digiKam '97

[Simon Frei]

Hi Dan,

I get your points about Github, but I don't think that is going to
happen. The devs putting in most of the time into digikam are accustomed
to the current process - that's probably it. Saying that, there is a
mirror on github:
https://github.com/KDE/digikam
It even seems like PRs are activated, but that is not used. Use patches
to bugtracker instead.

There is pixls.us, which is a FOSS photography site with a discourse
community. It already hosts the official forums of software like
RawTherapee, Gimp, darktable... There could probably also be a section
for digiKam. Downside: It's another channel that needs to be monitored,
so it will probably be neglected.

The view of the bugtracker you linked to is arguably too fractured into
topics. The view most similar to githubs issue tracker is found via
search when choosing digikam as product (http://tinyurl.com/j4drwz6).

Cheers,
Simon

On 15/01/17 20:38, Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been using various image management software for the past 15
> years or so, and this weekend I've (re)discovered digiKam. Quite an
> impressive and polished piece of software. Thank you for making it free.
>
> Any chance to also polish the user experience around it, i.e. the
> online community? For example,
>
> * The mailing list is a pain. Don't get me wrong, I've been using
> mailing lists since '94, gone through Yahoo and Google Groups, have
> set up a bunch of online forums (e.g.
> https://forum.quantifiedself.com), but we do have Discourse.org
> nowadays. There's no web interface to search digikam-users, which is a
> shame. I'm not going to download all gzips
> from https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/, unpack them, then
> grep through them, and I suspect nobody else will, nowadays. Please do
> consider migrating to a modern forum software with a usable web
> interface (BTW, the link to the web interface
> at https://www.digikam.org/?q=support#mailinglists is broken).
> Discourse has a ton of import scripts
> - https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/script/import_scripts
>
> * Please host or mirror the code on GitHub. It's hands down the most
> active place for OSS development nowadays. I've spotted typos in the
> digiKam UI that would be a breeze to submit a fix for if the code were
> on GitHub.
>
> * Likewise, the issue tracker is antiquated. If I try searching for
> something
> at https://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?product=digikam, I get
> completely irrelevant results. GitHub issues have been working for
> many prominent projects more than fine.
>
> * The FAQ at https://www.digikam.org/?q=faq/digikam is woefully
> incomplete for such a complex piece of software. Please put it on a
> wiki so everyone can edit it. GitHub offers a nice Wiki engine.
>
> Thank you,
> Dan