Sven Neumann (sven@gimp.org) wrote:

Sven Neumann writes:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/authors.xml?view=markup

I am now looking for a volunteer to go over authors.xml and check what roles apply to the people listed there. Perhaps also check that noone important is missing (last time we did that was before the 2.2 release). No coding skills required, you don't even need to know anything but the mere basics about XML. Some knowledge of the GIMP history will definitely help though...

No response whatsoever. So there isn't even interest in helping with the simple tasks any longer? This is becoming somewhat frustrating...

I am pretty sure that it is *not* simple and that there are very few people being able to do that. And no, I don't think I could do this. There are too many names in that file I've never heard of and I have no interest at all go digging through ancient maillogs or changelogs just to figure out if someone was a contributor or doc-writer or whatever.

I am surprised that you're surprised about the underwhelming response.

Bye, Simon

On 8/26/05, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Sven Neumann writes:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/authors.xml?view=markup

I am now looking for a volunteer to go over authors.xml and check what roles apply to the people listed there. Perhaps also check that noone important is missing (last time we did that was before the 2.2 release). No coding skills required, you don't even need to know anything but the mere basics about XML. Some knowledge of the GIMP history will definitely help though...

No response whatsoever. So there isn't even interest in helping with the simple tasks any longer? This is becoming somewhat frustrating...

I wasn't sure if I should attempt the task or not, and was kinda hoping someone else would take the task (because I'm fiddling with some other things in POV-Ray and Perl, among other things). But I believe I could attempt this, if you can point me generally at the document sources I might want to look up, and what special instructions I'd need for "submitting" the finished product.

On 8/26/05, Simon Budig wrote:

Sven Neumann (sven@gimp.org) wrote:

Sven Neumann writes:

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/authors.xml?view=markup

I am now looking for a volunteer to go over authors.xml and check what roles apply to the people listed there. Perhaps also check that noone important is missing (last time we did that was before the 2.2

No response whatsoever. So there isn't even interest in helping with the simple tasks any longer? This is becoming somewhat frustrating...

I am pretty sure that it is *not* simple and that there are very few people being able to do that. And no, I don't think I could do this.

I believe that compared to coding C++, this is supposed to be considered simple - the generic, old, mundane task of compiling a list of names. ^^ I believe that in the "olden days" this used to be the sort of job an entry level worker would do in a corporation.

There are too many names in that file I've never heard of and I have no interest at all go digging through ancient maillogs or changelogs just to figure out if someone was a contributor or doc-writer or whatever.

What about a collaborative effort? E.g. someone goes and checks through these things, and then someone can double check. Or the list can be split in half, and then if there's ones we're unsure about we send them to the other person (and vice versa).

Based on ChangeLog* po*/ChangeLog:

Index: authors.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gimp/authors.xml,v retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -0 -r1.6 authors.xml
--- authors.xml 20 Aug 2005 02:28:29 -0000 1.6 +++ authors.xml 27 Aug 2005 09:48:39 -0000 @@ -26 +26 @@
- Robert Brady
+ Robert Brady
@@ -30 +30 @@
- Carey Bunks
+ Carey Bunks
@@ -38 +38 @@
- Kenneth Christiansen
+ Kenneth Christiansen
@@ -48 +48 @@
- Gert Dewit
+ Gert Dewit
@@ -58 +58 @@
- Valek Filippov
+ Valek Filippov
@@ -64 +64 @@
- Sami Gerdt
+ Sami Gerdt
@@ -76,2 +76,2 @@
- Henrik Hansen
- Ville Hautamäki
+ Henrik Hansen
+ Ville Hautamäki
@@ -85 +85 @@
- Andreas Hyden
+ Andreas Hyden
@@ -87 +87 @@
- Krzysztof Jakubowski
+ Krzysztof Jakubowski
@@ -90 +90 @@
- Fellmann Joaquim
+ Fellmann Joaquim
@@ -127 +127 @@
- Daniele Medri
+ Daniele Medri
@@ -130 +130 @@
- James Mitchell
+ James Mitchell
@@ -135,2 +135,2 @@
- Yukihiro Nakai
- Sung-Hyun Nam
+ Yukihiro Nakai
+ Sung-Hyun Nam
@@ -138 +138 @@
- Felix Natter
+ Felix Natter
@@ -153 +153 @@
- Sergey Panov
+ Sergey Panov
@@ -158 +158 @@
- Artur Polaczynski
+ Artur Polaczynski
@@ -162 +162 @@
- Vincent Renardias
+ Vincent Renardias
@@ -169 +169 @@
- Pablo Saratxaga
+ Pablo Saratxaga
@@ -182 +182 @@
- Carol Spears
+ Carol Spears
@@ -187 +187 @@
- Yuri Syrota
+ Yuri Syrota

The following names I couldn't find in the ChangeLogs, somebody else could grep through the mailint list archives. My apologies if I have missed someone obvious whom I should know by name.

Karl-Johan Andersson John Beale
Marc Bless
Edward Blevins
Reagan Blundell
Xavier Bouchoux
Roberto Boyd
Brent Burton
Francisco Bustamante
Albert Cahalan
Sean Cier
Ed Connel
Brian Degenhardt
Scott Draves
Daniel Dunbar
Misha Dynin
Morton Eriksen
David Forsyth
Jochen Friedrich
Jim Geuther
Graeme Gill
Heiko Goller
Marcelo de Gomensoro Malheiros
Michael Hammel
Jan Hubička
Simon Janes
Andrew Kieschnick
Philipp Klaus
Karl La Rocca
Laramie Leavitt
Elliot Lee
Wing Tung Leung
Ingo Lütkebohle
Ed Mackey
Ian Main
Torsten Martinsen
Hirotsuna Mizuno
Balazs Nagy
Stephen Robert Norris
Tim Newsome
Erik Nygren
Thom van Os
Mike Phillips
Jens Restemeier
Daniel Risacher
James Robinson
Tim Rowley
Mike Schaeffer
John Schlag
Norbert Schmitz
Thorsten Schnier
Tracy Scott
Aaron Sherman
Daniel Skarda
Mike Sweet
Michael Taylor
Ian Tester
James Wang
Kris Wehner
Nigel Wetten

--tml

On 8/27/05, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

The following names I couldn't find in the ChangeLogs, somebody else could grep through the mailint list archives. My apologies if I have missed someone obvious whom I should know by name.

Thom van Os

He did the selective gaussian blur plugin, and I think I've seen the name in other places as well. But he definately qualifies as "author."

Rockwalrus

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:52:17PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

i just cut a lot of work you did off from this reply. thank you for that :)

The following names I couldn't find in the ChangeLogs, somebody else could grep through the mailint list archives. My apologies if I have missed someone obvious whom I should know by name.

Marc Bless

without knowing what this person did, i wonder if he could fix gimp-perl?

Francisco Bustamante

this gentleman is known as bit on #gimp. i am fairly certain he contributed something in the 1.1 version. at any rate, the gimp news guy (at the time) pasted something from his irc log from way back. it was the people who were joined on the irc at a time so far into the bowells of the last century -- i cannot remember the date of the paste let alone the date the paste was from. bit was there with spencer and that other guy. and the news guy and maybe even one or both of the bots. for lack of other actual evidence, bit could easily be grandfathered in.

Graeme Gill

currently working with color management. don't piss them off yet!

Michael Hammel

graphics muse. uses imake. business cards and arrows. a gimp grandfather. probably invented a magazine so he could write about gimp -- who knows?

Andrew Kieschnick

he bought the gimp news guy a beer.

Aaron Sherman

maybe i am confused and this is the person who bought Xach a beer.

and i am sorry if you are a good friend and did a lot and i missed the connection between the name and the irc nick or the aliased bugzilla stuff or the fake email you use.

i might even have just missed it and there was no faking.

carol

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:52:17PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

The following names I couldn't find in the ChangeLogs, somebody else could grep through the mailint list archives. My apologies if I have missed someone obvious whom I should know by name.

Ian Main

slow@gimp.org his irc nick is Slow and knowing all of this about mr. main you should be able to guess that he wrote the original gtk tutorial. he lives in canada and has a baby named Int.

carol

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:52:17PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

Based on ChangeLog* po*/ChangeLog:

i wonder how many of the missing people can be found in gtk+/ChangeLog*?

carol

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:52 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

Stephen Robert Norris

I wrote the original Plasma plugin, Displace plugin and... waves? plugin... It's been a while.

Stephen

Stephen Robert Norris writes:
> I wrote the original Plasma plugin, Displace plugin and... waves? > plugin... It's been a while.

OK. As Sven said, no big changes are expected. I assume all who can't be with 100% certainty classified as "documenter" or "artist" will stay as "author".

--tml

In-Reply-To:

Here is a thought regarding the who's who in gimp - perhaps add one more category,
author, artisit, documenter, and founder (or contributor or something along those lines) - with the intent being those ACTIVE authors (et. al.) are listed as specified, and past contributors are lumped together. Maybe review the list at the end of each major release and if your name isn't in the change log for version X, then you get moved (or stay) in the founder category.
Just a thought.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:52:17PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

Based on ChangeLog* po*/ChangeLog:

Tim Newsome

i just found this name in the grid plugin as Author. also listed (in the copyright section) are Sven Neumann, Tom Rathborne and TC

what the heck is a TC? does it mean "Technically Correct"?

carol

Tor Lillqvist wrote:

The following names I couldn't find in the ChangeLogs, somebody else could grep through the mailint list archives. My apologies if I have missed someone obvious whom I should know by name.

looks like mostly plugin folks, some of which may no longer be distrubited with the app...

sources, old www.gimp.org, http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~federico/gimp/links.html, old gimp news, plugin registry, my crufty old brain, http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp/resources.html

Karl-Johan Andersson

plugins Struc(canvasify), Glasstile, FlareFX

John Beale

plugins "warp", seems like other stuff as well

Marc Bless

"Author of the GIMP Programmers Guide. Soon to be updated for .99" according to the original wwww.gimp.org

Edward Blevins

listed as author of at least checkerboard plugin

Reagan Blundell

sent some patches to me for mail.c at the very least, think he did some

Xavier Bouchoux

plugins Sinus,Keftale and Holes plugins

Roberto Boyd

??

Brent Burton

Checkerboard plugin

Francisco Bustamante

plugins PCX, Stereogram, Colorify

Albert Cahalan

plugin hrz loader

Sean Cier

plugins depthmerge

Ed Connel

plugins Levels and Histogram

Brian Degenhardt

ported some .54 plugins according to federico's page

Scott Draves

flame and smooth pallette plugin

Daniel Dunbar

seem to recall he had a pile of tutorials and docs at one point and polar coordinates plugin

Misha Dynin

original url plugin

Morton Eriksen

plugin Apply Lens

David Forsyth

??

Jochen Friedrich

plugins G3 fax plugin

Jim Geuther

ported a bunch of his ImageKnife plugins to GIMP

Graeme Gill

wrote pnmnlfilt, which was ported to the non linear filter plugin

Heiko Goller

maintained a list of patches, mostly for IRIX fixes it's even still up!
http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~han/gimp/changes.html

Marcelo de Gomensoro Malheiros

contributed a large portion of the default graidents included in gimp, see http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~federico/gimp/gradient-editor/ also, solid noise plugin

Michael Hammel

docs, resources, and I seem to recall various fixups and patches at times

Jan HubiÄka

aalib and one of the "math" plugins I belive

Simon Janes

wrote some docs according to federicos page

Andrew Kieschnick

plugins Difference Plasma and Charcoa

Philipp Klaus

"border average" plugin

Karl La Rocca

seems to have contributted textures and whatnot

Laramie Leavitt

?? vaguely want to say alpha stuff

Elliot Lee

he was all over gnome and gtk for a while, did the initial check in of gimp into gnome cvs,

Wing Tung Leung

??

Ingo Lütkebohle

plugin registry

Ed Mackey

gimp faq

Ian Main

gtk+ tutorual

Torsten Martinsen

plugins Noisify, Engrave, Oilify,Variable Blur

Hirotsuna Mizuno

plugins Illusiton, Paper Tile, Fractal Trace, gimp-mask

Balazs Nagy

???

Stephen Robert Norris

plugins, displacement map, plasma, etc

Tim Newsome

aalib plugin, grid plugin

Erik Nygren

plugins pnm

Thom van Os

plugin selective gausian blur

Mike Phillips

some tutorials according to federicos page

Jens Restemeier

plugins Qbist, gfli, and User Filter

Daniel Risacher

gzip plugin

James Robinson

tutorials according to federicos page

Tim Rowley

plugin "tiler"

Mike Schaeffer

from federicos page: Mike Schaeffer has created some icons you can use for the GIMP and its windows. You can fetch them from his homepage. He also has written a small utility that lets you preview the installed fonts in your X server.

John Schlag

listed as co-author of emboss

Norbert Schmitz

plugin iWarp

Thorsten Schnier

plugins sobel and laplace

Tracy Scott

plugins, pixelize, cubism, etc

Aaron Sherman

various perl scripts/plugins

Daniel Skarda

plugins Motion Blur, GAG

Mike Sweet

plugins Print, Sharpen, Despeckle, irix fixes

Michael Taylor

plugins pix

Ian Tester

plugins threshold

James Wang

???

Kris Wehner

plugins levels/histogram (.54)

Nigel Wetten

plugins, diff, wind, jigsaw

Adrian Likins