Hi,

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Joseph Bupe wrote:

Hi developers,

I want to request for the possibility of handling passport-size photos in Gimp.

There is a script I found at https://app.box.com/shared/67un4fo45v that does just that, but maybe implementing this in Gimp main branch will help improve its usability and attract more users working with passports and visa printing etc.

This is probably a nice script (I haven't tested it but you say so in the forum thread), but the problem is always the same: we don't have enough core developers to maintain new scripts and plugins within the main branch. So unless someone wishes to actively support such a script within the main branch (and prove it by first actively maintaining it outside of the main branch, with regular bug fixes, feature request handling, and port to GEGL if needed), we can't just take new scripts inside the main tree.

The second issue is that there are a lot of awesome plugins out there, but which ones definitely deserves to be in as default we-have-to-support-it features, and which one are more to be considered "optional" for some specific use cases (so out of the main tree)? That's a difficult question.
I'm not sure if ID photo handling is definitely something to be considered as a default feature (though it's true most people does id photos regularly in their life, stubborn administration pushes us to not do it ourselves by refusing them).

Regards,

Jehan

Also, discussed at gimpchat.com

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If you use the registry viewer supplied with Gimp-Perl 2.31, you won't really need plugins to be in the core distribution for them to be easily acquired!

Ed

-----Original Message----- From: Jehan Pags
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 6:25 PM To: Joseph Bupe
Cc: gimp-developer
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp passport-size photo printing

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Joseph Bupe wrote:

Hi developers,

I want to request for the possibility of handling passport-size photos in Gimp.

There is a script I found at https://app.box.com/shared/67un4fo45v that does just that, but maybe implementing this in Gimp main branch will help improve its usability and attract more users working with passports and visa printing etc.

This is probably a nice script (I haven't tested it but you say so in the forum thread), but the problem is always the same: we don't have enough core developers to maintain new scripts and plugins within the main branch. So unless someone wishes to actively support such a script within the main branch (and prove it by first actively maintaining it outside of the main branch, with regular bug fixes, feature request handling, and port to GEGL if needed), we can't just take new scripts inside the main tree.

The second issue is that there are a lot of awesome plugins out there, but which ones definitely deserves to be in as default we-have-to-support-it features, and which one are more to be considered "optional" for some specific use cases (so out of the main tree)? That's a difficult question.
I'm not sure if ID photo handling is definitely something to be considered as a default feature (though it's true most people does id photos regularly in their life, stubborn administration pushes us to not do it ourselves by refusing them).

Regards,

Jehan

Also, discussed at gimpchat.com

Joseph _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list
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