I have been using F-Spot for some time, but decided to try digiKam (I am starting to feel, that albums are not that bad idea, after all, and I like autodetection of new/changed images). As it turned out, digiKam failed to import F-Spot tags (in spite of the fact I was working in Write metadata to file mode), so I had to do some scripting to copy the F-Spot tags to the digiKam database.

Below the crucial script and some extra comments.

I am somewhat unlucky. Being Python and Perl devotee, I just had to install PHP-based blog (all Python blogs seems to be pre-alpha, Perlish Movable Type is solid, but unclearly licensed and rumoured to be difficult to maintain). Now I wanted some reasonably looking issue-tracker, and it turned out that Trac is as far from multi-project handling, as it was two years ago, so I picked Redmine. Ruby on Rails application.

Yes, Redmine is what many people wanted Trac to be. Issues, wiki, timelines, roadmaps - but also file distribution, forums, categorization, and more. And very good, natural, support for multiple projects (including cross-project reports and moving issues between projects).

I had to write small custom issue importer. Maybe it will be of some use for somebody as a basis for another custom importer.... And yes, I wrote it in Python.