The developers of digiKam and the Kipi project came together in Essen, Germany on November 13-15 for the second coding sprint for KDE photography applications. With digiKam preparing for the 1.0 release shortly before Christmas, plans were discussed and work began already in feature branches for the following release. A lot of work was put into polishing Windows support, with collaborative testing and bug fixing. The developers of Kamoso took the opportunity to bring Kipi support to their application. A lot of discussion was centered around a future architecture for Kipi plugins for syncing with web services and how Akonadi could help in this context.
digiKam developer Gilles Caulier hacked with Kåre Särs on the Acquire Images Kipi plugin and found some problems with the libksane Twain implementation. Working on cross-platform support, he reported a lot of problems with digiKam on Windows to Patrick Spendrin, who immediately went to fix them, shared his experience to compile digiKam under MinGW and MSVC, and tested compilation under Mac OS X on Kåre's borrowed MacBook. Some problems in the liblqr library are waiting to be fixed.
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