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On Dec. 14, 2022, 15:48, at 15:48, Marc Cabuy <[email protected]> wrote: >To all dt developers, > >Version 4.0 has really impressed me further, but also some die-hard LR >users to whom I demonstrated it in my photoclub. So really THANK YOU >VERY >MUCH too. > >Mar > >Op wo 14 dec. 2022 21:08 schreef Pascal Obry <[email protected]>: > >> >> 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! >> >> -- >> Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) >> >> The best way to travel is by means of imagination >> >> http://www.obry.net >> >> gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B >> >> >____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >> [email protected] >> >> > >____________________________________________________________________________ >darktable user mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to >[email protected] ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
