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[Jim Nelson <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's a lot of "Shotwell is dead" talk out there, which isn't true.  
I would love it if more contributors would throw patches our way; it 
doesn't help if people are saying "Don't bother, Yorba's dropped 
Shotwell."  We've done a lot of hard work on Shotwell, now we're asking 
the community to step up and contribute too.

-- Jim

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Erasmo Marín <erasmo.marin@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Hi Nelson, sorry if I make it sound like if you are not interested in 
> community, I'm sure you are, It's just my opinion of how it looks 
> "from outside". Photos is changing a lot in the trunk branch, so 
> looks more open to big changes in the future (gui and functionally), 
> while shotwell looks more like a finished product, very stable. Looks 
> like both projects are in different steps in the software life cycle.
>
> Also, you make a point. Shotwell is available in more distributions, 
> like Ubuntu, and that's attractive for contributors too.
>
> I don't want to start a fight or something like that :). Both 
> projects can benefit each other.
>
> Greetings and sorry for my English if I did any mitsake.
>
> El sep 25, 2014 2:43 PM, "Jim Nelson" <jim@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Erasmo Marín 
> > <erasmo.marin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Also, the guys at shotwell are accepting patches and contributions, 
> > > but they are not extending shotwell any more, so you have better 
> > > chances to get your branch accepted here, and photos is a more 
> > > active project.
> >
> > I'm not sure how Shotwell can be accepting patches and contributions 
> > and yet contributors not have a good chance of their branch being 
> > accepted.  Your logic is specious.
> >
> > If you contribute to Shotwell, your branch and patches have as good 
> > a chance as anywhere of being accepted.  Yorba has high interest in 
> > the community growing Shotwell.  We do not blow off contributions.  
> > If anything, we're eager to accept them.
> >
> > Also know that your work on Shotwell will be available for all GNOME 
> > Desktops, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, and more.  No matter 
> > what's said here, Shotwell remains the most-used photo manager in 
> > Linux today.
> >
> > -- Jim