[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.7 plan

[Bruno Girin]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 10:29 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
> Friends of Shotwell,
> 
> now that 0.6 is out the door we've already begun development for 
> Shotwell 0.7.  We plan to release 0.7 some time in August, in time to 
> make it comfortably into the fall releases of major distributions 
> (Fedora, Ubuntu).  This means that 0.7 will be a shorter release cycle 
> than 0.5 and 0.6 were, and so we must correspondingly be a bit less 
> ambitious.  But we would like to include the following major new 
> features in 0.7:
> 
<snip>

>      * Rating photos. The user will be able to assign any of the 
> following ratings to each photo: unrated (the default), 1-5 stars, or 
> Rejected (the lowest rating). You will be able to sort and/or filter by 
> rating. By default, Shotwell will display all photos except rejected 
> photos. In the browser view, we'll have a dropdown menu on the toolbar 
> that will allow you to select a different filter, e.g. only 3 stars and 
> higher. This will replace Shotwell's existing hidden/favorites 
> mechanism. When you upgrade from 0.6 to 0.7, all previously hidden 
> photos will become Rejected and all previously favorite photos will be 
> assigned a rating of 5 stars.  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2233]

Considering that F-Spot includes, a 1-5 star rating, a hidden flag and a
favorite tag, what should be the behaviour when an F-Spot photo is
imported that is hidden, has a rating of 3 stars and has the favorite
tag attached? Does the rating take precedence?


>      * Migration for F-Spot users. Shotwell 0.7 will be able to migrate 
> an F-Spot library to Shotwell by reading the F-Spot database directly. 
> Tags and ratings from F-Spot will be preserved. If a user has edited a 
> photo in F-Spot, the latest version of the photo (and, perhaps, the 
> original version too) will be available in Shotwell.  
> [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/139]

Events will be preserved too. Places and People will be imported as
tags.

However, note that, because Shotwell doesn't support nested tags, F-Spot
nested tags will result in several (unrelated) tags in Shotwell. That
is, unless ticket 1401 is implemented too:

>      * hierarchical tags  [http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401]

Bruno