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Etiquette
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I am currently running a demonstration copy of Etiquette at http://etiquette.voussoir.net where you can browse around. This is not yet permanent.
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### What am I looking at
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Etiquette is a tag-based file organization system with a web front-end.
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Documentation is still a work in progress. In general,
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- You must make the `etiquette` package importable by placing it in one of your lib paths. I use filesystem junctions for this purpose.
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- Run `python etiquette_flask_launch.py [port]` to launch the flask server. Port defaults to 5000 if not provided.
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- Run `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`.
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### Project stability
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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.
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### Project Structure
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- `etiquette`
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The core backend package.
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- `frontends`
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Ideally the backend should be frontend-agnostic. Even though the Flask interface is my primary interest, it should not feel like it must be the only one. Therefore I place it in this folder to indicate that other frontends are possible too.
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- `etiquette_flask`
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This folder represents the flask server as somewhat of a black box, in the sense that you can move it around and just run the contained launch file.
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- `etiquette_flask`
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This is the package that contains all of the site's actual API code.
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- `utilities`
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For other scripts that will be used with etiquette databases, but are not part of the library itself.
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### Contributing
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If you are interested in helping, please raise an issue before making any pull requests!
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### To do list
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- Make the wording between "new", "create", "add"; and "remove", "delete" more consistent.
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- User account system, permission levels, private pages.
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- Improve the "tags on this page" list. Maybe add separate buttons for must/may/forbid on each.
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- 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.
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- Debate whether the `UserMixin.login` method should accept usernames or I should standardize the usage of IDs only internally.
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- Ability to access user photos by user's ID, not just username.
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- Should album size be cached on disk?
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- Replace columns like area, ratio, bitrate by using expression indices or views (`width * height` etc).
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- 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.
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- Add a `Photo.merge` to combine duplicate entries.
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- Generate thumbnails for vector files without falling victim to bombs.
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- Allow photos to have nonstandard, orderby-able properties like "release year". How?
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- 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.
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- Improve the appearance of album page. Too many section headers and the "Create album" interface should allow giving a title immediately.
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- 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.
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### To do list: User permissions
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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.
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- Preventing logged out users from viewing any page except root and /login.
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- Uploading photos (`can_upload`)
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- File extension restrictions
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- Add / remove tags from photo
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- My own photos (`can_tag_own`)
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- Explicit individual allow / deny (`can_tag_photo:<photo_id>`)
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- General allow / deny (`can_tag`)
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- Deleting photos
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- etc
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- Creating albums
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- As children of my own albums
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- Add / remove photos from album, edit title / desc.
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- My own albums (`can_edit_album_own`)
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- Explicit (`can_edit_album:<album_id>`)
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- General (`can_edit_album`)
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- Deleting albums
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- etc
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- Creating tags (`can_create_tag`)
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- Deleting tags (`can_delete_tag`)
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- Only those that I have created (`can_delete_tag_own`)
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- Any time vs. only if they are not in use (`can_delete_tag_in_use`)
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### Changelog
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- **[addition]** A new feature was added.
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- **[bugfix]** Incorrect behavior was fixed.
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- **[change]** An existing feature was slightly modified or parameters were renamed.
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- **[cleanup]** Code was improved, comments were added, or other changes with minor impact on the interface.
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- **[removal]** An old feature was removed.
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