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GIMP 2.2.11 Released

Submitted by stro on Fri, 2006-04-14 07:42. GIMP
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Version 2.2.11 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is now available. This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.2 series. Please see the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes. The source code can be retrieved from ftp.gimp.org and its mirrors. Binary packages for the various supported platforms will become available soon.

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Effort balance

Submitted by BrendaEM on Fri, 2006-04-14 15:38.

I understand that 2.2 is used by a lot of people for production, and they would want the bug-fixes, but I am looking forward to newer resampling/resizing algorithms in 2.4.

Sometimes I wonder whether it might be more constructive to place the effort in making .0 releases bug free, than placing effort in patching them.

It's strange that if, just once, the whole computer industry waited just a few months to release their products, all the software would be less buggy. When the Internet became popular, software releases became buggier because it would be assumed that they could always be patched.

One could say that the state of software has progressed faster in recent years, and that could explain less than solid software releases, but I don't believe that is at the heart of the manner. If you could always release a patch, what would motivate anyone in writing good software?

[Firmware, and console game companies don't usually have the luxury of releasing bug-ridden software.]

I feel that open source, on the whole could be better on following though with bug reports. I have had bad reproducible claimed not-a-bug, and then it’s released with the same bug, and then it’s fixed later, but something else is broken because no one ever tested the fix. I sometimes get feedback on bugs I have filed years before, on program trees, that probably have been pruned long ago in the newer versions.

In the spirit of making better text the first time, I ran this though a spell checker in a word processor.

bug free releases

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Tue, 2006-04-18 05:37.

We have done a lot of testing before the 2.2.0 release and tried our very best to make it as bug-free as possible. I don't think that we could have created a 2.2.0 release with significantly less bugs if we had waited more time. Some bugs always only turn up after the release. No matter how much testing you put into it beforehand.

If you want GIMP 2.4.0 to have less bugs, then please help us by testing the 2.3.x development snapshots.

A lot of bugs are discovered

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Fri, 2006-04-14 16:44.

A lot of bugs are discovered by using the program. If you wait a few months before releasing a program, then there will be less users. That means less testers, and thus less bugs found. You'd still have to release bugfix releases later.

Except for hello world and similar programs, there are no 100% bug-free programs. It's almost impossible to create such programs, especially if the program is large.