digiKam '97

[Gilles Caulier]

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Gilles Caulier

2017-01-15 20:53 GMT+01:00 Simon Frei <freisim93 at gmail.com>:

> Hi Dan,
>
> I get your points about Github, but I don't think that is going to
> happen. The devs putting in most of the time into digikam are accustomed
> to the current process - that's probably it. Saying that, there is a
> mirror on github:
> https://github.com/KDE/digikam
> It even seems like PRs are activated, but that is not used. Use patches
> to bugtracker instead.
>
> There is pixls.us, which is a FOSS photography site with a discourse
> community. It already hosts the official forums of software like
> RawTherapee, Gimp, darktable... There could probably also be a section
> for digiKam. Downside: It's another channel that needs to be monitored,
> so it will probably be neglected.
>
> The view of the bugtracker you linked to is arguably too fractured into
> topics. The view most similar to githubs issue tracker is found via
> search when choosing digikam as product (http://tinyurl.com/j4drwz6).
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> On 15/01/17 20:38, Dan Dascalescu wrote:
> > 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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