Ranking/Ratings for photos

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Hi again all,

I've been spending much more time hacking on f-spot than I have fiddling 
with pictures lately, so I haven't done as much usability testing as I'd 
intended to...   However, one thing I already know I'm going to miss a 
lot from iPhoto is the concept of ranking photos.

The way I dealt with my photos in iPhoto was to categorize them using 
folders and keywords (f-spot can do that reasonably well), and then 
assign a ranking between 1 and 5 --- although I never really used 2 
much.  The way I used the rankings was:
   1 - archive -- When I'd built up about 4gb of photos with this 
ranking, I'd burn 'em to a dvd and delete them all from my HD.
   3 - acceptable:  good enough to keep around on my HD, or possibily 
usable in digital compositions, but not worth showing to people
   4 - good : worth showing to people
   5 - great : worth including in my backgrounds, etc.

iPhoto then provides a fairly quick way to build virtual folders, by 
combining keywords, folders and ratings - i.e. "show me all photos from 
my trip to Vegas with a rating of 4 or greater."

I don't see anything like this in the TODO list-- has anyone started 
looking at this kind of functionality?   From a quick scan of the code, 
it seems like one plausible solution is to make a ranking a special type 
of tag and provide some special case code to control setting and 
searching for it...

Do you guys have any kind of process for this kind of thing?
Should I just post a more detailed description of what I want to do 
here, and maybe open a bug to track it?   Or are their other things I 
should do?

Thanks,

Warren