Re: GSoC Idea: Integration of external RAW developer software

[Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris gmail com>]

Hi,
I asked on Gnome's GSoC list and, yes, f-spot falls under the scope of Gnome GSoC, at least in principle, since it is a gnome application. The alternative would be to implement this feature for the gnome "photos" app, but I don't know if, at this point, that app is mature enough for that. I have CC'd this mail to them and while we see if there feedback about this from the Gnome side, I will start working on a formal proposal, if that is ok with you, and looking at the code to see how the technical aspects of this idea would work.

Thanks,
Camilo

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From: Stephen Shaw <sshaw decriptor com>
Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: GSoC Idea: Integration of external RAW developer software
To: Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris gmail com>
Cc: f-spot-list gnome org

I think it would be great to have someone work on f-spot and would be happy to mentor anyone that is willing to work on it. However, the only issue I can see with this is that I don't know if f-spot is part of any GSOC group. There was a try to get monkey space/square as an organization, but it was turned down.  F-Spot is an app on gnome and if its a project they are willing to support with GSOC, I'd be more than happy to have you work on it.

Thanks,

Stephen Shaw

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris gmail com> wrote:

Hello f-spot devs and users,

my name is Camilo, I am a student and amateur photographer. For my photo organization needs, I use shotwell, but there is one thing that I miss from that software: a way of seamlessly exporting photos to be developed in external RAW software like rawstudio, ufraw, darktable, etc. I think this should happen as transparently as possible to the user, in a way that does not affect the photo manager's database. The developed jpeg should then be linked to the original RAW, as a version of the original, in f-spot parlance.

Last year I submitted a patch to rawstudio for it to work in a "client-mode", that is, emulating ufraw, including accepting the same command line options. The purpose of this being, that the manager software can specify a target file (jpeg) it wants the development to be saved on exit.

My idea was to integrate this with Shotwell during this year's Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of GNOME, and for this purpose I submitted a proposal. Sadly, while they were very enthusiastic about the project, there is no developer available at this point of time to mentor me.

So, because this is something I'd very much like to see in at least one free software photo manager, I am submitting the proposal to you.

Here is more info about the proposal:
http://polymeris.github.io/shotwell-wiki/Home

Including my GNOME application:
http://polymeris.github.io/shotwell-wiki/GNOME-Application

Now, this would needs, of course, to be adapted to f-spot, and I must admit I am not familiar with its codebase, while to Shotwell I had already contributed. I am willing to study it, though, and, during the pre-gsoc time, contribute a few bug fixes or minor features to help me understand it better.

What do you think is the feasibility of and interest in this feature for f-spot? Is there a mentor available?

Any comments are welcome.

Regards,
Camilo

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