[Gimp-web] registry prototyping / design

[Ingo Lütkebohle]

2007/8/17, Harry Phillips <hphillips at tux.com.au>:
> I was really surprised to see that there was a maintainer of the GIMP
> registry. I had forgotten my username and password to the registry.
> Despite several messages asking for help I got no response.

OK... second time, so a public reply seems in order: Yep, it has
happened that I miss a mail, and I'm sorry about it. I know it is
frustrating from personal experience.

However, what /I/ am surprised about is that people send me one or two
e-mails, receive no timely answer and then conclude that I'm dead or
something.  Honestly, folks, have you considered that I might also
have other things to do and that there are -- unfortunately! -- times
when those other things take up so much of my day that there is not
much time left?  I try to follow up on requests when I have more time
again, but I sometimes miss them. It happens to the best of us.

As it is, these periods are intermittent and when I could, I have been
very forthcoming with help, including both requests like yours about
lost accounts and things like the 2006 Google SoC proposal (which
never amounted to anything btw, which could explain me becoming a bit
cynical about such things). Michael in particular knows this and I
would appreciate it if he acknowledged that from time to time.

btw, just for some background info: I'm a PhD student and the peak
points in my workload mainly stem from two things: Teaching and demos.
I have been responsible for classes of more than ~100 students in the
past, you can imagine what that does to my inbox.

> I saw how much the current registry sucked

You know, I'm always surprised that people think a good way to start a
new undertaking is by badmouthing the old.  How about "there are a lot
of things that could be improved"?

For the record, the current experiment linked to in the first mail in
this thread does most of the things you mentioned and the additional
search categories are trivial to add.  If you're interested, register
yourself for an account and I'll assign the required privileges so
that you can work on it, too.  I'd certainly be happy for some help --
people are always happy to request some features but very few are
willing to put in some work of their own.

cheers,

-- 
Dipl.-Inform. Ingo Lütkebohle
Faculty of Technology
Bielefeld University
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~iluetkeb/

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