digiKam '97

[Dan Dascalescu]

Thank you for the Nabble link, but Nabble is pretty terrible too. It
returns completely bogus search results when I search for my name:
http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=1695700&query=dascalescu
returns five messages instead of two threads, and none of them actually
contains "dascalescu". Here's a screenshot (assuming it goes through
Mailman - does it even support attachments? We're talking about photo
editing software, images would be a must):

[image: Inline image 1]

So the summary is that, basically, nothing is going to change?

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> gmane.org mailing list archive with search engine sound dead.
>
> You can use nabble instead :
>
> http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/
>
> 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/im
>> port_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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