> we could not find contributors willing to step up and help with non-code tasks like moderating communication channels
Gotta say though it feels ironic that they couldn't find enough people to be comment janitors considering the whole thing was based on wanting people to stop saying a particular word.
> As a result, we struggled to scale the project to match increasing demand.
‘Glimpse didn't fail; it was actually too popular’?
Everyone that was behind Glimpse was third party to the GIMP project.
It's been over 24 years for me since I've used GIMP for the first time and the only problem that I had was always with GUI ergonomics. You had to understand everything anew after being more accustomed to proprietary software pieces. My friend never adapted to anything else but Photoshop - even Krita is beyond her abilities.
Nearly every discussion regarding GIMP on hn will include thread about the name 'problem' and this is getting tiresome. The name won't change and those who feel offended should focus on problems whose solution is genuinely productive.
I recall one of the reasons given on the GIMP Gitlab issue to change the name was "it will encourage more contributors" that apparently don't contribute because of the project name. Glimpse certainly had a lot of contributors... not.
I can't think of a single project that changed a name to satisfy these people ever received more contributors as a result.
Like the FFmpeg/libav fork that eventually got back together. Or Compiz/Beryl, or Emacs/XEmacs, or GCC/EGCS, or whatever :)
Then again, I'm also old enough to have seen it shift significantly in meaning at least once, and I think I'm seeing it shift meaning again.
It's a US specific slur when used in this context, not in other English speaking countries (let alone non-English countries) A lot of GIMP developers are European yet the Glimpse project tried to force American cultural/linguistic rules on a non-American project.
Words mean different things in different regions and languages, just because it's offensive in your language does not mean it's offensive in others.
Not refuting anything here, just adding some context from over here. Whichever way you slice it, it’s always been an awful name.
I'd like it if they changed the name. We're (the Open Source community) not teenagers or annoying college kids anymore, by and large.
I hope they never give in to the corporate-lawyer induced bland-washing .
I'm just a Free Software user and developer and I think it's nicer when I can recommend something to someone without having to think about whether I might be saying something rude or hurtful. I assume there was a stink about the name because it bothers some disabled folks. It's not my place to tell them not to be bothered, I'd rather just not do the shitty thing that bothers them.
It seems cringey and childish to insist on doing a thing that makes a bunch of people feel unwelcome based on something about themselves they can't change. And, for what? So you can feel like a scruffy teenaged hacker?
I like my Free Software community to welcome people of all sorts.
The funniest of these is when Europeans talk about how they are being "forced" to comply with American cultural norms and you go through their account and they are so deeply steeped in American culture due to their participation in the anglophone internet spaces which are dominated by them. People in Europe will argue with you that you are importing woke culture if you suggest that they shouldn't say the N word, but are seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that the reason they find the word exciting to say and they say it in English is an import of American culture
I don't think I've actually heard the sex thing being used anywhere in the UK, except perhaps when discussing Pulp Fiction. Even in kink contexts!