Oh, we also applied to present at Linuxfest Northwest again, but they haven't announced who's accepted yet. If approved, we'd also do a hackathon around the same time. Or we might anyway.
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick <b...@danga.com> wrote: > Keepers, > > It's been awhile since we posted a Perkeep status update. (Actually, we > never have, because the last time we did a status update it was called > Camlistore :)) > > Anyway, here are some notable things recently done or in progress or on > the horizon: > > > *# Rename from Camlistore to Perkeep* (https://github.com/perkeep/ > perkeep/issues/981) > > The rename is still underway. Many things have moved, but plenty remains. > Notably, the mailing list hasn't been renamed, and most of the binary names > (camget, camput, camlistored, etc) haven't been renamed. > > But the website is nice & pretty now! See https://perkeep.org/ And we > have a mascot... https://perkeep.org/keepy Thanks, Ashley! > > > *# Funding* (https://opencollective.com/perkeep) > > We now have 12 backers and 1 organization funding Perkeep at. Thank you > all! We'll try to provide regular updates (& progress!) for you. > > We're also doing some brainstorming on how we might get more small > contributors from users and/or some larger/corporate contributors. We'll > see. Nothing concrete to share yet. > > The goal is still to hire a second full-time developer, in addition to > Mathieu. > > > *# Migration away from SHA-1* (https://github.com/perkeep/ > perkeep/issues/537) > > Perkeep was always designed to change hash functions over time, which is > why all blobrefs contain the hash name ("sha1-xxxxx"), but since we never > actually supported anything besides SHA-1, some sha1-only assumptions had > snuck into the code. Now that SHA-1 is broken, we need to move away from > it. We're initially supporting SHA-224 as the new default. All new blobs > will be SHA-224, and all old SHA-1 blobs will still work. We're finishing > up a few corner cases now. This is a requirement before the next release. > After this, adding new hash functions will be trivial, should the need > inevitably arise. > > > *# Vendor directory cleanup* > > Paul Lindner went on a mission to clean up our vendor/* directory, > updating packages, removing unused packages, and making it all compatible > and manageable cleanly with the dep tool. It's all nice and clean now. > Thanks, Paul! > > > *# Code cleanup* > > As part of the rename, we've taken the package renaming time as a good > point to move some boring internal packages into perkeep.org/internal/*. > Also, Paul fixed a bunch of "golint" stylistic things as well. > > > *# Docs* > > We've started to flesh out the docs on the website more. After Will > Markdown-ifying the website, we're aiming for readable docs on the web, in > the code, on GitHub, and in Gerrit's git browser. The links are tricky, but > we're getting there. > > > *# Old code reviews* > > We did a pass over all the ancient open code reviews and either closed > them, merged them, or finished them up for the original author if they were > 90% of the way there already. As a result, we got some good stuff merged, > including encryption changes from Filippo Valsorda, and rollsum CPU > optimizations from Josh Bleecher Snyder. > > > *# Client package simplification* > > The perkeep.org/pkg/client package constructors have been simplified. It > had grown way too complicated. This is in prep for applications and > importers and third-party programs to use Perkeep more easily. > > > *# Google Photos Importer* (https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/issues/969, > https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/issues/896) > > The Google Photos importer is in a sad state and needs love. It's a > current priority. The "picasa" API importer can only see the most recent > 10,000 photos or so. That's a holdover limit from the old Picasa Web Albums > days, but now that Google Photos has a different data model (bunch of > photos without galleries), that means the Picasa API isn't a viable way to > get your photos out of Google. Unfortunately the only other API is via > users manually enabling the Google Drive mirror, and then using the Google > Drive API. We have that mostly working, but it needs polish. That's what we > want to get done before the next release. Brad has some photos stuck in > Google and wants them out. > > > *# iOS 11 HEIC images* (https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/issues/969) > > As of iOS 11, iPhones and such save images as HEIC instead of JPEG, and we > download them from Google Photos as HEIC. But then we can't render the > thumbnails. We need to fix that, and have started. > > > *# Web UI* > > The web UI has a Map mode now, to see all your photos & check-ins & tweets > on a zoomable/pannable world map. > > There's also a “select all” button and support for downloading directories > as zip files. > > > *# Out-of-the-box importers* (https://github.com/perkeep/ > perkeep/issues/1005) > > Currently, new Perkeep users who want to use the importers (for Twitter, > Foursquare Swarm, Google Photos, etc) need to set up their own OAuth2 app > on each site's developer console, and then copy/paste around OAuth2 > ClientID/Secrets. It's kinda a pain. We want to retain that freedom for > users as an option, but want to also offer an option to use shared apps > that we run on perkeep.net or something. It'd involve user instances > registering with perkeep.net (authenticated by their GPG identity > transparently) and setting up reverse proxies to their localhost. It'd all > work without user action or config, if selected when adding an importer > account. This is a current focus, for new users to experience importers > more easily. We believe that importers highlight Perkeep's somewhat unique > ability to handle things that aren't just files. (like tweets and > check-ins). > > > *# More importers* > > We need more importers. But first we want to fix the Google Photos > importer and make the existing importers easier to use, and then we'll go > crazy adding more. > > > *# What else?* > > Surely I'm missing things. Apologies if I missed other notable changes. > Feel free to reply and update others on things you're excited about > (whether you've done them yourself, or others have). > > > *- Brad & Mathieu* > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to camlistore+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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