I was also perusing redmine and found duplicates and issues which have comments
the issue should be closed.
I can help either port redmine to github, or help manage the issue database on
occasion. (I would want rules to follow on how to handle issues).
Lastly, I would also be interested in funding some bounties.
Tim
------ Original message------From: Aurélien PierreDate: Fri, Sep 7, 2018 11:25
PMTo: darktable;Cc: Subject:[darktable-dev] How do you feel about code bounties
?
Hi everyone,
looking at the Redmine feature requests,
it seems that a lot of legitimate requests are left idle, and some
have been so for several years, generating duplicates. Most of
these features are cosmetic User Interface improvements or making
variables writable, such as :
delete some
EXIF+GPS meta-data in exported files (for privacy)
set the
export file resolution from paper size and printing DPI,
set the DPI value right in EXIF,
add/edit
unique names/titles for modules instances, also within
styles,
decompose
the darkroom history by module AND module controls
(decrease the history granularity),
add more JPEG exportation options (progressive,
optimized,
subsampling),
apply conditional styles automatically (the same way as the
presets of the modules),
make styles hierarchical (to clean-up the list),
allow drawn
mask edition (size, feathering, opacity) from the masks
list and keyboard input values,
lock
position and size of drawn masks for safe panning/zooming,
EXIF
and IPTC
management/edition requests (date, time, names of lenses without
processor, scans with no/wrong metadata),
create
arbitrary collections/catalogs of images (ex : family,
perso, assignments),
implement
ESC and RETURN shortcuts in every dialog to cancel and
validate,
implement a
coarse/fine tuning option to increment/decrement values
with the mouse wheel
lots of small GTK glitches with scroll
bars, lighttable selections
and hovers,
link exported pictures paths to original RAW files,
allow to set the UI main color and create user-friendly
theme/template (whitout editing CSS),
etc.
Some are more algorithmically challenging :
make the RGB
gains independant in wavelets/non-locals means denoising
module,
rotate/flip the sampling patch in the spot removal module and
in the freshly merged retouch module,
add a color correction on A and B channels to fix the
desaturation happening in the local contrast module (laplacian)
with heavy settings,
display the
locked AF point on previews
detecting
duplicates and similar pictures in database
etc.
plus all the Windows portability issues.
And there are still #TODOs in the source code.
Most of these changes are for sure not the most challenging and
don't make for the sexiest coding party, so I have no trouble
imagining how little appealing they can be to hobbyist developers,
but they are nonetheless useful and game changing for
professionnals who are bound to efficiency constraints.
I find quite remarkable the dramatic improvements that software
such as Blender have known in the past decade, and though I get
why dt developers aren't thrilled by the admin overhead involved
in a similar fundation to pay full-time developpers, I think the
above requests will stay idle for some more time if we don't go
next-level. That would be a shame considering the core is stable
and sane, and what is needed is mainly cosmetic.
As more and more professional photographers adopt dt in their job
and are asking for more efficency-driven features, I know that
some would be happy to fund developpers to smooth all the sharp
edges listed above. For now, the features that the developpers
don't need don't stand a chance to appear in the software.
So I found a platform where you could create a bounty for each
feature request/bug on Redmine, have users/donators fund the
requests they want in a crowdfunding way, hire freelancers to do
it, and take care of the payment : https://www.bountysource.com/.
You can create a dt group, link it to Github,
open/accept/close/pay the bounties, etc. Actually, it seems that
darktable has already a project page, but only linked to the
Github tracker :
https://www.bountysource.com/teams/darktable/issues.
Shouldn't we merge Github issues and Redmine bugs/FR, and promote
bountysource ?
Cheers,
Aurélien.
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