[Digikam-devel] Contribution and Mentorship Request.

[Gilles Caulier]

Parthasarathy,

Any progress in this work ? Do you have any question about ?

Best

Gilles Caulier

2011/12/30 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> Parthasarathy,
>
> Look at this line from kipi-plugins :
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/kipi-plugins/repository/revisions/master/entry/CMakeLists.txt#L449
>
> ... just uncomments these lines to working on. this will enable
> mediawiki tool for compilation.
>
> For multiple reasons, this tool is not able to be used properly in
> production, especially with wikipedia. This tool use a shared library
> named libmediawiki here :
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/libs/libmediawiki
>
> There is nothing special to do in this lib. Only plugin need to be
> patched to support some missing features, descibed in this bugzilla
> entry :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206842#c11
>
> Guillaume Paumier work at wikipedia organization. You can talk with
> him through this bugzilla entry for details. In this comment #11, he
> explain all missing features to switch this tool in production.
>
> Also, from my viewpoint, the site manager is very basic in this tool
> and must be improved. Url are hardcode in tool. It's better to be able
> to edit url of remote web service and to store last used url in kipirc
> config file.
>
> To work on this subject, i recommend to use git/master code of digiKam
> software compilation, where kipi-plugins and libmediawiki are present
> :
>
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/graphics/digikam/digikam-software-compilation
>
> Follow README file to checkout all the rest of the code.
>
> To review your code, please post a patch against git/master in
> bugzilla entry #206842. Me and Guillaume we will take a look.
>
> Let's me hear if you need more information.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier