I also would like to express my appreciation to all the developers of DT. I am currently testing the Windows build every week and have watched the program continue to improve. Job well done. And DT is more than a single developer who in the past has contributed significantly with his work.
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 08:07, I. Ivanov <iv3...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you to all developers! > > Truly an amazing work and dedication! > > Regards, > > B > On 12/14/22 11:58, Pascal Obry wrote: > > Hello! > > I'd like to take some time, while we are all waiting for the 4.2 > release, to send you a little message about darktable. > > This release cycle has seen lot of improvements as previous releases. > We had also some divergences with one developer and the signal sent was > certainly not good or worrisome for some of you. > > Fact is that the team behind darktable is strong and working very hard > in many aspects of the project. > > Some people gain more visibility because they work on GUI part that are > directly visible by end-users. But there is also some people working on > part of the code that you do not see directly but that makes darktable > internal better. > > I'd like to thank Hanno Schwalm and Ralf Brown for their work on > performances, tweaking OpenCL code path and OpenMP to use every cycles > of your CPU. > > I'd like to thank Hanno Schwalm also for working on new highlight > recovery algorithms. > > I'd like to thank Diederik ter Rahe for looking into Gtk issues and > proposing a very impressive framework for shortcuts. And to achieve > that, lot of code refactoring has been done. Some Gtk parts are looking > like black magic to me :) > > I'd like to thank Roman Lebedev for the hard work in rawspeed. Without > this project darktable won't be there. Also Miloš Komarčević working on > rawspeed and many RAW formats support. > > I'd like to thank Victor Forsiuk for working on image input/output > support and fixing a huge number of spelling typos. > > I'd like to thank Aldric Renaudin for the continued effort on the > lighttable filters and UI. > > I'd like to thank Nicolas Auffray for taking over the UI effort and > doing magic with CSS. > > I'd like to thank Bill Fergusson for maintaining the Lua framework. > > I'd like to thank rawfiner for checking noise profiles and making sure > they are in good shape for integration. > > I'd like to thank Simone Gotti for working on a new lens correction > method based on meta-data. > > I'd like to thank all the testers and reviewers (Chris Elston, Martin > Straeten, parafin, Mark-64, and others) making sure we do not introduce > more issues than we are fixing. Also thanks for Chris for reading my > English in the RELEASE_NOTES and correcting it. > > I'd like to thank parafin and Bill Fergusson for creating the release > binaries for MacOS and Windows. And Andreas Schneider as maintainer of > the OBS platform for creating the GNU/Linux binaries. > > I'd like to thank Sakari Kapanen for helping with color science. > > I'd like to thank Jakob Andrén for the long journey at making Sigmoid a > viable alternative to FilmicRGB. > > I'd like to thank all the translators bringing to us an interface in > our native language. > > I won't name them, but also remember that darktable is Open Source and > we leverage on many other Open Source projects/libraries (to handle > Jpeg, TIFF, AVIF, HEIF, PNG... tether with camera, handle SVG, > colors...). I'm even pretty sure that there is far more code in the > dependencies we are using than in darktable itself. > > And finally I'd like to thank all people that I have forgotten in the > list above. I'm sorry if I missed you. > > A darktable release is a huge amount of work and the darktable team is > wonderful. I'm really happy to be part of it, let's the aventure > continue. > > Have all a nice end of year! > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > -- Terry Pinfold Photography & Imaging Tutor Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Ph 0408 699053 ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
