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  Back from vacation (and after sick days after it! 🤒), we are back at: 1/ Working on #ZeMarmot production; 2/ Working on the next generation of file format for #GIMP (which will bring all kind of fancy features). More detailed news soon… 🤭 #devLog #productionLog

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  These last few days, I've finally started to work on my big project for @GIMP@floss.social 3.4, which is our new format, which will trigger auto-update, very quick saves (even for big projects), more maintainable and extendable save/load code, but also much more. E.g. it will be a basis for our animation support too. This work has been very smooth so far, which is not surprising since the architecture choices are what make it easier. To be continued…

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  I just merged a nice patch by Richard Allen for @GIMP@floss.social's JPEG import plug-in. With a recent enough libjpeg-turbo (most used JPEG lib), loading 8-bit JPEG through the 12-bit pipeline brings huge quality benefits. It comes at the expense of all JPEG being loaded as 16-bit per channel, which means bigger files. Yet the qualitative difference is making this change a no-brainer. Loading as 8bpc then converting to 16bpc, you already lost data (unlike loading directly as 16bpc). #GIM...

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  RE: https://nutmeg.social/@chris/116680244100460649 What's happening here?! A police box in space? Could it… bigger on the inside?! 😱 And wait, what's this about Babl fishes? Is someone hitchhiking? I don't understand what's going on! 🤪

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  RE: https://post.lurk.org/@lgm/116396857660090749 The @chaoswesttv teams have always impressed us, ever since we first met them at a #GUADEC quite a few years ago! And again last year at #LGM. The quality and skills they are showing is impressive and surpasses many professionals in the field of live video recording/editing/streaming… 🤩

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  Our week at Libre Graphics Meeting, including the 3.2.4 bugfix release, branching out and starting to work on GIMP 3.4 and a talk about the Community and #GIMP: https://www.patreon.com/posts/talk-at-libre-156389293

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  @loke There is a famous quote saying in substance that a lot of people would refuse to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it. And unfortunately there are a lot of lobbies who have absolutely no interest in understanding it. They also have no interest in the people themselves, the digital health of the European Union, etc. Because it does not fill their pockets as much as the other way. @jubei @GIMP @EUCommission

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  Aaaaargh! Sorry everyone! I edited the message, but only the poll duration as I wanted to extend it a bit until tonight and that… resetted all the votes to 0!!! 😱 For information, before edit, 100% of the votes were on the "It works fine; I see no regressions or blockers" item, and I think that was 6 or 7 votes. Feel free to re-vote, as it feels sad now with 0 votes showing. 😢 Really sorry all. I didn't know a poll time edit would do a reset (feels like a Mastodon bug).

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  I finally published my report on Wilber Week 2023, @GIMP's contributor meeting, which we had at @Blender's HQ this year, together with some @inkscape contributors as well! Enjoy! https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/06/29/wilber-week-2023/

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  🥳 Happy ㉊th birthday, @GIMP ! 🎂 In 1995, November 21, a young US student, Peter Mattis, announces a program on some Linux newsgroups, called "The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program". 2 years later, Spencer Kimball (other co-author) and Peter graduate and leave. Thanks to the #GPL license, the community take over development. 30 years later… The project is thriving, with contributors from all over the world, and maintainers from Germany, Norway, France, Korea, Nethe...

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  The @GIMP project got a very cute fan mail through actual post 💌, with a donation. We would love to share a scan, but it's not cool to share private messages without consent, so we won't. It is though very heart-warming! 🥰 We have had some at #ZeMarmot too across the years, and actual fan mail, and even more when it's through physical letters, is always extremely cool to receive! 🤗

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  RE: https://floss.social/@GIMP/116229009692048437 We released #GIMP 3.2.0 today! Quite an exhausting week with usual last-minute issues! E.g. the CI infra suddenly failed yesterday! Fortunately admins were prompt to fix as always (still I went to bed at 1AM)! Then issues in Windows packaging, which testers didn't notice with early test packages (of course, only noticed by someone just after the tagging! 😱). Yet all in all, first time I end the release around 7PM after having started th...

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  On the final stretch toward GIMP 3.2?! Please test the latest GIMP 3.2.0 RC3 (release candidate 3) everyone! 🤗 https://www.patreon.com/posts/gimp-3-2-0-rc3-152151172

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  Someone (thanks @CmykStudent for discovering it!) shared this meme… about #ZeMarmot's Jehan, as @GIMP maintainer "hero developer"! 😅😎😱🤣 We were unsure what to do of it. In the end, just sharing it… for the fun. I should say "Thank you", I guess? 🤷🤗 https://programmerhumor.io/linux-memes/this-is-jehan-pages-the-top-developer-behind-gimp-a-free-open-source-photo-editor-adobe-executives-hate-jehan-because-of-his-hard-work-adobe-lost-millions-of-dollars-...

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  Quite last minute, yesterday evening, I (Jehan from #ZeMarmot and @GIMP maintainer) answered to the call for feedback by the @EUCommission on the "European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy". Here is my response: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33370679_en