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- ! "Hey There GIMP Devs,\r\n\r\nI am representing a team of 5 students who want to make some contributions\r\nto the GIMP project as a small part of our coursework for CSCI 462 Software\r\nEngineering Practicum.\r\nThus far, our involvement has been pretty minor. To get our feet wet, we\r\nworked on a resolution for bug:\r\nhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589229, and we had a great\r\nexperience with that. Now we are ready to get our hands dirty to make a bit\r\nmore substantial of a contribution.\r\n\r\nOur proposal is as follows, and we would appreciate any feedback and\r\ndirection that you have to offer:\r\n----\r\n\r\nOriginal feature request:\r\nhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329464 \"Add\r\na 'check for updates' online menu entry\"\r\n\r\nThe plugin will be an option accessible from the help menu named “Update.”\r\nOnce clicked, it will use an appropriate PDB procedure to get the URI which\r\nwill return the latest stable release data in the form of XML (the URI with\r\nthe release data would ideally be made available on gimp.org). A comparison\r\nwill be made between the user's current version and the latest available\r\nversion, and if the latest version is newer and the user chooses to update,\r\nthe plugin would attempt to either update GIMP for the user or direct them\r\nto the latest download online.\r\n\r\nConsiderations have been made to disable the option if the user has a\r\nversion of GIMP built from the git repository, though this will be an\r\nadditional part of the plugin to be developed later once the core\r\nfunctionality has been implemented and tested.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nWe appreciate your time, and look forward to your responses,\r\nBen Johnson"