Tag Archives: f-spot

On F-Spot maintainership

Posted on Thursday December 22, 2011 by Ruben

From the category of news I’ve been planning to send out for months, yet never got round to doing: With life work getting in the way, it’s been impossible for me to further maintain F-Spot. Fortunately, Stephen Shaw has offered … Continue reading →

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Linux Format #140

Posted on Thursday January 6, 2011 by Ruben

Apparently my head was on the front page of Linux Format Magazine #140: Good thing someone told me or I would have missed it. The interview (which I unfortunately can’t share) covers F-Spot, Mono, photography on the free desktop and … Continue reading →

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F-Spot going cross-platform

Posted on Sunday December 26, 2010 by Ruben

Timothy Howard started working on the heroic effort to port F-Spot to Windows. Still tons of work left to do, so it will take some time before this is anywhere near usable but it does seem to come along nicely. … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 Released!

Posted on Sunday December 19, 2010 by Ruben

We’ve just pushed out a stable bugfix release for F-Spot: 0.8.1. This version contains a lot of crash fixes as well as a large number of updated translations. Upgrading is highly recommended. Some highlights: A fix for the rather annoying … Continue reading →

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Renaissance man: Legal

Posted on Saturday October 9, 2010 by Ruben

commit 9e22fb3ccf56520c298fcc8bd95697c3d6f8adbd Author: Ruben Vermeersch <ruben@savanne.be> Date:   Sat Oct 9 13:58:34 2010 +0200 Change license to MIT X11. Many months ago I started contacting all F-Spot contributors and now I am happy to announce that the process has been completed: … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.8.0 Released!

Posted on Wednesday September 15, 2010 by Ruben

We are happy to announce that F-Spot 0.8.0 has been released! This is the first stable release since 0.6.2 back and packs a large number of new features as well as improvements. Nearly 300 bugs were closed during this cycle. … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.7.3 Released!

Posted on Thursday September 9, 2010 by Ruben

We’ve just rolled out F-Spot 0.7.3. This release, combined with a number of bugfixes that are planned to land over the weekend, will lead to the stable 0.8.0 release next week. In this release you will find more bug fixes … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.7.2 Released!

Posted on Wednesday August 11, 2010 by Ruben

I’ve just pushed F-Spot 0.7.2 out into the world, four weeks after the F-Spot 0.7.1 release. This was a very busy cycle (in part due to GUADEC), but despite all that we’ve continued our path of fixing loads of bugs … Continue reading →

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Diving into the unknown: Looking for a new job

Posted on Tuesday July 20, 2010 by Ruben

After long and careful consideration, I’ve made the decision to announce that I will be quitting my PhD position in a few months. I firmly believe that you should do what you are passionate about and over the past few … Continue reading →

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F-Spot 0.7.1 Released!

Posted on Wednesday July 14, 2010 by Ruben

Four weeks after F-Spot 0.7.0, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of the second release in the 0.7 development series: F-Spot 0.7.1. This series will lead up to the release of F-Spot 0.8.0, which is scheduled for the … Continue reading →

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