Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla

2007-03-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
You're right, and I appologize for drawing hasty/wrong conclusions, my prejudices were wrong. Check out this awesome Ruby script though, it produces some rather interesting output nevertheless. Martin :Manish Singh skrev: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:36:52PM +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: >>

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Lowry
Peter, I'm glad you've become the ambassador for this. Your description of a loupe is basically what I was proposing in my original bugzilla proposal #409802 ( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409802 ). Rather than add another proposal, why not just flesh out the details of your vision

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread cedric GEMY
yep, Gimp's team has its own reputation : not very opened to outside things. may be this is not completely true, for examplegimp's team has been opened to join LGM instead of going on with the GimpCons. I guess nobody is responsible and everyone can be. The fact can Gimp is a quite huge and com

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was:?Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Simon Budig
Hi. Shlomi Fish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It took me 10 minutes to write. Oh wow. Is it just me or is this really a *lot* of time? Personally I'd consider answering 6 "lazy questions" per hour a waste of time. (Sorry for not replying to all of your mail - this just stuck out to me) Bye,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Simon Budig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:21:23 +0100, Michael Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> It is not really hard - and that is to you Mitch, you Sven, you Nomis, > >> to simply remember the person on the other side is still a human > >> being, is not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re:Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Natterer
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:00 -0700, William Skaggs wrote: > Acually the thing that struck me was that the answer from Mitch > was not only a little rude (which is unusual for Mitch), it was > also a bad answer -- it doesn't make sense to download the source > code just to find out what language it i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzil la - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Mitch and everybody! On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Michael Natterer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:35 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > > It is not really hard - and that is to you Mitch, you Sven, you Nomis, > > to simply rememebr the person on the other sidee is sitll a human > > bei

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Ori Bernstein
(oops, sent privately: resending to list) On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:35:30 -0300, "Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You see, the GIMP is not exactly with exceeding developer resources, > and every single person I see trying to approach the project either > here or over bugzi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla

2007-03-20 Thread Manish Singh
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:36:52PM +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > GIMP is a widely used piece of software, if one compares to other pieces > of FLOSS, there are often many more contributors at other, similar > projects. Doesn't anyone find that strange? I don't believe this is true. Can you back

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla

2007-03-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
I really would like to add my point of view to this discussion, sorry for messing up threading (I had daily digests until just now) I understand the reply was not in any way meant to be offensive mitch, but I, as I have stated before on IRC, also think that not very rarely replies to people who mi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 3/20/07, Akkana Peck wrote: > If there's no easy-to-find FAQ document, then is it fair to get mad > at people for asking FAQs? Currently gimp.org is in process of redesigning. I think that adding another todo with regards to FAQ would be one step closer to being percieved as nice people by mer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Akkana Peck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Come on, that is simply a rude accusation. > > Is it rude? It seems perfectly reasonable and polite to me. Interestingly > Sven seems to find this highly offensive as well. May be you think taking > offense somehow negates the criticism. It seems you both are not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-20 Thread peter sikking
Chris, > First off, I want to apologize - it's not my intention to be > combative, and I can be a total ass sometimes. don't worry, I am also fired up about this one. here is why: people have talked to me a week or more ago on the irc along the line of: "what's the big deal, one way or another w

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re:Tools

2007-03-20 Thread William Skaggs
Acually the thing that struck me was that the answer from Mitch was not only a little rude (which is unusual for Mitch), it was also a bad answer -- it doesn't make sense to download the source code just to find out what language it is written in. Now if the first thing that occurs to *Mitch* is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread gg
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:21:23 +0100, Michael Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is not really hard - and that is to you Mitch, you Sven, you Nomis, >> to simply remember the person on the other side is still a human >> being, is not it? Not less human for having less abilities to >> compil

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3/19/07, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We aren't using cairo yet. But I don't see what you would want to use > gdk_draw_drawable() for. OK - I have more to learn! > app/dialogs/dialogs.c, IIRC Thanks. Chris ___ Gimp-developer mailing li

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
There is a practice within OO bugzilla management (at least with some QA persons) to 1. thank the bug reporter for his work - whether it is useless from a developer's POV or not. 2. if it is a well-known bug or the problem should be known from FAQ or other online document, the link to this docu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:28:49 +0100, Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Simon, where does that forbid one to add words > > like "thanks", "please", "would" and etc... to even a short answer, > > like a FAQ URL??? > > Nothing forbids

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Natterer
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:35 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > It is not really hard - and that is to you Mitch, you Sven, you Nomis, > to simply rememebr the person on the other sidee is sitll a human > being, is not it? Not less human for having less abilities to > compile/hack compli

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Simon Budig
Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2007 08:11, Simon Budig wrote: > > > IMHO, refraining from posts like this could greatly improve the > > > atmosphere of this list. > > > It is really up to you to help  somebody with answering his > > > question or not to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: "Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You see, the GIMP is not exactly with exceeding developer resources, > and every single person I see trying to approach the project either > here or over bugzilla gets a rude answer that might have turned then > away for good. There are can

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:35 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > Simon, where does that forbid one to add words > like "thanks", "please", "would" and etc... to even a short answer, > like a FAQ URL??? Feel free to add those, no one forbids it. But seriously, the question was stupid