notification of approved filters

i submitted my first formal filter today to the upload area. i remember reading, either here or on retouchpro, that these arent automatically approved for use in FF. that's fine. i was just wondering how we find out if our filter has been approved or not. do we get an email, a notice here on the boards, something sent through FF or what? and if not approved, i'd like a notice also: 'sorry, your filter was not approved for our packaging. it's too similar to an existing filter.' something like that.

craig

Yesterday I received one filter submission rejection and I find the current reply to be a bit to vague:

[...]
The filter fails to meet one or more of the following guidelines:

Guidelines for filter quality:
- Filter Name should suggest the look and purpose of the filter.
- Description should tell users what the filter can be used for.
- Factory presets must be sufficiently different from each other.
- Control names should suggest the way the controls work.
- Keywords must be relevant to the filter.
[...]

It would be more helpful if in those mails you could point out what exactly was the reason for a rejection, as of course I personally thought that my filter did meet all the requirements. In the end I think this will save you unnecessary work because you don't have to check and reject resubmissions again and again.

Quasimondo, that's really strange -- I currently handle the submissions myself and I remember that I gave specific reasons for every rejected filter. Could you please remind me the names of your filters were rejected (Camouflage? Orange Something?).

The answer you quoted above is our template. It seems to me that our "rejection notes" edit field just doesn't work. Anyone else got a rejection without reasons?

Yes it was Camouflage - and I just checked the mail once again - there is no specific information given, just the text above and a link to the guidelines.

One of my submissions was most likly the orange something. It was orange roughy but I am way past that one now. As I now know better.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: It was orange roughy

... but it had green, blue, black, violet presets -- I just suggested to choose another name that doesn't reference a specific color.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: but it had green, blue, black, violet presets Smile -- I just suggested to choose another name that doesn't reference a specific color. Posted: May 28, 2006 12:23 pm

Sorry don't know where my head was. I changed the name and found other things to do with it then the more I looked at it the more I didn't really like it. So I worked on other filters.

>Yes, I clearly remember giving a specific reason -- anti-aliasing >problem (jaggy edges) and weird-colored presets which didn't look >like camouflage at all (pink glamour camouflage anyone? )

Alright I'll check out the problem with the jaggy edges. But I'd say that the pink glamour camouflage preset is negotiatable - at least over here in Germany I've seen "techno"-camouflage patterns in exactly those colourschemes...

Hi Vladimir.

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Yes, we notify authors of approval and yes, we give the reason if the filter was rejected

Still heard nothing on my filter. Not even a rejection. Did I submit it correctly?

Ken.

A quick note -- the approval pipeline is the biggest problem Filter Forge currently has. The software itself is quite stable, and the majority of bugs we've got from testers are already fixed. But the library and approval need quite a lot of reworking.

This is my number one priority at the moment.

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Kraellin wrote: you probably didnt want that to happen, but there it is.

Quite the opposite -- feel free to share! I hope you are aware of the Ctrl+L hotkey

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Quite the opposite -- feel free to share! I hope you are aware of the Ctrl+L hotkey

excellent!

craig