Hi, We are nearing the end of 2006. Rawstudio has been in active development for more than 10 months now! :)
10 months ago we had a meeting where we outlined needed features for an open source raw-converter. The first proof of concept didn't take long to hack together, but it was pretty unusable. Four months later release 0.1 was ready for public scrutiny. Some code was borrowed from Udi Fuchs's UFRaw and David Coffin's dcraw. We wish to thank these two gentlemen for their excellent work. In retrospect I think that we've done a lot in the passing year, we have gone from nothing to something. Many features are still missing, bugs are still present. But we have a really usable application. Judging by our feedback, the user base is growing steadily - and seems to pick up as the various Linux distributions package Rawstudio for easy installation. Martin Egger popped up from nowhere and started writing the Rawstudio documentation, Richard Querin started helping almost immediately. Let's hope these two fine writers will continue their excellent work in 2007. Another big contribution was from Edouard Gomez who ported Rawstudio to x86_64. There haven't been any releases in almost three months, but rest assured, we're not falling behind. The next release will feature the long awaited crop tool, better color management and even a nifty straighten tool! We hope to have 0.5 released this year. In 2007 we should concentrate on making Rawstudio even better. One of the first things to look at is our missing demosaic, users really seem to miss the resolution demosaic provides. It would be nice if we could collaborate more with UFRaw-authors. UFRaw and Rawstudio is moving in two different directions, but we have a lot of common problems to solve. Thanks to everybody who has contributed in any way. We wish you and your family a happy holiday and a fantastic 2007. Anders Brander & Anders Kvist _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
