<div dir="ltr">There is something that i don't understand well...<div><br></div><div>If the release depend only of the credential of Exiv2.org web site, there is only a right access to the website to only post and register the new release as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Releasing source code has nothing to do with a website !</div><div><br></div><div>For me it's a wrong problem : </div><div><br></div><div>1/ release the source code</div><div>2/ post the announcement</div><div><br></div><div>If 2/ cannot be done due to lack of credential, create a new web site as well.</div><div><br></div><div>But as i already recommended to Robin, the source code is the big priority. I have a big exprience in open source, i know Exiv2 source code also to have already contributed, and this is the main goal. Fix the problems with client applications :</div><div><br></div><div>1/ list all main problems</div><div>2/ order by priority</div><div>3/ fix step by step.</div><div>4/ release more frequently the library (not all the 2 years, but all 6 month)</div><div><br></div><div>I already talk with Robin about this topic. The feedback was been catastrophic. To resume : digiKam project is the heel and badly manged and implemented.</div><div><br></div><div>This is why, for now, you can forget to talk about Exiv2 project to me...</div><div><br></div><div>I seriously plan Exiftool migration. It will take a while but at least Exiftool is alive and constructive... I'm in contact with Exiftool team...</div><div><br></div><div>Voilà. This is just the viewpoint from an human who code a little bit at free time... </div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-25 8:39 GMT+02:00 NeiNei <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neinei@gmx.net" target="_blank">neinei@gmx.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
in addition to Pat's mail, Robin Mill made a new posting on the future of exiv 2 a few hours ago: <a href="http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/2830" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/<wbr>topics/2830</a><br>
As Pat noted, it seems that we still have to keep our fingers crossed.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 25.04.2017 03:00, Pat David wrote:<br>
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All,<br>
<br>
I've been in touch with Robin about this, and in fact we have a<br>
presentation at LGM this past weekend together.<br>
<br>
He and Andreas have come to hopefully resolve the problems, and he<br>
expects to have a release out as soon as possible (the GIMP team is also<br>
watching this).<br>
<br>
Robin is also planning on moving away from the project at the end of the<br>
year to go back to school, so he is actively looking for a new engineer<br>
to transition into the project and continue the work. It might be worth<br>
holding off for a little bit to see if releases start coming. I<br>
understand that the work is done on 27, it's just awaiting Andreas to be<br>
released, which should be soon (fingers crossed).<br>
<br>
Pat<br>
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:33 PM Jim Gomi <<a href="mailto:gomi@mailup.net" target="_blank">gomi@mailup.net</a><br></span><span class="">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:gomi@mailup.net" target="_blank">gomi@mailup.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 12:37 -0600, <a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a><br></span><span class="">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think we need to leave exiv2 as is for still images and find<br>
> something else for video files if possible...<br>
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I agree with this. For me the biggest problem with digikam is that I<br>
cannot store metadata inside video files.<br>
The digikam4.db database file is good but from experience I know that<br>
it can get corrupted and I relied on the image file metadata to restore<br>
it.<br>
<br>
> Once we know what we want to do for video files I can volunteer and<br>
> check every single tool availble on the web and come up with some<br>
> kind of report.<br>
<br>
That would be great.<br>
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