[Digikam-devel] Re: [Kde-imaging] digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0 beta4 is out...

[Gilles Caulier]

2011/4/10 Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The digiKam development team is happy to release the 4th release of
>> new digiKam Software Collection 2.0.0, including all GoSC
>> 2010 projects.
>>
>> For more details, see announcement on digikam.org:
>>
>> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/591
>
> Gilles, many thanks for your work on integrating the work of the
> MediaWiki students; I think great progress has been made, and I know
> the students are really happy to see their work is valued.
>
> I would just like to warn you that the MediaWiki / Wikimedia Commons
> export tool is not yet ready for release; it's ok to include it git
> for people who compile from source, but it shouldn't be part of a
> general release in its current state. There are a few bugs, as well as
> mandatory features that are still missing. I'll make a list of things
> that need to be fixed & added to make the plugin production-ready.
>
> If the plugin is released in its current state and people start using
> it, their account may be blocked by the Wikipedia & Commons community
> because the uploads don't conform to the community policies. It will
> cause frustration to our users, and it will make the Wikipedia &
> Commons community suspicious towards the plugin in the future.
>
> As you know, I'm eager to get the plugin released; we just need to
> polish it first. The plugin is an opportunity to recruit a lot of
> users, and I wouldn't want it to backfire on us.
>

Thanks Guillaume for your tips. I will disable the plugin in next beta5 release.

I supose that fixes must be done in libmediawiki, not in plugin as well.

Please remember me later when plugin can be re-enable. It's important...

Gilles