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.

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.
• Allow photos to have nonstandard, orderby-able properties like "release year".
• Make the FFmpeg path configurable. Some kind of global config? Or part of the database config file?

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.