Exiv2 bug reports

[Gilles Caulier]

Robin talk about Andreas, the original author of Exiv2. He is a very good
developer. I meet him in the real life, through a digiKam developer reunion.

For a work opportunity, he is less and less available to maintain Exiv2
since few years now. Robin take the role of manager as well, but i suspect
that the communication is not perfect between both. Robin management is
special, and personalty, i don't like how he communicate with the team
members the other client project using Exiv2.

But this is just my viewpoint.

Gilles Caulier

2017-04-09 22:58 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com>:

> Take it slowly. We don't know the history behind all this (at least
> that's the impression I get from the votes so far).
> The way I interpret that post is, that there is a founder or other kind
> of leader that is only partially involved in maintaining exiv2, but has
> all the keys to the infrastructure in his hand. This needs to be somehow
> resolved between this person and the people doing the heavy lifting on
> the code.
> Calling for taking over exiv2 either as a fork or integrating in digiKam
> (very bad option in my opinion) is certainly not a good idea. The core
> team working on digiKam is doing a great job, but certainly has enough
> on its plate as it stands. digiKam isn't the only software to use exiv2,
> so going ahead unilateral is anyway inpractical.
>
> On 09/04/17 22:50, jdd wrote:
> > Le 09/04/2017 à 22:44, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> >> A fork is a possibility. Typically, i proposed to the rest of the team
> >> to directly integrate Exiv2 core somewhere in digiKam core, with some
> >> part removed that we don't use, as ssh and web support.
> >>
> >> Forking Exiv2 will be not simple to maintain. Even if all the image
> >> support is well implemented in Exiv2, there are always tags list to
> >> improve. For the video support a lots of code need to be review and
> >> stabilized. So, it's a long work to do, and we have also a lots of bugs
> >> to fix in digiKam.
> >>
> >> So the decision is not simple to take. I'm shared...
> >>
> >
> > reading the post it looks like the author is ready to do the task, may
> > be needs only support and infrastructure?
> >
> > did you contact him directly?
> >
> > sorry, I'm in no way able to help you on programming :-(
> >
> > jdd
> >
>
>
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