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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Erasmo,

Every man counts! Even if it's just a small amount of time, it'd be great
if we could get you helping out on Shotwell :) Looking forward to seeing
your merge requests ;)


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Erasmo Marín <erasmo.marin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
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> >
> > Daniel Foré
> >
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-- 
Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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