The+Project

=Shotwell=

About
Our project this semester will be the open source project Shotwell. Shotwell is an open source photo organization application for the Linux GNOME desktop environment. Shotwell is primarily developed by a non-profit software group called Yorba out of San Francisco, California; and is the pre-installed photo manager for Ubuntu and Fedora. Shotwell is a digital photo organizer that runs on Linux. It is the default photo manager in [|Ubuntu] and [|Fedora].

We chose this project because of its community, which seems to be thriving. Even though the development team seems to be small they have things organized and it looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to jump in. According to Shotwell's Wiki, //the[| list of Shotwell tickets] shows all features and bug fixes planned for Shotwell. Contributions to Shotwell are always welcome. We're happy to receive patches containing new features or bug fixes, as well as bug reports, translations, artwork or documentation.// Our main consideration was the vast amount of documentation contained in the Wiki, which includes these //how-to's//:
 * the extensive [|architecture overview] describing Shotwell's various subsystems and data structures,
 * the Yorba [|coding conventions],
 * the Shotwell [|coding guidelines],
 * how to [|write plugins] for Shotwell,
 * and the [|internationalization guide].

There are currently 336 bugs that are open to be fixed which gives us plenty of bugs to consider.

History
Shotwell was released on June 26, 2009. Shotwell replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions and Ubuntu in its since the 10.10 release. The current version of Shotwell is 0.11.6 and major new features include:
 * Tags can now be organized into hierarchical trees
 * Paired RAW + JPEG images are treated as a single photo when imported from a camera
 * Select different developers for RAW photos: use the development produced by Shotwell or by your camera
 * Shotwell now uses GSettings instead of GConf to store its configuration information
 * "Hide Photos Already Imported" setting persists between imports
 * Several all-new saved search options
 * JPEG mimics of RAW images are no longer stored in your home directory, and are now created on demand
 * Shotwell now supports Windows Bitmap (.bmp) images

Shotwell can be downloaded in either source or binary form from Yorba's [|download page].

More Information:

 * ====Official site====
 * ====Wiki====
 * ====Vala====

Yorba's Team Members:

 * ====[|Adam Dingle]====
 * ====[|Clinton Rogers]====
 * ====[|Eric Gregory]====
 * ====[|Jim Nelson]====
 * ====[|Lucas Beeler]====
 * ====[|Laura Khalil]====
 * ====[|Bruno Girin]====

Board of Directors

 * ====Adam Dingle====
 * ====Jim Nelson====
 * ====Dave Neary====