I don’t have commit rights in darktable and I didn’t knew how to code in C 4 months ago, so yes, I pulled my fingers out of my a** and 4 months later, I’m the second most active contributor for the whole year. I finally learned C after I understood nobody cares about my feature requests on Redmine (and, as a matter of fact, very few people care about code pull requests as well, so if it weren’t for Pascal, I would have given up). Now, I feel bad for those who don’t have the ressources to do that.
Given that darktable is primarily an image processing software, I spend my time primarily on the color management, then the ergonomics, and finally on peripheric functionnalities. Sadly, I know nothing about Lua, let alone interfacing it with C…
Also, I criticize this habit of answering “my software is not that kind of software”, or “it is not intended to do that”, or just “move away I’m not interested” whenever people suggest something new, because it discourages both contributors and motivated users. It’s one thing to not have time, it’s another one to send people to hell and be defensive about new ideas. The most annoying users have been the most useful when I did filmic, and their feedback have helped me to improve the UI a lot. Nice satisfied users are nice, they give love but they don’t help improve. Annoying ones are better, and we should not disregard them.