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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: sponsored work for Dmitry
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2012-09-20 17:12:51
Message-ID: 201209201912.51757.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Thursday 20 September 2012 Sep, silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Dmitry wrote:
> > I believe that the first two points (grayscale masks and bugs) are the
> most important topics now.
> 
> I totally agree :-)
> 
> 1. The Grayscale mask feature has been suggested several times by many \
> users-artists. 
> 2. The great importance of fixing bugs does not need an explication :-)
> 
> On the one hand, fixing bugs is a "boring-nasty" task.
> Usually, it is more fun to develop something completely new (besides you generally \
> get much more visibility as a developer).  On the other hand, it requires someone \
> *really* skilled to do this fixing correctly. That is, someone who does not  break \
> other parts of the software (while fixing the bugs) :-) 
> I have been always delighted by the Blender team (but the same applies to other \
> softwares: e.g. LibreOffice). On Mondays, the Blender team always releases a report \
> and their first item is usually the bug-count. In this report they list the total \
> amount of bugs (and the number of bugs fixed): \
> http://www.blendernation.com/2012/09/16/developer-meeting-notes-september-16-2012/ \
> In  my view, they show a very *professional* attitude :-) 

Yes, we really need to do that again. I've been doing that for quite some times, but \
then I fell behind. It makes a lot of difference for the perception of the project as \
a whole. And there's plenty of cool stuff to report about as well -- but I bet that \
even we don't realize that because we're missing the reports :-)

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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