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 <dan...@elementaryos.org>: > 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. <avlabs...@gmail.com> 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" <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. 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 >>> > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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