including libkmap and libkface to kdegraphics/libs for KDE 4.6...

[Gilles Caulier]

Thanks Albert to guide me...

2010/11/5 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> A Divendres, 5 de novembre de 2010, Gilles Caulier va escriure:
>> Hi KDE release team,
>
> Hi
>
>>
>> This summer, digiKam team has work on 2 new features : face detection
>> and reverse geocoding.
>>
>> These features have been implemented using Google Summer of code 2010.
>> You can see more information at these pages :
>>
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2010
>>
>> For Face detection we have implemented a shared library named "libkface"
>>
>> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/extragear/graphics/libkface/
>>
>> For Reverse-Geocoding we have implemented another shared library named
>> "libkmap"
>>
>> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/extragear/graphics/libkmap/
>>
>> Both libraries are hosted in a dedicated branche from KDE subversion
>> repository.
>>
>> As you can see, in digiKam release plan, 2.0 version is planed for may 2011
>> :
>>
>> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/about/releaseplan
>>
>> To be able to share this libraries between digiKam/kipi-plugins and
>> others part of KDE applications, we have planed to move this code from
>> GoSC2010 branche to kdegraphics/libs. Remember that digiKam team
>> already maintain 3 shared libraries named libkipi, libkexiv2, and
>> libkdcraw.
>>
>> To have digiKam and kipi-plugins 2.0 compatibile with KDE 4.6, it will
>> be nice to move libkmap and libkface to kdegraphics/libs soon, if you
>> are agree of course.
>
> They need to go thorugh kdereview first and need kdegraphics maintainer to get
> added to the module.

Ok, I just need to copy this code from GOSC2010 branche to kdereview ?

I don't need to contact somebody before ?

>
> From my i18n perspective it seems worrying none of the two projects has a
> Messages.sh file (not sure if both needed it but at least libkmap seems to
> have i18n calls).

It's fixed now.

>
>>
>> What do you think about ? This plan still compatible with KDE 4.6
>> release rules :
>>
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Release_Schedule
>
> Unless you had the intention to include those libraries in the feature plan,
> no, it is not compatible with the release rules.
>
> That doesn't mean that if the rest (especially kdegraphics maintainer) agrees
> we can make an exception.

OK. it can be included to kdegraphics/libs for KDE 4.7. It's enough.

Best

Gilles Caulier