Hi Andy!
Thanks for the kind words. Anders and I have been away on a holiday trip, so we have not had the possibility to write to you sooner. Currently we are preparing a beta of 2.0, so the main focus is testing and bug fixes. We are pretty much where we would like to be in terms of features and performance, but are mainly looking at finetuning minor stuff and making sure everything works. Right now the major things that could be interesting are: Automatic testing. * Unit test of file decoding * Improve current file test of decode support, metadata read, wb read, lens information, existing profile, possibly with output to a readable/parsable format (xml?) * Filters input/output. * Filter fuzz testing (changing input/parameters and check for results). * More tests. That would be a major upgrade of our QA test, and I think you would be more qualified for this than any of us to be honest. ---- States For the GUI part, we are mainly "missing" one feature that will not make it into v2.0, a change to "state" based editing, that makes it possible to change the mode you are in, by simply clicking an icon, so you don't always have left-click-to-set-wb mode. The right click menu is too well hidden away, and a lot of features are only available there. This will also be familiar for most from other Raw editing software. http://bugzilla.rawstudio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287 ---- Output plugins Fairly straightforward, and will help users a lot. We have added most obvious potential export options to the bugtracker, such as Picasa, digiKam, Web album, PDF, ODF - you name it :) Copy image to clipboard is also a feature that would be very helpful, to paste images into OpenOffice or other apps. The existing output plugins should be a good starting point. So there are still lots of things that could be worked on. I would suggest that you can start by sending your things as patches to Anders Brander, and when things work out, you could get direct commit access. Regards, Klaus Post http://www.klauspost.com On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 21:38, Andrew Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Rawstudio Development Team, > > I just read the two most recent blog entries on rawstudio.org. I love the > technical detail about the software development. I've been using Rawstudio > occasionally for a couple years and am very excited about 2.0. Sounds like > there are a lot of great improvements going into it. I am also a senior > software engineer and have been looking for an open source project to join. > I love the technical challenge of something like Rawstudio and I love taking > pictures too! Seems like a great combination. My skill sets include: > architecture and object-oriented design, algorithms, parallel programming, > GUI, test-driven development. I don't have a ton of time to commit but I'm > interested in helping when I can. I am already running the bleeding edge > version out of svn and have created a bugzilla account. Any tips of where I > can start? Bug reporting and fixes? I've never contributed to an open source > project before so I am not familiar with the standard processes. > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Rawstudio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev > > _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
