sparkingdark
(Debojyoti Chakraborty)
October 12, 2025, 4:29pm
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Hello everyone,
I am using darktable for a while and since it’s a oss project. I am curious to know how it developed from a idea to reality. I searched in Google but their are not much resources about it’s history. So I want to know is there any other place to look for the history of darktable.
Thanks
bastibe
(Bastian Bechtold )
October 12, 2025, 5:16pm
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You could check out the release notes, and its history. Changes are meticulously documented in the release notes.
EspE1
October 13, 2025, 1:07am
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This thread may contain some information of interest for you:
For anyone who approach FOSS photo processing programs nowadays there are two dominating raw developers, dt and RT, (with their fairly recent forks, Ansel and ART).
Those who have been around since the creation of the earth, know the history behind this situation. Could some of you please inform a rookie in a few words about this? Was there just two independent projects that grew in different places/minds at about the same time, or was one created as an alternative to the first one, and in case…