[Shotwell] GSoC 2011

[Adam Dingle]

That's right: Yorba was unfortunately not chosen as a mentoring 
organization for this year's Google Summer of Code.  Oh well.  The good 
news is that GNOME was chosen (as expected) as a mentoring organization, 
and the GNOME people have expressed interest in having students work on 
Shotwell projects.  So this is a possible path forward.  Some of us at 
Yorba will apply to be mentors.  The deadline for student applications 
is April 8 (see 
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline) 
so I'd encourage any students interested in working on Shotwell this 
summer to apply by that time.  If anyone's new to this thread, please 
see Yorba's list of suggested summer projects at

http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas

Andreas, I think that either in-app video playback or FTP/HTML 
publishing would be good summer projects.  Migration to SQLHeavy is 
probably something that the core team should consider, though if we look 
at this soon and decide it would make a good summer project then we can 
add it to our list.  I'm not at all concerned about adopting other 
database backends since I think it's unlikely we'd want to move to 
anything other than SQLite.

Regarding a performance test suite, I think we'd want to build that as 
part of a larger automated testing effort, which we've been thinking 
about a test suite for a long time (see 
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1068).  But that will probably involve lots 
of design and code refactoring and so is probably a project for the core 
team.

Thanks for your mini-biography, and we'll look forward to your application.

adam

On 03/19/2011 07:26 AM, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> Hey Adam,
>
> Unfortunately it seems that yorba hasn't been chosen as mentoring
> organization as it's not listed.
>
> This of course means more competition for us students as we will have to
> grab GNOME spots. Not an easy task but certainly worth the challenge.
>
> Besides the projects I listed on my previous mail I found a few other
> ones that would interest me:
>
> A project around SQLHeavy ( http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3312 ). It
> should include the evaluation without disturbing the main development
> flow around shotwell.
> The downside I see with SQLHeavy is that it might hinder the adoption of
> other DB backends, if this is a concern (unless SQLHeavy itself is
> adopted to be more of a GObject/Hibernate with various backends.)
>
> A test suite for shotwell which would also generate the performance
> numbers on a fixed set of data such that the development of progress can
> be more closely/precisely tracked - the inflate image duplication tool
> could optionally be integrated into it. My main concern there is that it
> randomizes the dates of the photos which make it non-deterministic.
>
> I would also have suggested a tracker integration as it would be pretty
> GNOME related but since we can now write tags back, this comes pretty
> much for free.. I'm not sure if there is other data worth tracking that
> is not in EXIF/XMP. Maybe the event names and photo label?
>
> Anyway, I would be happy to formalize good applications proposals for
> any projects a yorba staff (yorbanito?) would be willing to mentor :)
>
> Since I would really like to apply, I'll shortly present myself in a
> more formal light:
> I'm a 26yo 6th semester undergrad CS student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
> I've got two years of full-time dev. work experience (I developed
> managed C# code with a mid-sized swiss software company). I also
> participated in a few open source projects like nGhost (c++) a car-pc
> media center, the vala compiler (vala) where I wrote a few patches and
> bindings, a few others with mainly small contributions (c/java/perl).
> For shotwell I wrote the initial champlain map-widget integration and
> I'm currently working on a naming event provider which given a date
> returns a meaningful string for a few holidays (see
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2882 ) like the author of the report says:
> nothing urgent but cool :)
>
> best
> andreas
>
> On Mit, 2011-03-16 at 22:32 +0100, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 10:38 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote:
>>> Andreas,
>>>
>>> thanks for the interest in working on Shotwell for Google Summer of
>>> Code, and apologies for the long delay in responding - as you probably
>>> know the Yorba team has been pretty busy working toward the upcoming 0.9
>>> release.
>> No worries, 0.9 is an important release!
>>
>>>    I'm happy to report that Yorba has applied to be a Summer of
>>> Code mentoring organization this year.
>> This is great news for us students - I really hope yorba gets accepted
>> as mentoring organization.
>>
>>> You can see our list of project
>>> ideas here:
>>>
>>>     http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas
>> Alternatively to working on a sharing solution (see next chunk), I would
>> be interested in:
>> - play videos directly in Shotwell rather than via external player
>> (#2820)
>> - FTP publishing, with optional generation of a static html gallery
>>
>>> I do think that the Shotwell server idea might be too big for a Summer
>>> of Code project, however.  We do want to take that on someday, but there
>>> are lots of open questions to answer about how exactly Shotwell should
>>> work in a client/server situation and I think making this all work well
>>> is probably a major project for the core team.  If you have a
>>> well-developed vision for exactly how this should work and how you would
>>> modify Shotwell to make that happen, feel free to post it here and we
>>> can discuss more.  Otherwise I'd encourage you to look at our ideas page
>>> for other projects that I think would be easier to take on this summer.
>>> Cheers -
>> I agree that the server idea is indeed a major project. My vision is
>> certainly not too elaborated yet - the planning would be a particularly
>> critical part of the project.
>>
>> Best of luck for the 0.9 release
>> andreas
>>
>>
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