Maybe it's time to choose project leader and start collecting
donations?

On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 15:11 +0100, Aurélien Pierre wrote:
> darktable also lacks a board of investors, a CTO, a head of UX, a
> project management, a panel of test users, a famous photographer as a
> brand ambassador, many tracking features to collect statistics on
> usage "to improve the performance", an annual coding sprint in the
> Bahamas and a couple of off-shore accounts to pay for the whores and
> whisky during that sprint. 
> Until that, darktable is done be piling up code randomly produced by
> random people, 90% of them being non-native English speakers, some
> writing grey, some writing gray, and contrast still means "pushing
> whites further away from blacks" with no implication on the actual
> algorithm or colour space used to do so.
> By the way, changing strings variables in C code does not actually
> require coding knowledge (just how to use grep and git - which might
> be worse than actually coding) and only needs a proper design backed
> with some argumentation (same-named settings having the same effect
> is a very good argument, now how do we actually fix the soft in a UI-
> consistent yet technically-accurate way ?). I'm waiting for the pull
> requests…
> Le 18/11/2019 à 14:29, Timur Irikovich Davletshin a écrit :
> > Actually I agree. Darktable lacks of terminology unification across
> > modules. E.g. AFAIR there are around 6 different names for 18%
> > gray. In
> > some places it is "grey" but in others it is "gray".
> > 
> > Timur.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 14:03 +0100, Moritz Moeller wrote:
> > > On 15.11.19 12:02, parafin wrote:
> > > > I think these numbers don't have units, so why do expect them
> > > > to
> > > > mean
> > > > the same thing in different modules, even if we ignore the pipe
> > > > order?
> > > 
> > > Because that's the most basic requirement of usability. That
> > > things 
> > > named the same way act the same way and mean the same thing
> > > across a 
> > > single app – at the very least.
> > > 
> > > > It's not promised anywhere in the documentation as far as I can
> > > > see.
> > > 
> > > <sarcasm>
> > > I went through the Photoshop & Lightroom docs and I can't find
> > > any 
> > > promise in the entirety of them that slider ranges of things
> > > sharing
> > > a 
> > > name will match in range & effect.
> > > Yet they do.
> > > Go figure ...
> > > <sarcasm/>
> > > 
> > > Beers,
> > > 
> > > .mm
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