Hello,

I'm a new piwigo user here, and so far I like what I see a lot. One thing that I'm trying to get working is raw file support. It looks like there is some support maybe for uploading raw files from lightroom, but specifically I'm looking for a way to put raw files on the server by ftp, and then run synchronize, and then have those files show up as albums (converted to jpg) just as though I had placed jpg files there. What would also be great is if I could then click download on any of those files and have the option to download either the jpg or the original raw file.

It looks like there was a bunch of work done a few years ago to get raw file support accomplished, at least for web uploads. (Here http://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=24845 and here http://piwigo.org/bugs/view.php?id=3182) Looking at the code that was written there it looks like probably most of the work to make a raw files plugin has already been completed but it seems to have stalled back in May of 2015 and never was finished to the point of being a real plugin. It also seems to not have support for ftp uploads.

I was thinking I could write a script ran on a cron job to look for raw files and convert them with dcraw and imagemagick, so jpg files would be waiting for the next synchronize job. But that seems messy and it would be great for other people too if this existed as a working plugin.

I suppose I could dig into the code and try to figure out what needs to be still done and complete it, but I thought I would ask here if anyone else was working on the same kind of thing, or maybe if someone who knows piwigo better than me is interested in a project :-) Or maybe despite my pretty good google-fu this has already been made and I just didn't find it.

Any thoughts?
Thanks!
-David