Re: Joining in the fun?

[Matthieu Nguyen <nguyen matthieu gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Stephen Shaw <sshaw decriptor com> wrote:

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.

I was hesitating building and testing against master because I was afraid maybe the DB schema would have changed and would make my photos.db *not* work anymore on a stock 0.8.2. But I couldn't find any DB schema changes in the Git log, so I'll try that...
 

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.

Well, in that case, I wonder if it would be possible to add me in the facebook F-Spot Export plugin app Admins (profile is https://www.facebook.com/matthieu.nguyen ), so that I can fix the authorizations setting and see why the app page does not display on FB anymore. (Still haven't found the owner/contact for the page). I tried setting up my own app and use that instead, but that gave me other problem as I couldn't authenticate anymore, which made me think that maybe new apps don't support the legacy authentication scheme, so setting up my new app would force a rewrite of the whole plugin using OAuth 2.0 and the Graph API, or the facebook c# sdk, or both.
 

 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.

Makes sense, as long as you can configure version compatibility/incompatibility.
 

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.

Or maybe there's a certain case that makes you *avoid* the problem :D. Does the plugin let you pick your albums freely? What are the authorizations you gave the app in FB (or the ones it asked for...)?
 

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.

Nice :).

Br,

Matthieu

 

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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