Wombat

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Introduction to WOMBAT

The goal of WorldForge Open Media Browser/Artist Tool (WOMBAT) is to produce a free digital asset management tool for teams of artists with a focus on usability and easy integration into existing work pipelines.

About

WOMBAT is an Open Source (GNU GPLv2+ licensed) digital asset management software based around the Pylons web-application framework and Apache. It allows groups of artists to collect all their assets in a repository and create task-related groupings of those assets.

WOMBAT is still in the very first stages of it's development.

Features

  • Web front-end to to browse the repository.
  • (planned) User/group management.
  • (in progress) Asset collection management.
  • (planned) WebDAV access to the repository for desktop integration

Requirements

Running the WOMBAT server is not yet recommended to the general public and the requirements are expected to change as WOMBAT evolves.

However, the current requirements are:

  • Apache2 with mod_wsgi
  • Pylons
  • PIL, the python imaging library
  • A repository back-end (currently we only support Subversion)
  • SQLAlchemy >= 0.4.2p3 (SQLAlchemy 0.5.0 betas will not work)

News

WOMBAT 0.3.0 was released on 2008-08-13

Also, you can follow the WOMBAT development blog

Roadmap

WOMBAT saw it's 0.0.1 release on 2008-06-30, development has been going fast since then.

The following roadmap is a rough plan on how I want to continue development on it.

  • 0.1.0 - First alpha release
  • 0.2.0 - Second alpha release featuring svn backend
  • 0.3.0 - Rewritten data model.
  • 0.4.0 - User management / commenting
  • 0.9.0 - First beta release, feature freeze
  • 1.0.0 - Ready for production use.

History

See the Wombat History Page for release goals of previous releases.

Developing WOMBAT

Source code

Get the current WOMBAT code from git via git://git.worldforge.org/wombat.git

You can view the WOMBAT sources at http://git.worldforge.org/?p=wombat.git

Also see the task list for current tasks.

Bugs and Issues

Found a bug? File it in the WOMBAT bug tracker.

We use Lauchnpads "Blueprint" feature to track suggestions for WOMBAT

Talking to the developers

WOMBAT developers usually hang out on IRC at irc://irc.worldforge.org/#coders or, if no-one is around to answer you there, on the general mailing list of WorldForge. See the general@ listinfo page.

Tasks

See the task list for current tasks.

Releases

Go to WOMBAT's Launchpad trunk page and download the egg for your python version.

Deploying Wombat

Releases

Go to WOMBAT's Launchpad trunk page and download the egg for your python version.

Deploying a release

See the Wombat User guide.

Demo Server

View the WOMBAT demo server at http://wombat.worldforge.org/

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