other things we need for the 2.4 release (again)

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:12 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:

> Great! Thanks a lot for this nice summary of the changes.
>
> I will integrate your guide into a web page for the new web site.

Very nice, thanks to both of you.

Now it seems that the most important thing is to finish the release
notes for 2.4 which have been started on

http://next.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html

There are several unfinished sections. Would be nice to get those holes
filled in...


Sven

>
> Now it seems that the most important thing is to finish the release
> notes for 2.4 which have been started on
>
> http://next.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html
>
> There are several unfinished sections. Would be nice to get those holes
> filled in...


Sven;

I'm doing some Videos for the site (for the Perspective Clone and Healing
Tool, maybe the foreground select too). I will finish next week (maybe
October 10th, but at least in 12th). I'm doing them without sound, only
using video editing and composing to get the thing more understandable for
who does not speak English. I will post them in Google Videos like the one
in the site.

Just one thing: I'm using this compiled version of Rc3:
http://www.gimpusers.com/gimp-download.php > for the Ubuntu linux 7.04 i386.
The Healing tool works too slow and the selection tools don't show that
animated border after selecting, also the wacom don't work, but I don't
really need pressure for the videos :P. I need help on these because I don't
know how to compile (yes, I tried :().

Hi,

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:13 -0300, Filipe Soares Dilly wrote:


> Just one thing: I'm using this compiled version of Rc3:
> http://www.gimpusers.com/gimp-download.php > for the Ubuntu linux 7.04
> i386. The Healing tool works too slow and the selection tools don't
> show that animated border after selecting.

The healing tool is so utterly broken. We should better not show it in
our release notes. It's only kept in 2.4 because we hope that this
improves the chance that someone will finish it.

About the selection border, perhaps you turned it off. Have you checked
in the View menu?


Sven

> The healing tool is so utterly broken. We should better not show it in
> our release notes. It's only kept in 2.4 because we hope that this
> improves the chance that someone will finish it.


OK, I will concentrate in other tools for the videos.

About the selection border, perhaps you turned it off. Have you checked
> in the View menu?


Thats OK know! Thanks :)

Sven
>
>
>

Just finished the Perspective Clone Video. I'm doing the Foreground Selector
tool now.

Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3077868802879051003&hl=en

HI-res video (800x600) (you will be redirected to media fire):
http://www.mediafire.com/?fim1wkdx1nj

Hi,

I've already sent this mail several weeks ago, but didn't get much
feedback except for some vague offers for help. Since we are now close
to actually releasing GIMP 2.4.0, we should probably have a look at this
list again.

Since I have been away for some weeks, I don't really know how much of
this has already happened. It would be nice if someone could give me and
the other people subscribed here a short update on the state of the new
web-site.


Here's a list of things that would be nice to have for the 2.4.0
release, in addition to the actual release tarball. Help with these
tasks would be very much appreciated. Please volunteer.

- new website
Jimmac and others are working on that. I guess they would appreciate
more help. Please join gimp-web list if you want to contribute.

- release notes
There are release notes being prepared with the new website. Would
be cool if some people could help to update and extend this document

- press release
Not sure if that is needed but we used to do that for GIMP 2.2. But
perhaps that work is better spend on the release notes on the new
web pages.

- announcement
This should be ascii text that can be sent to mailing-lists. It should
include links to the mirrors for download and to the release notes on
the web-site. Of course also to the press release in case that we do
one...

- migration howto
A document, perhaps as part of the new website, describing how
to migrate from GIMP 2.2 to 2.4. Should mention dependencies that
need to be updated. Also tell people that plug-ins for 2.2 should
continue to work. Suggest that users of gimp-gap update this plug-in
to version 2.2.2. Also mention the switch to Tiny-Fu and the fact that
scripts might need to be updated. Perhaps also link to the 2.4 API
reference manual on developer.gimp.org and point developers
to the lists of new symbols in 2.4.

- script-fu migration howto
A document, perhaps as part of the new website, that explains what
needs to be done to fix scripts that fail to run correctly with
GIMP 2.4. Perhaps also explain new features in 2.4 that are relevant
for script authors. Point to documentation for Tiny-Fu.

Are there other things that we should/need to prepare? Release parties
perhaps?


Sven