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by Kye 2279 days ago
GIMP is still working on getting GEGL into everything after 20 years. Glimpse is allowed a little time to discuss and decide exactly what to do. That won't show in a commit log on a project that's less than a year old.

You can see the issue tracker for a better idea of project activity: https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/issues

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OK thx for the link as it is a factual proof of life for the project. But unfortunatly, this link to the mixed bugtrack/RFC shows the patent pbroblem with this project : after reading the RFC it shows that it is up to the community to provide the most basic goals for this fork, long after the project was initiated, which underscores the original sin of Glimpse. The only reason to fork was the name and the dev team had no other structured strategy to provide other enhancement at the beginning of the project. I do not think this the spirit of the Open Source philosophy and morover I feel sad about the whole story. The numerous people behind GIMP have been giving their time and skills for more than on decade to provide the only decent free alternative to Photoshop to millions of young artists, students and professionals who were not wealthy enough to pay for Adobe products. And then come a bunch of wankers who shame these great people for an obscure US-centered issue about the name of the app...