[Gimp-print-devel] I need help!

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

I'm getting overloaded with stuff here, and I need some help from some
volunteers.

The basic subprojects here are:

1) Driver maintenance -- adding new printer drivers and all that.
   Some of this is fairly mechanical; some of it requires rooting
   around in printer output files; some of it requires some
   understanding of the internals of the print plugin.  It requires
   access to printers, a willingness to read often incomplete
   documentation, and a taste for reverse engineering (NOTE: "reverse
   engineering" in this context means reverse engineering of printer
   output or protocol ONLY.  I don't want anyone disassembling code.
   It normally shouldn't be necessary here.)

2) The dither code.  Hopefully we'll eventually get Raph's dither
   routine (which I've heard a lot of good things about); if not,
   we'll need to improve our stuff.  For people mathematically
   inclined, this can be a lot of fun.

3) Infrastructure.  Currently the set of options that can be passed to
   printer drivers is fixed.  We really don't want that.

4) Testing.  We need lots of it.  We cannot have too much testing.
   Anyone with a printer can and should do lots of it on a regular
   basis.  Most of the printer options can be set without requiring
   any coding (in printers.xml).

5) The GUI.  Currently this project is staffed (Steve Miller and Mitch
   Natterer), but if anyone else is interested in this, drop Steve or
   Mitch a note (or send it to the list).

6) The GhostScript driver.  Currently this only supports the Epson
   printers, for no particularly good reason.

If you're seriously interested in contributing to any of these
projects, and have appropriate skills, drop me a note describing what
you'd like to do and we can discuss adding you to the developer
roster.  If you'd like to test, you don't need anyone's permission at all.

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