[KPhotoAlbum] kphotoalbum method of storing Tags, description

[Risto H. Kurppa]

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:
>> On 01/29/2012 12:50 AM, Miika Turkia wrote:
>>
>> It might not be trivial to write the code to add annotation to a picture,
>> BUT I am absolutely certain it can be done without corrupting the image.
>> <time passes>  I just did it with digikam and verified that it is in the
>> file with exifprobe - all the camera data is intact.

As Miika said, it is possible to write code to implement this.

However, in projects like this, to implement new features, two types
of people are needed (who can be one person):
(1) the developer one who WRITES the code. Anyone with the skills is
free to do this, no matter what others think.
(2) the project maintainer one who ACCEPTS the code to be integrated.
Here the acceptance of the community is very useful but not a must.

The community members with no coding skills has no ways to push the
developers to implement anything. We can only add wishlist items (see
http://tinyurl.com/kpa-wishlist ) and hope that someone picks our
ideas up. In that sense, only the developers have the power. But on
the other hand when a developer writes the code, he has no way to be
sure that the project maintainers will accept it. So in that sense the
power is divided between the developers and project maintainers. The
rest of us can only make wishes and hope that the project goes into
the direction that makes us happy.

In KPhotoalbum's  case, Jesper/blackie has been the one with the
'final word' what will be committed and what not. Now as he's focusing
on other stuff and there are around 5 people (just a guess) with
commit rights, again I want to remind that some kind of common vision
/ direction / roadmap would be useful. It'd help both the developer
and non-developer community to see what's the direction the project
maintainers want to take the project.

My 2 cents.


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