Digikam/GSoC2012

digiKam Google Summer of Code 2012 Projects list

Video Slide Show Generator

• Student  : Janardhan Reddy <annapareddyjanardhanreddy at gmail dot com>
• Come from  : Chennai, India
• Lead Mentor  : Angelo Naselli
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• status : completed

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Camera User Interface Revamp

• Student  : Islam Wazery <wazery at ubuntu dot com>
• Come from  : Saudi Arabia, Egypt
• 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>
• Come from  : Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Lead Mentor  : Marcel Wiesweg
• Alternative Mentor : Alex Jironkin
• Working on  : libkface 3.0.0 and digiKam 3.0.0 Git branches
• Proposal page
• Wiki page

Improve integration of Photivo

• Student  : Dominic Lyons <domlyons at googlemail dot com>
• Come from  : Deizisau, Germany
• Lead Mentor  : Benjamin Girault
• Alternative Mentor : Bernd Schöler
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Proposal page
• Wiki page: Photivo Integration

UPnP / DLNA plugin

• Student  : Smit Mehta <smit dot tmeh at gmail dot com>
• Come from  : Chennai, India
• 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>
• Come from  : Chandigarh, India
• Lead Mentor  : Andreas Huggel
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : A dedicated Svn branch for Exiv2, and digiKam 3.0.0 git branches.
• Proposal page
• KDE bugzilla entries :164442
• [??? Wiki page]

Porting Libkipi and KIPI-Plugins to KDE XML-GUI

• Student  : Victor Dodon <dodonvictor at gmail dot com>
• Come from  : Bucuresti, Romania
• Lead Mentor  : Benjamin Girault
• Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
• Working on  : Libkipi-2.0.0 Git branch, digiKam 3.0.0 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>
• Come from  : Chennai, India
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Angelo Naselli
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Bugzilla entry
• Wiki page

Auto Noise Reduction

• Student  : Aniket Handa <atneik at gmail dot com>
• Come from  : New Delhi, India
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
• Working on  : digiKam 3.0.0 Git branch
• Bugzilla entry
• Wiki page

Extending Presentation View using Kipi plugins

• Student  : Dhruv Patel <dhruvkumarr dot patel51 at gmail dot com>
• Come from  : Gandhinagar, India
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Angelo Naselli
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Wiki page

Parallelization of code into Batch Queue manager

• Student  : Pankaj Kumar <me at panks dot me>
• Come from  : India
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
• Working on  : digiKam 3.0.0 Git branch
• Summary  : Right now the processing of items in BQM take place in serial fashion, the goal of this project is to allow processing of items from queue in parallel, using multicore CPU.
• Bugzilla entry

Extra projects relevant of digiKam Software Compilation 3.0.0

Kipi-plugins Factoring

Summary

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.

Import/Export tools To Web Services to factorize

• Facebook
• FlickrExport
• GalleryExport
• PicasaWebExport
• Smug
• Shwup
• PiwigoExport
• DebianScreenshots
• YandexFotki
• MediaWiki
• RajceExport
• Vkontakte
• ImageShackExport
• ImgurExport

Mentors List and Coordination

• Gilles Caulier <caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com> from France
• Marcel Wiesweg <marcel dot wiesweg at gmx dot de> from Germany
• Andreas Huggel <ahuggel at gmx dot net> from Malaysia
• Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux dot it> from Italia
• Benjamin Girault <benjamin dot girault at gmail dot com> from France
• Alex Jironkin <alexjironkin at gmail dot com> from UK
• Bernd Schöler <brother dot john at photivo dot org>

Students and mentors will use digikam-soc-devel at kde dot org mailing-list to coordinate projects.

Repositories Branching and Dates

Branches Creation and Maintenance

• To create remote working branches in KDE git repository, please look on this tutorial from KDE TechBase.

• During GoSC2012 coding time, git/master will still the stable implementation receiving important fixes. A development branch must be sync with git/master periodically. To do it, see below as example how to sync digiKam "3.0.0" branch tracking "remotes/origin/development/3.0.0" from KDE git repository:

$>git checkout master
$>git pull --rebase
$>git checkout -b 3.0.0 remotes/origin/development/3.0.0
  Branch 3.0.0 set up to track remote branch development/3.0.0 from origin.
  Switched to a new branch '3.0.0'
$>git merge master
  Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
  ...
$>git push

The 2 first lines take a sure that your local master repository is up to date. The 3rd line create in local the "3.0.0" development branch. Merge between master and 3.0.0 branch is done with 4th line. Git can ask you to resolve conflicts here. When it's done, it will ask you a commit comment. Finally push your merge into remote KDE repository.

Note: If you have already created 3.0.0 branch, just run "git checkout 3.0.0" as well instead git checkout -b 3.0.0 remotes/origin/development/3.0.0. This give this concatened command line:

$>git checkout master; git pull --rebase; git checkout 3.0.0; git pull; git merge master
  ...
$>git push

digiKam 3.0.0

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

Kipi-plugins 3.0.0

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

Libkface 3.0.0

• Assigned to : Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun
• Git name "libkface-3.0.0"
• Git Web interface

Libkipi 2.0.0

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

Exiv2

• Assigned to : Abhinav Badola
• Svn name "gsoc2012"
• Exiv2 subversion Web interface

Roadmap and Releases Plan

• 09 May 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.6.0-RC released from KDE git/master.
• 13 May 2012 : digiKam 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 13 May 2012 : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 13 May 2012 : Libkface 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 13 May 2012 : Libkipi 2.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 13 May 2012 : Exiv2 GSoC2012 branch created from SVN.
• 04 Jun 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.6.0-final released from KDE git/master.
• 08 Jul 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.7.0 released from KDE git/master.
• 05 Aug 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.8.0 released from KDE git/master.
• 20 Aug 2012 : Exiv2 GSoC2012 branch merged to SVN trunk.
• 02 Sep 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.9.0 released from KDE git/master.
• 05 sep 2012 : All GoSC 2012 development branches are merged back to git/master.
• 16 Sep 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta1 including all GoSC-2012 works.
• 08 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.

Coding Sprint

As a lots of students come from India this year, it will be nice to plan a reunion between developers in this country to reduce travel and hotel costs.

• Colin Guthrie suggesting to apply for FOSS.IN/2012 event.

• Pradeepto Bhattacharya propose through G+ to organize the events somewhere in India.