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GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

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Re: GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

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Post by ttctciyf »

Somewhat distressing to see that the following notice first appeared in a December 2021 update note[0] and has been repeated and updated regularly ever since!

> GraphicsMagick really does need some additional productive volunteers. For several years now, the burden has entirely been on me. I have been sheparding the project for 19 years already (and contributed to ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick combined for 25 years already). It is not reasonable to expect someone with a full time job (and expecting to retire in a couple of years) to do all of the work.

0: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html

Re: GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

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Post by cedws »

ttctciyf wrote: post #4

Somewhat distressing to see that the following notice first appeared in a December 2021 update note[0] and has been repeated and updated regularly ever since! > GraphicsMagick really does need some additional productive volunteers. For several years now, the burden has entirely been on me. I have been sheparding the project for 19 years already (and contributed to ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick combined for 25 years…

So… don’t do the work? Or sell commercial licenses? I never understood why developers do free work and then complain when they aren’t compensated or are overburdened. Nobody is going to throw money and resources at you out of good will. You have to ask for it. And by ask for it I mean demand it.

Re: GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

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Post by Woodi »

fithisux wrote: post #5

I never understood the benefits. My only positive was in the past the good compilation experience under Mingw.

My personal take on this is: "ImageMagick is Sendmail/Bind/OpenSSL class of software - unlimited, constant and guaranted chain of CVE's and other kind of bugs with proven history of that (year by year, often each month of the year) since the dawn of times and most likely with forever continuation of that track record. And no plans of changing trajectory."

If GraphicsMagick is better than that, then it is clearly a benefit of having it around.

Re: GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

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Post by cruffle_duffle »

cedws wrote: post #6
ttctciyf wrote: post #4

Somewhat distressing to see that the following notice first appeared in a December 2021 update note[0] and has been repeated and updated regularly ever since! > GraphicsMagick really does need some additional productive volunteers. For several years now, the burden has entirely been on me. I have been sheparding the project for 19 years already (and contributed to ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick combined for 25 years…

So… don’t do the work? Or sell commercial licenses? I never understood why developers do free work and then complain when they aren’t compensated or are overburdened. Nobody is going to throw money and resources at you out of good will. You have to ask for it. And by ask for it I mean demand it.

Perhaps,

- The library is their baby and it’s hard to not get attached and feel personally responsible.

- There are a lot of people who seem to think they have a right to be demanding of open source volunteers.

- A lot of people don’t know how to ask for and get help.

- They don’t know how to leverage the help that is offered. (Or simply the help offered isn’t the right kind)

- Delegation is hard. Letting go is hard.

Re: GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing

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Post by dublin »

Thev00d00 wrote: post #8

For most things you would use this for, or ImageMagick for that matter, you are almost certainly better of using libvips[0] 0. https://github.com/libvips/libvips

Thanks, @Thev00d00, I hadn't herd of this! I've amazed folks in the past with things I've built to do fairly heavy duty image processing using only shell (incl. Unix text utilities and awk) and ImageMagick, even though I am not a programmer!

I almost didn't click through to read about libvips, since I only want to use these tools from a CLI/shell interface, but - would you look at that - it's got command line bindings! I'm going to have to give this a try to see if it can do some of the "magick" stuff...

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