[Kde-imaging] Future of KIPI - waitaminute, please

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

First of all, please excuse me the late answer, I'm on a business trip (well 
I'm with a customer, and has been so since September).

I'm the developer of KPhotoAlbum (previously known as KimDaBa), and I strongly 
urges you to reconsider killing KIPI.

I agree that I haven't contributed much to KIPI lately, but on the other hand 
I don't contribute much to other libraries that KPhotoAlbum uses, such as 
KDE-libs, KExiv2 etc. 
On my side I considered KIPI in good hands and went on focuses on other parts. 
I haven't implemented a single feature in KPhotoAlbum that could have been 
located in KIPI, actually on the contrary, I'm slowly working on a Bibble 
integration plugin.

My contribution to KIPI are on the other hand not non-existent - I try to keep 
it at a marketing level. I did for example do a KIPI tutorial at the latest 
KDE conference, and in one of the upcoming month there is a large article on 
KIPI on a German Linux magazine.

Besides I spent literally man month up front designing+developing KIPI, and 
doing the basic port of most digiKam plugins to KIPI, with a lot of help from 
Gilles.

As I said, I strongly urges you to keep KIPI alive, if not for me, then for 
all the users we share, who enjoyes their favorite features in all of the 
KIPI enabled applications.

Kind Regards
Jesper.

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