I am looking at making a few modifications / enhancements to the latest photo-album package and wondering who is the maintainer of it. The modifications I am considering are:

• User-configurable display (and possible editing) of EXIF data stored during photo upload
• The setting of photo icons for folders in addition to albums
• User-configurable ordering of photos within an album (manually, by date, by name)
• Searching of photos (is this already possible using site-wide search?) based on name and other details like EXIF data
• The possibility of using the exiftags library instead of / as an alternative to Jhead. Exiftags seems to read more data than Jhead

Any comments / additions from anyone?

Bart, I would definitely be interested in looking at your code. I like the idea of resizing thumbnails when the parameters are changed - I hadn't thought of that one.

Hello, we are fixing many of the bugs of the photo-album (nearly 18 bugs), and we are uploading patchs, today or tomorrow tuesday, I'll upload all the changes, including i18n to the CVS ....  James, can you wait a little, so we upload this stuff, and you can continue working ...

Hey, I just fixed some bugs locally a couple of days ago, Roc - the PG version flat out didn't work at all.  Are you working on the PG version, Oracle version, or both?

Either way - could you e-mail me when you've finished committing your patches to CVS.  I'll test them out ...

Roberto,

while arch is a better CMS in the making than CVS it is no substitute for a package maintainer. The problem is not how to fork a package or how to get bits and pieces of a fork back into the canonial package. But rather the lack of a package maintainer who would use tools like arch or CVS to keep the canonial package up to date.

/Bart

There is not one in cvs on openacs.org.  Maybe you have an
old checkout?

Don, I'm surprised to hear that the PG version didn't work for you. I've had it running on the OACS5a release and on 4.6.3 (modified to take out noquote) with no problems.

There were a few minor annoyances like not recording some EXIF data and not displaying any, but they were pretty easy to fix. If no-one else has fixed those, I'll contribute them once Rocael's bugfixes included.

Is the plan to get the many great bug fixes by Rocael et al into the final 5.0 release? I'm hoping it is.

The reason I ask is because most, if not all, of them have been committed to HEAD.

After all, most of the fixes are not new features ...

/Ola

Wow! I'm impressed by how fast you act.

Thank you guys for the work you have done, it's much appreciated.

I've just installed OACS 5 and I notice that no EXIF data is being stored in the database (and obviously as a result, none is displayed).  Wasn't there a plan to update the photoalbum for the release?

I've already done this work on an earlier version so if no-one has a more current version, I'll look at updating the latest one and contributing it back.