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  : 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>
• 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

Auto Noise Reduction

• Student  : Aniket Handa <atneik at gmail dot com>
• 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>
• Lead Mentor  : Gilles Caulier
• Alternative Mentor : Angelo Naselli
• Working on  : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
• Wiki page

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>
• 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 <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

To create git branches, please look on this tutorial from KDE TechBase. There is another one to know git branches management.

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

Libkipi 2.0.0

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

Libkface 3.0.0

• Assigned to : Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun
• Git name "development/3.0.0"

Libkexiv2 3.0.0

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

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 : Libkexiv2 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
• 13 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.

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.