New digikam website source available from KDE's git server

[Gilles Caulier]

2017-04-01 14:56 GMT+02:00 Pat David <patdavid at gmail.com>:

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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:19 PM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On the download section, there are too much text to read to find the
>> right version.
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> Agreed!  This is one of the pages I was hoping to rewrite soon to be a
> little clearer.  I had written some small OS detection script I use on
> www.gimp.org to show the most likely relevant download to users when they
> visit the page - I could possibly re-use that here if you wanted.
>

Yes i vote for. OS detection will simplify user life.

>
> Either way, the page is on the to-do list to re-write to be more direct
> and clear. :)
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>> To resume :
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>> - screenshots stored in local or not ?
>> - If stored in local (git), this is acceptable by KDE team to overload
>> the repository with this kind of huge data ?
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> Re: Screenshots
>
> I know that historically you've hosted your photos on Flickr.  This is
> fine, but I would personally suggest hosting them locally if possible.
>
> The reason is that if Flickr, for any reason, goes dark - then you'll have
> a huge amount of dead images across your site.  I'd hate for that to
> happen!  Even worse, if the images aren't stored anywhere else then there's
> a chance you'll lose the mapping of what those images should be. :(
>
> In git, we'll have them and won't have to worry about it (and we don't
> have to worry about a database not liking them on the backend anymore).
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> I don't think there's a _huge_ amount of files/sizes to worry about, but I
> guess it's up to Ben to let us know if that'll be ok.
>

So we wait Ben response for that.

Gilles Caulier
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