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" <dan...@elementaryos.org> 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<https://launchpad.net/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 > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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