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From: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:46:42 -0500
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On 2024-12-29 18:53, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> On 2024-12-29 16:54, TJ wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I would have liked to try out your distribution before I settled for 
> Fedora. Your approach is pretty neat.
> 
Thank you. But there isn't really any reason why you HAVE to use just 
one distro...

TJ