Posted by KnightBaron on March 12, 2008 at 7:59pm
Shimmie is a danbooru-styled PHP image repository/gallery. (example) It's widely-used in anime communities. At the moment, I run Shimmie along with my Drupal site and notice that it would be good to integrate them together. We may need to modify some of Shimmie code and ship a modified version with the module.
Goal (Rough draft):
Major (Must be done)
- Integrate Shimmie users and sessions with Drupal.
- Create a new node type for images in Shimmie and integrate them together.
Minor (Additional features that aren't much necessary but will improve user experience)
- Implement a new interface for administrating Shimmie via Drupal admin section.
By the way, sorry about my bad English.
Comments
Hmm...
Not sure. Because our number of Summer of Code slots are limited, we try to gear them toward projects that are important to the Drupal project itself, and would have a large impact on the community. I don't really see anything in the shimmie testbed that couldn't be done in Drupal already, and it just feels like "yet another CMS" to me. I tried comparing drupal with shimmie in Google Trends as an attempt to gauge popularity of the platform, and shimmie doesn't even register as a keyword people have searched on. :(
I'm going to have to -1 this, I think...
Have to agree
There are already many, many image gallery options for drupal. And historically drupal has not been fond on bridge integration with other php apps. There are modules which do it, but in general you can replicate the functionality of a lot of different php apps with drupal-specific stuff anyway and save upgrade and maintenance headaches.
I Agree...
I'd have to agree with the -1... Projects where we bolt-on other systems are rarely very beneficial in my experience... Now if it has a cool API and we can share data... but that's another topic...
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Concur
Regrettably, I feel the same. When we slot 'external integration' projects for SoC projects, we tend to favor open APIs and services, like Google Data or more flexible RSS/ATOM feed ingestion. Integrating with third-party message board systems and galleries tends to be less broadly useful once the 'big boys' like PHPBB, Gallery, and so on are out of the way.
Ok, based on consensus...
I've marked this one rejected. But see if you can put your thoughts and ideas around integrating with other systems around something that could be generally useful, not only to Shimmie but also to other systems. :)