Etiquette

I am currently running a demonstration copy of Etiquette at http://etiquette.voussoir.net where you can browse around. This is not yet permanent.

What am I looking at

Etiquette is a tag-based file organization system with a web front-end.

Documentation is still a work in progress. In general, I use:

• python etiquette_flask_launch.py [port] to launch the flask server. Port defaults to 5000 if not provided.
• python -i etiquette_repl.py to launch the Python interpreter with the PhotoDB pre-loaded into a variable called P. Try things like P.new_photo or P.digest_directory.

Project stability

You may notice that Etiquette doesn't have a version number anywhere. That's because I don't think it's ready for one. I am using this project to learn and practice, and breaking changes are very common.

Contributing

If you are interested in helping, please raise an issue before making any pull requests!

To do list

• Make the wording between "new", "create", "add"; and "remove", "delete" more consistent.
• User account system, permission levels, private pages.
• Improve the "tags on this page" list. Maybe add separate buttons for must/may/forbid on each.
• Some way for the database to re-identify a file that was moved / renamed (lost & found). Maybe file hash of the first few mb is good enough.
• Debate whether the UserMixin.login method should accept usernames or I should standardize the usage of IDs only internally.
• Ability to access user photos by user's ID, not just username.
• Should album size be cached on disk?
• Replace columns like area, ratio, bitrate by using expression indices or views (width * height etc).
• Add some way to support large image albums without flooding the search results. Considering a "hidden" property so that a handful of representative images can appear in the search results, and the rest can be found on the actual Album page.
• Add a Photo.merge to combine duplicate entries.
• Generate thumbnails for vector files without falling victim to bombs.
• Allow photos to have nonstandard, orderby-able properties like "release year". How?
• Make the FFmpeg path configurable. Some kind of global config? Or part of the database config file? It's not like every photodb needs a separate one.
• Improve the appearance of album page. Too many section headers and the "Create album" interface should allow giving a title immediately.
• When users have '%' or '#', etc. in their username, it is difficult to access their /user/ URL. I would prefer to fix it without simply blacklisting those characters.

To do list: User permissions

Here are some thoughts about the kinds of features that need to exist within the permission system. I don't know how I'll actually manage it just yet. Possibly a permissions table in the database with user_id | permission where permission is some reliably-formatted string.

• Preventing logged out users from viewing any page except root and /login.
• Uploading photos (can_upload)
  • File extension restrictions
• Add / remove tags from photo
  • My own photos (can_tag_own)
  • Explicit individual allow / deny (can_tag_photo:<photo_id>)
  • General allow / deny (can_tag)
• Deleting photos
  • etc
• Creating albums
  • As children of my own albums
• Add / remove photos from album, edit title / desc.
  • My own albums (can_edit_album_own)
  • Explicit (can_edit_album:<album_id>)
  • General (can_edit_album)
• Deleting albums
  • etc
• Creating tags (can_create_tag)
• Deleting tags (can_delete_tag)
  • Only those that I have created (can_delete_tag_own)
  • Any time vs. only if they are not in use (can_delete_tag_in_use)

Changelog

• [addition] A new feature was added.
• [bugfix] Incorrect behavior was fixed.
• [change] An existing feature was slightly modified or parameters were renamed.
• [cleanup] Code was improved, comments were added, or other changes with minor impact on the interface.
• [removal] An old feature was removed.