Re: Joining in the fun?

[Stephen Shaw <sshaw decriptor com>]

Hi, its awesome to see someone else interested in helping out!  I have
a big commit to push to f-spot soon.  I'd heavily recommend developing
against master though since I've made a ton of changes to things.

As far as maintainers go, I've taken the assumption that most
(probably all) have moved on and doubt you'd be stepping on anyones
toes.  I've wondered actually about removing the plugins from f-spot
and instead providing them through an online service (free) since
mono-addins has that feature built in.  This way plugins can be
updated and pushed without having to roll a new version of f-spot.

Something that's odd/interesting about the facebook export tool is
that it works for me.  I'm wondering if there is a certain case that
causes the problem.

Cheers,
Stephen

PS.  I'm thinking about setting up an Open Build Service account on
build.opensuse.org and providing development packages so that people
can test them before a release.

In about 3 weeks when I'm down with this semester I'll also start
having more time.

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 00:27, Nguyen Matthieu <nguyen matthieu gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I've been a long time user of f-spot for... well... 5 years, ever since I
> got my first digital camera. I've seen it rise (yay) but I've also seen it
> fall (oh noes), with development falling behind. I've read the various
> reasons on the mailing list archives, and I thought it would be a pity if
> all went to waste.
>
> I didn't raise my hand when a new maintainer/head developer was sought out,
> because I don't have the time nor ability to take it upon me (my core
> developer experience is more around Java/J2EE).
>
> However, I think after all F-spot has helped me with my picture library,
> it's high time I contribute back whatever I can.
>
> I know the usual recommendations for jumping in FOSS projects is to start
> small, submitting a bug or making translations/doc, but I think f-spot has
> enough bug reports as it is ;).
>
> I built locally and loaded in MonoDevelop the stable-0.8 branch, to see if I
> would be able to find my way around things easily, and started to see if I
> would manage to analyse even a simple bug.
>
> I picked 624414 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624414) because
> I reproduce it myself, so it would be easier to investigate.
>
> I think I got part of the answer, though, but would need some help:
>
> Analysis: I added more log information to check what was actually sent back
> by Facebook, the list of albums is an empty XML document. According to the
> FB developer documentation, the app requires the user_photos permission in
> order to be able to read Albums:
> https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/album/. I don't think the
> F-Spot Export Plugin App *has* this authorization (I actually checked that
> too).
>
> Question: who's the F-Spot Export Plugin App owner on facebook?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthieu Nguyen
>
> --
> Nguyen Matthieu
>
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