[Digikam-devel] git-annex support?

[Gilles Caulier]

2014-03-05 21:33 GMT+01:00 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
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>> So, a simple question:
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>> Assuming a well-written patch, is this something that would be likely to
>> be merged? Note that I'm willing to do the hard work here.
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> My answer is: it depends ;-)
> First, on Gilles' opinion of course.
>
> In principal, I agree that such a form of storage management could provide a
> very interesting option for the scenario we face today (NAS, desktop, laptop,
> tablet, smartphone)
>
> digikam's architecture is prepared to manage files that are currently not
> locally available - information, metadata and thumbnails are stored in a
> database so the thumbnail view will work. This is not enabled at the moment
> (offline collections are hidden) because the UI part is unimplemented,
> stopping at a point when the real file is not there and telling the user.
> A good part of work.
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> A git-annex integration can be acceptable if it can be implemented non-
> intrusively. That means not rewriting large parts of code by adding a "second
> case", but
> 1) a small API layer to interface with git-annex from C++, thread-safe,
> probably task based
> 2) a few small additions down at the ImageScanner
> 3) a background service for management, things like file dowloading
> 4) the UI bits as outlined above.
> My first initial thoughts.
>
> Be warned that this would be a fair amount of work.

Marcel,

The git-annex support can be a good initiative in the future.

As you said, this can be a project with a lots of work. Do you think
this can be delegate to a student for GSoC ?

I would to know the advantage and the disadvantages for a king of
feature. Do you know if a professional photo management program use
already a similar function in closed world ?

Gilles