Re: Beagle hackfest at GNOME Summit

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Wow! Not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited for most of this stuff!

On 10/11/06, Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We had a hackfest at the GNOME Summit in Boston this past weekend.
>
> Here's a quick rundown of the things people decided to work on:
>
>         * Me - Working on updating the indexer to better handle support
>         of user-provided metadata.  Originally my plan was to store
>         metadata in an sqlite database and use Lucene for text search,
>         but having worked on the implementation since the summit this
>         doesn't look very feasible.  More investigation on the Lucene
>         side needs to be done.
Is this a continuation of what max has done? Or are we talking about a
fresh start here?
>         * Fredrik Hedberg - Work on merging the two Google Summer of
>         Code projects to add networking support to Beagle.  One half of
>         the project was the main search support, which is done over
>         HTTP, and the second half is Avahi support so that other Beagle
>         servers around you are autodetected.
>
>         * Aaron Bockover and Daniel Drake - Moving our audio filters
>         over to using taglib-sharp instead of entagged-sharp, which is
>         now deprecated and unmaintained.  I think the work here is now
>         mostly done, but it's not in CVS yet.
Theres a bug, I think I attached a mildly functional filer, dunno...
>         * Gabriel Burt - Looked into increased integration of Beagle and
>         F-Spot.  Not sure what the result of this was.
Any chance this includes extracting itpc data from images without f-spot?

>         * Dan Winship - As a broader goal desktop goal, decided to look
>         into moving Beagle to Cmake and learn its strengths and
>         weaknesses.  It sounds like there are a lot of weaknesses, at
>         least within using it in GNOME.
>
>         * Robert Love - Hanger on; spell checker; incorrectly
>         attributing typos to me.
>
> Later, Bastien Nocera talked to me about creating a video filter based
> on Totem.  He implemented it, and it's now waiting on my lazy ass to
> commit it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361047
Would we migrate to this over the mplayer one? And if so, don't we
have to wait on the next release of totem to actauly have access to
the totem-indexer executable?
> Joe
>
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Kevin Kubasik
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