Digikam/GSoC2012

digiKam Google Summer of Code 2012 Projects list

Video Slide Show Generator

• Student  : Janardhan Reddy <annapareddyjanardhanreddy at gmail dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Angelo Naselli
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• [??? Wiki page]

Camera User Interface Revamp

• Student  : Islam Wazery <wazery at ubuntu dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
• Working on  : digiKam 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• Wiki page

Face Recognition

• Student  : Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun <mamun dot nightcrawler at gmail.com>
• Lead Mentor  : Marcel Wiesweg
• Alternative Mentor : Alex Jironkin
• Working on  : digiKam 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• Wiki page

Improve integration of Photivo

• Student  : Dominic Lyons <domlyons at googlemail dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Benjamin Girault
• Alternative Mentor : Bernd Schöler
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• [??? Wiki page]

UPnP / DLNA plugin

• Student  : Smit Mehta <smit dot tmeh at gmail dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Marcel Wiesweg
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• [??? Wiki page]

Video Metadata Support

• Student  : Abhinav Badola <mail dot abu dot to at gmail dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Andreas Huggel
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : A dedicated Svn branch for Exiv2, and libkexiv2 3.0.0 and digiKam 3.0.0 git branches.
• Proposal page
• [??? Wiki page]

Porting Libkipi and KIPI-Plugins to KDE XML-GUI

• Student  : Victor Dodon <dodonvictor at gmail dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Benjamin Girault
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : Libkipi-2.0.0 Git branch, and Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• Wiki page

digiKam Summer of KDE 2012 Projects list

Wallpaper plugin

• Student  : Varun Herale <varun dot herale at gmail dot com>
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Angelo Naselli
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Bugzilla entry
• Wiki page

Extra projects relevant of digiKam Software Compilation 3.0.0

Factoring of KIPI plugins

Resume

In order to branch Kipi-plugins to 3.0.0, and to optimize time loading of KIPI host applications at startup, some tools need to be binary factored to the same plugin.

Mentors List

• Gilles Caulier <caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com>
• Marcel Wiesweg <marcel dot wiesweg at gmx dot de>
• Andreas Huggel <ahuggel at gmx dot net>
• Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux dot it>
• Benjamin Girault <benjamin dot girault at gmail dot com>
• Alex Jironkin <alexjironkin at gmail dot com>
• Bernd Schöler <[email protected]>

Repositories Branching and Releases Plan

Branches Creation

To create git branches, please look on this tutorial from KDE TechBase.

digiKam 3.0.0

• Assigned to : Islam Wazery
• Git name : "development/3.0.0"

Kipi-plugins 3.0.0

• Assigned to : Smit Mehta
• Git name "development/3.0.0"

Libkexiv2 3.0.0

• Assigned to : Abhinav Badola
• Git name "development/3.0.0"

Libkipi 2.0.0

• Assigned to : Victor Dodon
• Git name "development/2.0.0"

Dates

• 06 May 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.6.0-RC released from KDE git/master.
• 07 May 2012 : digiKam 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 07 May 2012 : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 07 May 2012 : Libkexiv2 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 07 May 2012 : Libkipi 2.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 02 Sep 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta1 including all GoSC-2012 works.
• 07 Oct 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta2 including all GoSC-2012 works.
• 04 Nov 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta3 including all GoSC-2012 works.
• 02 Dec 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 RC including all GoSC-2012 works.
• 23 Dec 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 Final including all GoSC-2012 works.