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[Erasmo Marín <erasmo.marin@xxxxxxxxx>]

As some of you know, I have worked in "Foto", and I have already
implemented some widgets that I think could be useful for Shotwell.
I'm not going to maintain Foto anymore, so, some of my work could be
used. I offer my help, but I can't take the responsability of
maintaining shotwell as someone proposed in g+. Shotwell is very
complex, even more than other elementary projects like Files, so, if
it's going to be maintained by the elementary community, we are going
to need a proper amount of people interested.

2014/1/24 Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Harvey has some great mocks on dA. I'm going to be trying to ticket some
> smaller design issues until we get it in a state where I think we can start
> moving the UI in that direction.
>
> The first big design challenge is going to be sorting through that menubar
> and making sure all the functionality is available in the UI. Then we can
> start talking about some bigger UI changes.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:29 PM, A. "Xylon" V. <avlabs314@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Yay! Maybe some blueprints linking to some mockups and how they should be
>> implemented would be helpful?
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2014 8:13 PM, "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Team,
>>>
>>>
>>> I’ve been talking to Jim Nelson (President of Yorba) about Shotwell for a
>>> while now and here’s the quick and dirty: Shotwell needs a new maintainer.
>>> Ubuntu has the Gallery app, Fedora has GNOME photos, and Yorba just doesn’t
>>> have the resources anymore to maintain Shotwell. Their focus is on Geary. So
>>> that pretty much leaves us or an unknown to take up the mantel.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim seems really excited about the idea of Shotwell becoming a part of
>>> our community. He thinks we have the talent and the vision to bring it up to
>>> date and make it into a really great app. But there’s a small caveat: Yorba
>>> recently joined the GNOME development community. So officially, development
>>> is done in GNOME git and bugzilla and their wiki, etc. Which is obviously
>>> not ideal for us.
>>>
>>>
>>> Enter the solution: After some discussion with Jim, we think the best
>>> course of action is for elementary to fork Shotwell. I’ve taken the liberty
>>> of setting up a launchpad page for Pantheon Photos. It is currently
>>> maintained by elementary-apps team, but I think we’ll want to create a
>>> Pantheon Photos team as Jim wants to stay in the loop on development, but we
>>> don’t want to spam him with all the other elementary apps stuff.
>>>
>>>
>>> Firstly, I know that this is a big responsibility to take on. I think as
>>> a community, we can do it. Having Photos in launchpad and under the umbrella
>>> of the elementary apps team will allow us a lot more freedom for casual
>>> involvement with the code base. Not to mention, Jim has already stated that
>>> he is available to answer anyone’s questions or give guidance regarding how
>>> Shotwell’s code is structured, things to watch out for, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think this is going to be a really positive move for our photos app and
>>> I’m looking forward to working with all of you on building a really great
>>> Photos experience in elementary OS.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> elementaryos.org
>>>
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>
> Daniel Foré
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