Re: [Shotwell] Taking over

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Hi,

> Hi Jens,
>
> Really excited to have someone pick up the torch.
>
> As far as low-ish hanging features there's a neat branch with some map
> features: https://github.com/abrauchli/shotwell/commits/libchamplain
> which last I tried (2013?) worked pretty well.

Still have to look at it but sounds interesting.

> My big wishlist one is faster importing, there's a lot of work that
> later gets re-done during import or the results of which end up being
> discarded, so it can take quite a while even on a modern machine to
> import a good number of photos, and frustratingly the cpu utilization
> during this period isn't even all that high.

Noted.

> What's the reference as far as an issue tracker right now?

GNOME Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=shotwell

> -Joe
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Ulf Rehmann
> <rehmann math uni-bielefeld de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jens Georg,
> >
> > Welcome! That's nice to hear:
> >
> > | I picked up Shotwell as a new maintainer today. There will be no
> > | immediate bang of new features, I'm trying to get a grip on the
> > current
> > | state.
> >
> > | This is what I'm planning to do:
> > |  - Release a 0.22.1 today/tomorrow to get the translation
> > improvements
> > | out
> > |  - Use the week-end for a bug scrub and prioritisation to
> > |   - Figure out low-hanging fixes and improvements
> > |   - Get a grip on the currently most pressing issues
> > |   - Come up with some kind of roadmap
> >
> > It would be great if this one could soon be fixed:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1511914
> >
> > All the best,
> > Ulf
> >
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