Evaluate the publishing plugins

[tintou]

Are they still working?

In pantheon-photos-publishing:

• [ ] FacebookPublishing
• [ ] PiwigoPublishing
• [ ] FlickrPublishing
• [ ] PicasaPublishing
• [ ] YouTubePublishing

In pantheon-photos-publishing-extras:

• [ ] TumblrPublishing
• [ ] YandexPublishing

[davidmhewitt]

You're thinking about the same thing as me :sweat_smile:

I was just looking how hard it would be to port all of this to Soup 3, and it's not a small amount of work. But it might not be worth the effort if none of these plugins are working because the APIs changed.

However, if we want to reduce the amount of work:

• Picasa doesn't exist anymore so that can be deleted.
• YouTube is surely only for publishing videos, which seems like a really niche feature for a photo manager, so I vote that's deleted too?

[davidmhewitt]

It's actually really easy and satisfying to delete all of these and remove the Dependency on Soup altogether :rofl:

[tintou]

I also believe that the Facebook one isn't working because the API key is unlikely to be still valid and… it's untouched since a decade

[tintou]

The last significant update is https://github.com/elementary/photos/commit/447e28aaeded4e72fb43ef79d33b5461db2a1599 from 2016 :upside_down_face:

[danirabbit]

I'm on team delete them all 😬

[zeebok]

• YouTube is surely only for publishing videos, which seems like a really niche feature for a photo manager, so I vote that's deleted too?

I think this would depend on keeping video file support in Photos. I have seen some people say to keep it though I really question the benefit it provides.

[zeebok]

I'm on team delete them all grimacing

That or perhaps they need to a rewrite from scratch for up-to-date places. Flickr is owned by SmugMug now and they may have public APIs but I dunno what kind of percentage of users this would benefit though.