Re: [Tracker] indexer-split branch report

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> Hi!,
>
> We've been working quite hard this week in the indexer-split branch, and
> I think we're nearly done with all the essential items before a merge
> with trunk is feasible, so here's a brief status report. For more
> detailed info, please check the ChangeLog in that branch [1]
>
> Between other many improvements, from Jamie's list we've implemented:
> - Low disk space check
> - Removing deleted/junk emails from index/DBs
> - Adding back stop words to the parser
>
> The remaining items we're trying to get done before the merge:
> - Deal with all metadata in emails: Nearly done, only attachments are
> missing.
> - Temporary blacklisting of files that change frequently.
> - Index splitting/merging: Would it be necessary if we start using
> Sqlite FTS3 for storing the indexes? Looks like something worthwhile to
> check, this item will bring considerable extra complexity to the
> indexing/querying logic.

sqlite fts has its own internal merging

You can leave out putting back index merging although we wont be able to
have a new tracker release until I have FTS3 and Xesam onto done (if we
merge this week I can try and do this this weekend)


> - Add back implementations for IndexMountedDirectories and
> IndexRemovableMedia configuration options.
>
> We will continue working on these items next week, of course there are
> other missing functionalities, but these can be worked on after the
> merge.


Let me know when its ready for merge - i would really like to merge this
week if possible

thanks for your efforts

jamie