GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

ThisLibre Graphics World article looks at the challenges faced by the20-year-old GIMP project. "If you've been following GIMP's progressover recent years, you couldn't help yourself noticing the decreasingactivity in terms of both commits (a rather lousy metric) and amount ofparticipants (a more sensible one).'GIMP is dying', say some. 'GIMP developers are slacking', sayothers. 'You've got to go for crowdfunding' is yet another popularnotion. And no matter what, there's always a few whitebearded folks whowould blame the team for not going with changes from the FilmGIMP branch.So what's actually going on and what's the outlook for the project?"