Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 03:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
>   
> > We have just released a new stable version of tracker (0.5.0) which can 
> > be found here:
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.0.tar.bz2
> >
> > I would like to propose this for inclusion into Gnome 2.18 as its now 
> > been well tested and should be stable enough.
> >     
>
> Aside from technical objections, are there any distributions that ship
> this by default?  Do any of these enable it by default?
>
> New applications don't get into GNOME as they may be cool and
> interesting, they get into GNOME as they are used in the real world.  As
> an example, Sound Juicer, IIRC, was the default CD ripper in released
> versions of Red Hat and Mandrake before it was proposed and accepted
> into GNOME.
>   
  I hope this is not the only acceptance criteria. How many distros 
ship epiphany still?
  However, if a distro has already shipped it and its underlining 
dependencies, it does
make it easier for to be accepted :).

-Ghee


> Ross
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