digiKam '97

[Dan Dascalescu]

Hello everyone,

I've been using various image management software for the past 15 years or
so, and this weekend I've (re)discovered digiKam. Quite an impressive and
polished piece of software. Thank you for making it free.

Any chance to also polish the user experience around it, i.e. the online
community? For example,

* The mailing list is a pain. Don't get me wrong, I've been using mailing
lists since '94, gone through Yahoo and Google Groups, have set up a bunch
of online forums (e.g. https://forum.quantifiedself.com), but we do have
Discourse.org nowadays. There's no web interface to search digikam-users,
which is a shame. I'm not going to download all gzips from
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-users/, unpack them, then grep
through them, and I suspect nobody else will, nowadays. Please do consider
migrating to a modern forum software with a usable web interface (BTW, the
link to the web interface at https://www.digikam.org/?q=support#mailinglists
is broken). Discourse has a ton of import scripts -
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/script/import_scripts

* Please host or mirror the code on GitHub. It's hands down the most active
place for OSS development nowadays. I've spotted typos in the digiKam UI
that would be a breeze to submit a fix for if the code were on GitHub.

* Likewise, the issue tracker is antiquated. If I try searching for
something at https://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?product=digikam, I
get completely irrelevant results. GitHub issues have been working for many
prominent projects more than fine.

* The FAQ at https://www.digikam.org/?q=faq/digikam is woefully incomplete
for such a complex piece of software. Please put it on a wiki so everyone
can edit it. GitHub offers a nice Wiki engine.

Thank you,
Dan
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