Re: Being honest about the development of f-spot

[Roland Geider <masterOfTheWeb geider net>]

On Monday 12 September 2011 10:26:57 Sven Utcke wrote:
> Hello Turgut,
>
> > >I've come to the upsetting conclusion that f-spot ought to be declared
> > >dormant until a new maintainer comes along to lead the project. In
> >
> > It is really sad and worrisome for me. I have not seen any other
> > application that can replace f-spot for me. Neither shotwell or
> > digikam do certain things that f-spot does. Plus, the potential
> > hurdles of the migration process give me headaches.
>
> Ok, I can not (and would not want to) help with f-spot development,
> but I could probably help with the migration from f-spot to some other
> program with well defined database format (which, by the way, f-spot
> certainly has not --- and as the author of f_spot_cleanup,
> http://www.svenutcke.de/sw/f-spot/cleanup/ , I know what I am talking
> about :-).
>
> If you think that would be useful, let me know where to you would like
> to migrate, and if there are enough people proclaiming interest, I'll
> hack something together to export your f-spot database to that target.
>
> Sven

Hello Sven and list,

Before somebody starts spending time writing such a tool from scracth, I wrote 
a python script to migrate from f-spot to digikam. I have used it with my 
collection of around 10000 pictures and works pretty well. At least for me, 
since I could not test this with any other installations! It can migrate tags 
and ratings (the most important settings for me) and the comments as well.

https://bitbucket.org/rolandgeider/f-spot-to-digikam


Roland