Oooo so there's only like 5 years of waiting left?
Seriously. I don't doubt a lot of effort is going into it but I've been hearing "gimp 3 soon" for like 3 years now
You always have to consider the sources of such whispers, otherwise it means very little. The devs, who are few and works on evenings because they have day jobs, a well-know open source issue for many projects, were clear about when they started in earnest on getting 3.0 done, less than 3 years ago. Until then they've spent most of their time adding features to 2.10 and the 2.9 branch was more of a long lived testing ground with occational test releases that cause talk sometimes. The aim was RC primo or medio this year, they're only slightly late.
But I get the feeling more devs are starting to contribute now it's near 3.0, maybe because the new architecture actually makes it easier. So there's hope a lot will start to happen. There's even a UI working group.
I'm running the 2.9 nightly, it's better in a multitude of little ways as well as having a number of new features.
