Re: Thumbnailing service project; opinions, suggestions?

[Mark <markg85 gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Andrew Cowie
<andrew operationaldynamics com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:32 +0200, Mark wrote:
>> on school i study ...
>> So this project, described in depth below...
>
> Keep in mind that contribution to an open source project doesn't have to
> be bounded by school projects or an institution's academic calendar; you
> are welcome to continue participating in the evolution of GTK long into
> the future; indeed, people are going to be happier to work with you if
> they think that you're going to be around for a while, thereby making
> their investment in helping you more likely to have a long term impact.
I know. I did contribute patched to gnome and am around here for years
but just recently (as in the last few months) became capable of
"understanding" parts of glib and making patches for things that are
broken, have bugs or can be better (like:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594918)
>
> GTK is, of course, a very mature project (which in practise means it is
> a core piece of the infrastructure of a huge number of production [in
> use] systems), and it is worked on by people with a broad cross section
> of interests and needs.
In the end my project might be a pixbuf alternative ^_- . i might have
added that blink but that thought did cross my mind more then once and
if i optimize it the way i want (with opencl and such) then it might
just get close to a new proposal to replace gdk-pixbuf with
"Aldebaran" (the name of the project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran .. i kinda like star names)
with it's repo here: http://gitorious.org/aldebaran
Other then that there is no GTK coding involved in it. only Glib.
>
> Which is why you've noticed considerable discussion from your original
> message, and people adding other aspects to be considered, especially as
> the specific thing you proposed intersects with ongoing FreeDesktop and
> GNOME work. This may well take it out of the scope of something you can
> do in your available school time, but that's the reality of something
> that is as critical a player in the desktop as GTK. Regardless, I hope
> you will choose to participate in the broader development of the
> platform.
This project will, if i not keep it tightly in bounds, go out of
scope. So, there will probably be a future for this project but
probably not as a thumbnailing service. In the end (and now i speak of
one year from now) this project will either be dead or will be a image
(scaling) library which Tumbler might even use ;). Note. this is all
just guessing. it might end completely different
>
> Finally, I would observe that proposing ideas is important (including
> for helping find people who might mentor you), but the best way to show
> the quality of your idea is to write code implementing it and then
> submit a patch for consideration.
That is conflicting with others (although not said here). I used to
hear things like: make a design, make a proposal, see how that works
and then, if it's considered interesting write code. And that is
exactly how this is going. What you propose is what would have me
preference.
>
> AfC
> Sydney

Andrew, thank you for your nice post. It did give me some thought of
how this project might have evolved in roughly a year from now.