Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Open 4.6 items & project status

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Posted by Walter McGinnis on
I'm the package owner for both the photo-album and photo-album-lite.  As some of you already know the plan is for the two packages to be consolidated (take the best features from both).

More information can be found in these other threads:

https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00058y&topic_id=OpenACS&topic=11

https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0004Wu&topic_id=12&topic=OpenACS%204%2e0%20Design

https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0004V3&topic_id=OpenACS&topic=11

As I have mentioned before, I don't want to stand in the way of progress on the photo-album.  I don't currently have the financial/time bandwidth to sustain development of the photo-album.  Unless someone would like to help fund the project, I would like to step down as package owner.  There seems to be a lot of interest in this package and how it can be generalized to handle image archiving.  I'm hoping someone will step up to the plate and coordinate bug fixes (pretty stable IIRC) for 4.6 and new development for 4.7.

One interesting suggestion was for a student to take this on as Masters project.  It should be noted that Jesse Koontz worked on the photo-database (part of what the photo-album evolved from)for his Masters from MIT...

Thanks,