The only thing holding SVN conversion currently is the fact that we can't track reliably server side moves.

Me and many others aired the opinion, that we lived so far without tracked server side moves and won't miss it in the future - on the other hand it delays the move to subversion where we can move easily.

So my question is: is there demand from kde-core-devel to wait more for Ossi to finish that feature or do you prefer to skip that and go to subversion right away.

No, I'm talking about the cvs server here. Moves (or better copies) we've done in the past on the cvs server to work around the inabilty of cvs to track moves in the client. Oswald wants the cvs2svn conversion to detect these and create svn moves for the past.

it means that you will be able to checkout, for example, kdebase/kdm from 2001-10-01 and will get a clean copy. try this today. generally speaking, this "send a copy request to the cvs admins"-type of moving files makes a royal mess of any checkout with a past timestamp. not exactly helpful for those who really want to do some research.

OK, after watching your progress so far I'm deciding this: you have till saturday 10pm CEST. At that time I want a version in CVS that is able to create a working subversion tree. I don't care how much hacks you have to put in there and how many files you have to black list. If your version is able to replay only 50% of the moves: I don't care.

Every day we do not move, more people will commit into SVN thinking it's already done and more people will get angry because they still can't move their files around and more people will get be holded away from importing their apps into CVS. Saturday is my last word - you're free to hate me, but your original question was if I'm fine with a one week delay if you start working on it and wouldn't be able to finish in time. Saturday is 16 days behind the original march 31st and you're one day too much "almost done".

The digiKam team is pleased to announce the new 0.7.3-beta1 release.

About digiKam

digiKam is a digital photograph management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections. Additionally images can be tagged and these tagged images can be viewed in virtual albums.

An easy to use interface is provided that enables you to connect to your camera and preview, download and/or delete your images.

digiKam includes a fast Image Editor with a few advanced image editing tools. You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs and to make corrections and alterations. A stand alone version of image editor named ShowFoto is also available.

Note to packagers : showfoto program is independant of digiKam core. digiKam is only require during showfoto compilation, but shofoto program have none depency with digiKam.

What's new in 0.7.3-beta1

• Showfoto: add image properties dialog like in digiKam, add RMB menu, Move to trash/Delete File option, add setup dialog, add new option to toogle thumbbar in fullscreen mode, DigikamImagePlugins support, load/unload plugins dynamicly in according with setup, add statusbar, add splashscreen support, add resize image option, add Print capability, add Key shortcuts and toolbar configuration settings, add Edit/copy action, Undo/Redo actions, add showfoto icon, GUI improvements. + Image filters levels and curves adjustments : add option to see over-exposed pixels in preview effect (like with Acdsee(tm) tools).
• Image histogram: color guide tool.
• Image filters levels and curves adjustments: mouse tracking picker color like in Gimp and Photoshop(tm).
• Patch from Alfons Hoogervorst about histogram visible while viewing photo in digiKam image editor and showfoto using blending.
• digiKam Splashscreen from Andreas Fischer.
• showfoto Splashscreen from Joern Ahrens.
• Added a history based undo/redo function. The undo/redo icons in the toolbar are popup-menus, which describes the actions on the image.
• Add a new button to the album properties which calculates the average date of the images in the album based on the EXIF headers or the modification date of the images if the exif headers are not available. It sets the date property of the album to the average date.
• New digiKam image editor plugin for black and white conversion:
  • Since digikam include colors channel mixer, using this one for BW conversion. Give best results than old implementation. BW conversion are based on gimpguru.org tutorial (http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/Color2BW).
  • This plugin have a dialog with preview effect.
  • B&W filters available are: Neutral B&W, B&W with Green filter(NEW), B&W with Orange filter(NEW), B&W with Red filter(NEW), B&W with Yellow filter(NEW), Sepia, Brown, Cold, Selenium, Platinum.

Download

You can download digiKam-0.7.3-beta1 tarball at this url:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/digikam/digikam-0.7.3-beta1.tar.bz2?download

More...

• digiKam provide full documentation. You can consult current manual at this url:
  http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeextragear-3/digikam
• GUI are frozen and ready for translations. 0.7.3 final release is planned to feb. 28. DOC will be frozen in a near future.
• Recent screenshots can be seen at this url:
  http://extragear.kde.org/apps/digikam/

If you want more informations about digiKam project, please consult the official web project page available at this url: http://digikam.sf.net