugs
with patches outstanding and about 20 feature requests, most of
whioch are claimed by someone or have patches outstanding.
It would be a really big help if those in the know could please add the
easy-fix keyword whenever they know a bug is easy to fix? A pointer the
relevant file in the source code is always a huge help to those of us less
familiar with the codebase (and that goes for any project).
Agreed. We do use the PATCH keyword for bugs with outstanding
patches attached, which goes a lot of the way to what you are
asking for. When there isn't a fix, easy-fix should be used for
the situation where the fix is described in detail in the
comments.
I dont know if Count Colours is anywhere in the list of bugs Dave
mentioned but the ColorCube Analisys plugin effectively gives this
functionality but unfortanately was only available for GIMP 1.2 on
windows. This seems like it might be a relatively easy feature to get
working but then again I dont really know, and it is probably one of the
features that got bumped.
Sorry Alan, that's one of the ones I bumped. It could be brought
back into the 1.3.x milestone, on the condition that (1) the
Colorcube analysis plug-in is GPL, and (2) someone agrees to
maintain it.
That brings up a major point which should be discussed. One of
the big TODO points to come out of the last gimpcon was that
plug-in distribution needed a complete reworking.
There are several unmaintained plug-ins in the main gimp
distribution, and there are several well-maintained plug-ins
distributed separately. It would be nice to provide just the
core, and have a kind of on-demand plug-in installation process
for other plug-ins (kind of like CPAM does for Perl). Of course,
someone said this all 2 years ago and no-one took it under their
wing.
Including plug-ins in the main gimp distribution requires a
maintainer. If someone says they will maintain it, then it can go
in. The other requirement is that it is of general interest - in
the case of the colorcube analysis plug-in I think that can be
assumed. So please, feel free to re-badge the Count colors bug
as 1.3.x, but in that case, please send a mail to the devel list
requesting a maintainer (also, link to the sources from the bug
report, if the link is not already there).
Thanks,
Dave.
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David Neary,
Lyon, France
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