For a long time now we have been planning to extend the amount of information we store in the database for the next version, 0.10, which will run on KDE4. As the database is the central storage and digikam is built around it, such a move involves deep structural changes. We have done preparations, discussed on the mailing list what we want and what we need, made up documentation, and then sat down to code.
So during the last weeks I have been working on implementing the new database schema, and tonight I have merged my commits.As this is the first time that our ideas have found their way into real code that you can build and use from SVN (although you should not use digikam trunk SVN for production currently) it is time to give some insight.
I will give a short overview on digikam's history, what we have reached now and what we intend to do with all the information that we find now at hand.