Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Erasmo Marín
As some of you know, I have worked in Foto, and I have already implemented some widgets that I think could be useful for Shotwell. I'm not going to maintain Foto anymore, so, some of my work could be used. I offer my help, but I can't take the responsability of maintaining shotwell as someone

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Tristan Petersen
Greetings, I have just recently joined this list and am eager to help out this community. I have had a lot of experience with Perl and C in the past, but I have not used them for a while and am very rusty there. I've also toyed around a bit with Mac OS X and iOS development (but have never

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Jim Nelson
Hello everyone, I just want to add to Daniel's announcement that I'm pleased to see elementary take up this torch and run with it. Shotwell is an important piece of software for me, both personally (as someone who devoted many hours to crafting it) as well as speaking as a Yorban. As

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Daniel Foré
Hey Erasmo, Every man counts! Even if it's just a small amount of time, it'd be great if we could get you helping out on Shotwell :) Looking forward to seeing your merge requests ;) On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Erasmo Marín erasmo.ma...@gmail.comwrote: As some of you know, I have worked

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Daniel Foré
Hey Tristan, We have a short guide on our website that talks all about how to set up a build environment (including getting started with launchpad and a little about cmake and packaging): http://elementaryos.org/docs/code To quickly get all the build dependencies, you can run this command in

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Tristan Petersen
Daniel, Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. The apt-get build-dep guidance was all I needed to move forward. I still ran into a few hiccups afterwards (had to install a newer version of GTK+ 3.0), but in the end I was able successful compile all the sources and build a binary

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Picking Up Shotwell Development

2014-01-24 Thread Daniel Foré
Hey Tristan, You'll want to hit the link that says propose branch for merging. This will alert other developers that your branch is ready to be reviewed. If your branch needs fixing, a reviewer will mark it as such and you'll be alerted. Otherwise it will be marked approved and merged :)