Re: [Banshee-devel-list] GCDS 2009 and Photos

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:53 PM, gnomeuser gmail com
<gnomeuser gmail com> wrote:
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> 2010/11/26 Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com>
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>> Hi
>> I am interested in seeing Photos in banshee;
>> Whatever happened to the development proposals from GCDS 2009 here:
>> http://download.banshee.fm/documents/banshee-gcds-09.pdf?
>> The idea of moving F-Spot into a Banshee extension seems amazing;
>> why has there been absolutely NO talk on this matter since 2009???
>> Will the features proposed here make it into Banshee before the 2.0
>> feature freeze on version 1.9.5 (March 9 2011), and if these features are
>> still planned, when are they going to enter Alpha, Beta, and Final?
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> Photo management is done in F-Spot which during the 0.7.x and now 0.8.x
> stable series has been moved to use Hyena. A database and cool stuff library
> which was previously part of Banshee but is now a separate project on
> git.gnome.org. So this plan has largely already come to fruition without
> people paying much attention despite this being a big improvement for F-Spot
> and one that ensures it a bright future.
> This move for F-Spot will amongst other things mean that they can now redo
> their UI to be really cool, so look out for RubenV and his merry men in
> coming time.

As is usually the case in open-source development, the speed at which
this will happen is greatly dependent on the amount of time people
spend on it. I for one have very little time currently to work on
this, so unless someone else does it, it won't be happening very soon.

Ruben