[Kde-imaging] Proposal for a possible future

[Aurelien Gateau]

Hello,

Here is a proposal to address the current problem. Roughly speaking, KIPI is 
made of two parts: libkipi and the kipi-plugins. To make sure every host app 
contribute, I suggest we first assign each plugin to a developer. This should 
ensure the maintenance load is shared among the different projects.
If every developer work on one or more plugins there are higher chances they 
will also patch libkipi if it causes some trouble in the plugins they 
maintain.

Here is a list of the current plugins:
- acquireimages
- batchprocessimages
- calendar
- cdarchiving
- findimages
- flickrexport
- galleryexport
- imagesgallery
- jpeglossless
- kameraklient
- mpegencoder
- printwizard
- rawconverter
- sendimages
- simpleviewerexport
- slideshow
- timeadjust
- wallpaper

And the list of potential maintainers:
- Digikam
 - Joern Ahrens
 - Tom Albers
 (Unfortunately Gilles gave up)
- Gwenview
 - Aurélien Gâteau
- ShowImg
 - Richard Groult
- KPhotoAlbum
 - Jesper K Perdersen

There are 18 plugins and 5 maintainers. This means 3 or 4 plugins per 
developer. It sounds reasonable to me. Do you agree to try this before we 
decide KIPI is dead and buried?

Regards,
  Aurélien