[cycloptic]

Most of the current developers _are_ random people on the internet who decided to contribute to it in their free time. If you have noticed, repeatedly asking for a feature when it's already on the roadmap as a high priority item and has been there for some years also does not help the feature get implemented any faster.

[xvilka]

They just should have done what Krita did - gather money, hire developers full time.

[cycloptic]

That requires administrative staff to run the fundraiser, handle the accounting, do the hiring...

[boogies]

GIMP does theoretically have indirect access to administrative staff from the FSF through GNU, I think?

[cycloptic]

Well, a few things. It would be GNOME Foundation, but historically they have existed mostly to coordinate volunteers and have been reluctant to hire developers because of that. (It creates conflicts of interest) In general, the people who are good at fundraising are already heavily in demand and they know it.

Plus, the lead developer(s) would have to commit to increased management responsibilities in order for it to happen, and they don't seem to be willing to for various reasons.

[drran]

s/They just should have done/I will do/ please.

[AsyncAwait]

And you should have done what Bezos did and become a multimillionaire.