[Cyrilshark]

I just read that the Gimp team has released their Development Schedule, and with thats come the estimated release date for 2.8!

http://www.chromecode.com/

"There now is a schedule for GIMP 2.8 development and thus also an estimated release date, which right now is 2010-12-27. Creating a schedule was not completely uncontroversial. People pointed out that if we have an estimated release date it will surely be misinterpreted as a definite release date, and if we don't meet it, people will be annoyed. People will probably misinterpret, but that is less worse than the current situation where people speculate about dates that are way too optimistic, giving the impression that we are constantly delayed. Besides, without a schedule it is very hard for us to take decisions on what features to include and what features to not include in each release. I think that in the end having a schedule will only have a positive impact on development."

Is this for real? (:
If it is, it's too bad it's expected for late 2010 (practically as late as you can get.) xD

[lylejk]

That is too bad (avoiding profanity; lol). I hope that will mean true 16-bit capabilities, but still not holding my breath. 2.6x still pretty good though; just wish it wasn't so Win7 64-bit buggy (work around the bugs; loose a lot of works sometimes still though when it locks up and I forget to make a save before then). :)

[fauxonym7]

WHAAT?!

that's a very long time. hope they put some new stuff(read: vectoring. X__X)

[jolie]

I read that a while ago, and downloaded the file with the schedule. (But deleted it later.)

I was more gutted by the planned features they had to drop in order to get a closer release date then the date itself. Don't think full 16 bit editing is planned for 2.8 but am not sure!

[dani.user]

Where could I see to development schedule?

[Cyrilshark]

Yeah I didnt see a download anywhere...?

[jolie]

If I remember correctly Martin Nordholts posted a link in the mailing list. The developers mailing I believe. I read it on gimpusers.com.

edit-
It was this
http://old.nabble.com/GIMP-2.8-schedule ... #a27117447

But you can't download the schedule anymore. Maybe they changed it?

[PhotoComix]

i believe that was more a proposal for a schedule because the real schedule depending on a difficult chose,
if maintain all the objectives planned, and then delay the release time,
or basically focus on making stable all what already works in the experimental versions and postpone other objectives

[Tonttu]

Here's the schedule for reference http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/plain/ ... 9474d9f0fe

[lylejk]

One thing I do hope they implement is node based editing. This is the future of image editing imo. A program that will give you an idea what I'm talking about is the cool Open Source program (see below) that creates textures. Using nodebased editing will be a fantastic step toward's self documented (i.e., lossless if you will) photo editing. Another cool program that does this is the online editor (now all tools are free to use) Aviary effects editor called Pealcock. :)

http://sourceforge.n...neotextureedit/

[Tonttu]

Hey, thanks for those tips! I had forgotten about Aviary, as it was not freeware back when I heard about it.
NeoTextureEdit looks like an o.s. Genetica, which is nice :D
I'm hoping for nodes in Gimp some day, too. After all: "With GEGL you chain together image processing operations represented by nodes into a graph."

[Griatch]

I heard this timeframe some time ago, I got the impression it was well known. They basically pushed it forward as much as they could so as to not to get a pattern of missing the deadlines repeatedly. But apparently it's a LOT of work and some unofficial comments suggests that the dev code is really in a state of flux and instability at this point.
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Griatch

[mangadude5760]

Oh darn. I was hoping for an earlier possible release date but It's cool. We can wait. At least it isn't like two years away. Just several months.

[alexiadeath]

Hi from the dev community ;)

You are getting within that estimate:
- Single window
- Full on canvas text editing (with styles)
- Dynamics and brush system fixes
(Any intuos/artpen owners are gonna love some of the latest stuff in it.)
- lots of general housework, new resources, etc.

Vector layers were pushed out and full 16 bit was never planned for 2.8. Development code is changing daily, so git version from yesterday is too old. Also that schedule is updated when something is done, moving the deadline. Note that its a deadline for an RC, not full stable.

:roll: I'm of to hack some more.

P.S Gegl is graph based and some day there may be graph based adjustment layers(they are planned) but that is unlikely to happen even for 2.10

[lylejk's_alias]

Hope you got your email from me. Meant to respond to your post here many days ago. Really appreciate you posting here Alexia and thanks again for the update. Very much look forward to seeing 2.8 when it gets released (hopefully earlier then the timelines that I've recently seen). :)

[alexiadeath]

Welcome :) People tend to forget that FOSS developers are not some mythical beasts. We are quite ordinary people doing this because its fun. :lol:

[lylejk]

And this forum is all about fun with alias mapping and and such. lol

I'm now myself again. I really like it here at GIMPTalk. Just a bunch of folk sharing their joy with GIMP. I feel right at home here. :)

[PhotoComix]

lylejk i agree with Alexia, FOSS developers are not mythical beasts , look below a gimp developer taking a relaxing break from coding :mrgreen:

[lylejk]

lol; only can come from you PC. Still mad at you though for not bringing GIMP 4.2 back from the future. ;)

:)

[PhotoComix]

in March 2018 i was not too happy about the new telepathic brush system, but i will miss the Wish_Render Plugin