On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Iain Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings from your Debian and Ubuntu maintainer,
>
> f-spot hasn't seen any substantive code commit for several months
> now[0]. While development was rapid and exciting when Ruben took over,
> this momentum has sadly stalled, and I think we'll all agree that
> serious bug fixing and UI effort is needed. I have to admit that I've
> been recently using Shotwell because the experience just feels nicer.
>
> I've come to the upsetting conclusion that f-spot ought to be declared
> dormant until a new maintainer comes along to lead the project. In
> particular, without the prospect of bugs being looked at, I'd like to
> stop shipping it in distribution releases. It's especially going to be
> left behind with the migration to newer GNOME 3 technologies, not least
> of which is GTK+3.
>
> Do the developers agree?
>

Absolutely. I've been wanting to blog on this matter for a while now, but
I've never gotten round to doing that. Sad but correct.

-- 
Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
http://www.savanne.be/
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