[Kde-imaging] ROADMAP/TODO ?

[Caulier Gilles]

Le jeudi 17 Juin 2004 18:14, Jesper K. Pedersen a écrit :
> On Thursday 17 June 2004 18:00, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | Looking at how there's a lot of activity in libkipi and kipi-plugins, and
> | taking into account the fact that Jesper would like to start using KIPI
> | releases, I think we need some kind of ROADMAP/TODO to define what
> | remains to be done before we can consider KIPI ready and can freeze the
> | API.
> |
> | Here is my own list:
> | - Find an agreement on the way KIPI plugins should import images. We
> | started to discuss this with Jesper on a late evening, but stopped
> | because of tiredness :-)
> | - Make a decision on some terms: should we use "album" or "image
> | collection" or both (if so, explain the difference in a README file)
> | - Use d pointers in all public classes. This is necessary to achieve
> | binary compatibility.
> | - Fix configure scripts (Slideshow problems).
> | - Set in stone the category list.
> |
> | What do you think about this? If everyone find this useful, we could
> | create a TODO file in libkipi.
>
> I think this is a good idea.
> How should we discuss this? Email/IRC/Jabber?
>
> I do of course have lots of comments for each of the items above already,
> but lets not start the discussion before we have decided what to discuss
> plus how to discuss.
>
> Let me add to the list:
> - Binary Compatibility
> - How do we handle changes in the future
> - How do we versioning KIPI and its plugins in the future (Is there a way
> where we can prevent host apps from crashing due to a wrong version)
>
> I think we need to have one thing in mind wrt to the above:
> We have now 3 independent apps using KIPI, 

...and a future another apps named Showimg. I have contacted the author 
(Richard Groult) and he is very interressing to port that on KIPI (actually 
ShowImg support DigikamPlugins !!!)

I will helped Richard to create a kipiinterface for Showimg in the future.


> with a few mores on their way. 
> It will be hard to get releases synchronized for all of these, still we
> will likely break BC at some point, and we need a way to resolve these
> issues, when we get to that discussion, I'd like to invite either David
> Faure or Simon Hausmann on these discussion, as they are much more
> experienced on these matters than any of us.
>
> Cheers
> Jesper

regards

Gilles