As we approach the end of this project’s first month we would like to thank everyone that has gotten involved, contributed to and supported this project so far. The wider community’s enthusiasm for Glimpse has been amazing to see, and we hope we can keep that energy going through August and produce our first stable release very soon. Let us proceed with the latest updates from week 4! Code changes We changed the name of our current development branch based on the GNU Image Manipulation Project 2.

IRC Channel Deprecated We stated last week that we would be deprecating the #glimpse IRC channel soon. After discussing that with the community we believe the switch to Matrix is now complete, so we can safely proceed with deprecating that communication method. To confirm: we no longer track, administer, support or own the #glimpse channel on Freenode. If you spot anyone abusing the IRC channel we have vacated, please report the incident to Freenode’s own staff moderators.

Over the past week we have made a number of important code changes in the gimp2-10 branch, such as making sure the core maintainers and our Patreon contributors are listed correctly within the source code and that the About/Help menu reflects the correct project information. A new cleanup branch was also setup so we can start to remove larger assets we don’t need from version control entirely. The community has also shifted across to using our Matrix channels as their primary source of communication, and we added new channels like #glimpse-github:matrix.