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From: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:54:47 -0500
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On 2024-12-28 06:12, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-12-27 18:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:57:55 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I appreciate that I can get gratis a piece of software that is
>>>> that good.
>>>
>>> If you think Free Software could be better, and you would rather not 
>>> give
>>> money to a proprietary company, why not contribute some of that money to
>>> the development of the Free Software and help make it better?
>>
>> Especially since projects like KDE and LibreOffice really need it.
>>
> 
> Note that money is not the only way to contribute. Even by using the 
> software you contribute, by making others aware of it, you contribute. I 
> actually like projects that are not super wealthy. The linux foundation 
> and firefox are excellent examples of how power corrupts. Would never 
> dream of contributing with money to those two.

Indeed. My discretionary funds are very limited, so I can not afford to 
contribute with money. But Mageia, as my distro of choice, is 
community-based, meaning it is maintained by volunteers who contribute 
their free time to make it as good as we can.

I have no coding skills to speak of, so development isn't my forte. But, 
as the current Leader of the Mageia Quality Assurance (QA) Team, I 
contribute in other, equally valuable ways.

We are the layer between the developers and the public, tasked with 
testing updates before they are released to be as sure as possible that 
they won't break Mageia systems. Developers are only human, and 
sometimes mistakes creep in - a missing dependency, or maybe the package 
won't work on hardware the developer doesn't have. Our job is to catch 
that stuff.

We also test the install ISOs before they are released.

We are always looking for new members, and users of all skill levels are 
welcome. One of the great things about Mageia is that the opinions of 
new contributors are received with as much respect as those of our "old 
hands."

But those aren't the only ways to contribute. If something in Mageia 
doesn't work for you, please file a bug report. We also need 
translators, documentation writers, bug triaging, website designers, the 
list goes on.

https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/ is a good place to start if you 
wish to contribute to our project.

TJ