Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-04-21 Thread mail
I recommend in prior to make a release of the library quickly, to push a very important information to the community : the project is alive ! Well, actually it is not really alive. I probably will not do any more bigger contributions or maintenance tasks. Torsten Bronger is having a hard jo

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-04-21 Thread Gilles Caulier
Hi, >From my side, as long time digiKam coordinator and opens source contributor, Lensfun is a very important piece of software and very popular in users base. Since we propose digiKam as ready to use bundles for Linux (AppImage), MacOS (package), and Windows (Installers), we inlude as well the L

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-04-21 Thread mail
I still don’t see how this can be made in smaller steps. The good news is that most of the path to the next release is behind us, at least in my estimation. Yes, it was necessary to refactor these parts of Lensfun although it stalled the project for quite some time. In the end we got a much

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-04-16 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Sebastian Kraft writes: > [...] > > In 2016 I started to refactor most of the library internals as it > turned out that its structure cannot be extended, e.g. with the > perspective correction now available in the alpha release, and was > really difficult to maintain. A lot of code has

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-02-22 Thread Sebastian Kraft
On 21.02.19 22:32, Graeme Leese wrote: Hi Sebastian, Thanks for all the work you've done on Lensfun over the years. I'd be happy to get involved in continuing the project. I currently have calibrations in the database that I can't use because of (2), so I'd be interested in helping fix that,

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-02-21 Thread Graeme Leese
Hi Sebastian, Thanks for all the work you've done on Lensfun over the years. I'd be happy to get involved in continuing the project. I currently have calibrations in the database that I can't use because of (2), so I'd be interested in helping fix that, but I should be able to contribute something

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-02-20 Thread Sebastian Kraft
I would suggest to post this in the pixls.us forums too: https://discuss.pixls.us/ A lot of projects are there which are using lensfun. Thanks, good idea! I posted it there. Cheers, Sebastian ___ Lensfun-users mailing list Lensfun-users@lists.sour

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-02-20 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Saturday, February 16, 2019 1:46:54 PM CET Sebastian Kraft wrote: > Dear list, Hi Sebastian, > Therefore, I would like to ask the community to take over the Lensfun > project management and maintenance in the next months. I will still be > around and contribute from time to time. But to be rea

[Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-02-16 Thread Sebastian Kraft
Dear list, the Lensfun project was started by Andrew Zabolotny in 2007 to lay the foundation of a free and open source database for the correction of photographic lens errors. After Lensfun did not receive any more fixes and database updates, I more or less took over the maintenance from Andr