This Libre Graphics World article looks at the challenges faced by the 20-year-old GIMP project. “If you’ve been following GIMP’s progress over recent years, you couldn’t help yourself noticing the decreasing activity in terms of both commits (a rather lousy metric) and amount of participants (a more sensible one). ‘GIMP is dying’, say some. ‘GIMP developers are slacking’, say others. ‘You’ve got to go for crowdfunding’ is yet another popular notion. And no matter what, there’s always a few whitebearded folks who would blame the team for not going with changes from the FilmGIMP branch. So what’s actually going on and what’s the outlook for the project?“
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