Exiv2 bug reports

[Andrey Goreev]

I don't think the community will let exiv2 disappear. There are too many good projects that use exiv2, e.g. digiKam and darktable.
At the same time I don't believe exiv2 will ever support video files well. Metadata of still images and metadata of video files are just way too different. 
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-------- Original message --------From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> Date: 2017-04-09  3:11 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Subject: Re: Exiv2 bug reports 
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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