How does one use digikam source for casual testing?

[Paul Waldo]

Hi all,

I have finally gotten digikam to compile from source, but I am hesitating before running it.  I would like to check out the bleeding edge features, but I certainly don't want an obscure bug walking through my image tree deleting every image in sight. :-O  I also want to maintain a stable version for day-to-day use.

So, for those who have their feet in both the stable and beta worlds, how do you do it without worrying about bugs permanently removing your priceless photos?  Thanks for any tips!

Paul

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Paul Waldo wrote:

> So, for those who have their feet in both the stable and beta worlds,
> how do you do it without worrying about bugs permanently removing your
> priceless photos? Thanks for any tips!

always work on copies...

jdd

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[Lawrence Plug]

Hi Paul,

I'm using the latest beta of 0.9.4 and find it very stable. It
hasn't done anything nasty :-). I kept 0.9.3 which comes in my
linux distribution's repositories, but never use it now
that I have 0.9.4. Your mileage may vary of course.

I wouldn't do it without backups (but of course we should have
those anyway, beta program or not).  I have about 400GB
of photos managed by digikam, and mainly use unison (very handy
backup utility) to maintain a local mirror of my image tree on a
USB hard drive, and also a mirror on my server at work. In
addition, DVD backups sporadically.

cheers
L



On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:26:53AM -0400, Paul Waldo wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have finally gotten digikam to compile from source, but I am hesitating
> before running it.  I would like to check out the bleeding edge features, but I
> certainly don't want an obscure bug walking through my image tree deleting
> every image in sight. :-O  I also want to maintain a stable version for
> day-to-day use.
>
> So, for those who have their feet in both the stable and beta worlds, how do
> you do it without worrying about bugs permanently removing your priceless
> photos?  Thanks for any tips!
>
> Paul

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[Arnd Baecker]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Lawrence Plug wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm using the latest beta of 0.9.4 and find it very stable. It
> hasn't done anything nasty :-). I kept 0.9.3 which comes in my
> linux distribution's repositories, but never use it now
> that I have 0.9.4. Your mileage may vary of course.
>
> I wouldn't do it without backups (but of course we should have
> those anyway, beta program or not).  I have about 400GB
> of photos managed by digikam, and mainly use unison (very handy
> backup utility) to maintain a local mirror of my image tree on a
> USB hard drive, and also a mirror on my server at work. In
> addition, DVD backups sporadically.

Usually the svn version has less bugs than the previously
released version (but of course, this cannot be guarenteed ... ;-)

Independent of this, I can higly recommend the text
 http://www.gerhard.fr/DAM/ by Gerhard on Digital Assessment
management. In particular,
http://www.gerhard.fr/DAM/part2.html#Protect
may be an eye-opener to even more frequent back-ups
and data-integrity checking ... ;-)

Best, Arnd

> cheers
> L
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:26:53AM -0400, Paul Waldo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have finally gotten digikam to compile from source, but I am hesitating
> > before running it.  I would like to check out the bleeding edge features, but I
> > certainly don't want an obscure bug walking through my image tree deleting
> > every image in sight. :-O  I also want to maintain a stable version for
> > day-to-day use.
> >
> > So, for those who have their feet in both the stable and beta worlds, how do
> > you do it without worrying about bugs permanently removing your priceless
> > photos?  Thanks for any tips!
> >
> > Paul
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Digikam-users mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>
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Dnia Thursday 08 of May 2008, Paul Waldo napisał:

> Hi all,
>
> I have finally gotten digikam to compile from source, but I am
> hesitating before running it. I would like to check out the bleeding
> edge features, but I certainly don't want an obscure bug walking through
> my image tree deleting every image in sight. :-O I also want to maintain
> a stable version for day-to-day use.
>
> So, for those who have their feet in both the stable and beta worlds,
> how do you do it without worrying about bugs permanently removing your
> priceless photos? Thanks for any tips!

From my experience svn 3.5 branch is very stable (0.9.x). Personally had
not any problems with photos themselves, just minor glitches with
database (encoding related).

m.

ps. Backup is always good thing.

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