[Clipart] 0.19 Release Candidate

[Daniel Isenmann]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:36:40 +0100
Jochen Staerk <jstaerk at usegroup.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 1) New File Release: where to get the release candidate (read below)
> 2) Feedback (read below)
> 3) Changes: 0.18 features removed
> 4) Changes: 0.19 features added
> 
> 
> 1) New File Release: where to get the release candidate
> 
> 
> On http://www.usegroup.de/kunden/openclipart/openclipart0.19.tar.gz
> (355MB),
> http://www.usegroup.de/kunden/openclipart/openclipart0.19.tar.bz2
> (302MB) and
> http://www.usegroup.de/kunden/openclipart/openclipart0.19.zip (360MB)
> respectively you will find a release candidate of the openclipart 0.19
> file release.
> 
> It has been created with my openclipart release script
> http://www.usegroup.de/kunden/openclipart/downloader.zip (<<1MB)
> 
> See section 3b) for a link to the new gallery.
> 
> 
> 2) Feedback
> 
> Please note that the feature freeze is over, so feel free to report
> bugs or submit patches. Michael and me will tweak th CSS a bit.
> Any new feature discussion will be postponed to the next release.
> 
> 
> 3) Changes: 0.18 features removed
> 
> a) Metadata
> After 0.18, open clipart plattform migrated to the new system, ccHost.
> 
> I have so far not found an easy and performant way to extract
> metadata (e.g. tags) except for artist and title of the SVGs.
> 
> Thus, the 0.19 file release will not contain metadata except for
> artist and title.
> 
> b) Windows installer version
> 
> 0.18 had a .exe version which you could download and install in the
> proprietary windows operating system. Good idea and nicely done but
> there was hardly any advantage except the ability to uninstall via
> the software management. Thus, and because of some minor technical
> issues, 0.19 will not have a particular windows version.
> 
> 3) Changes: 0.19 features added
> 
> a) 0.19 will come with >11000 svg (+thumbs ~300MB) compared to ~6900
> (+thumbs ~112MB) from the 0.18 release in 2005.
> 
> b) Michael Krnac suggested a static HTML gallery before the feature
> freeze. Although this took me around a week of work it was definitely
> worth the effort (and thanks to Michael for the template):
>    Online preview of this >230 pages gallery included in the offline
> release:
>    http://www.usegroup.de/kunden/openclipart/gallery/
> 
> 
> Special thanks to Jon, Michael and Nicu('s daily tarball script),
> kind regards,
> Jochen
> 

Hi,

I know from the old release (0.18) there are categories for the
cliparts. After downloading the new release, there are no categories,
just the author name of the image. Is this the point of missing metadata
you mentioned above? 
Would be really great to see category again, because it's much easier
to package and to use those cliparts in several category instead in one
large directory.

Regards,
 Daniel