Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Qui, 2006-10-19 �10:13 -0400, Hubert Figuiere escreveu:
> > 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.
> 
> That is a very polite way to say no, but I don't think it is
> appropriate. If the Gnome project want to try to driver innovation, it
> has to make its own decisions, not wait for others like distribution to
> make them.
> 

I don't think anyone will disagree with that, and it probably explains
why GNOME ships gnome-system-tools, epiphany and probably a few others
I'm forgetting.

I think the point is that Tracker needs to be mature before it can be
part of the GNOME desktop release, and even more so if applications like
Epiphany are going to depend on it.

The fact that Tracker isn't yet shipped by the most popular
distributions at all (not in Fedora Core or Extras, Ubuntu's main or
universe, Debian unstable, Mandriva, etc) means that it's not very
mature yet. That doesn't mean the GNOME community shouldn't discuss if
Tracker should be integrated in the future, but it probably says that
2.18 (4 months from now) might be too soon.

Another example I'd like to point out is that even gnome-power-manager
was "rejected" for the 2.14 release for not being mature enough, even
though distributions like Fedora Core and Ubuntu shipped *and* enabled
that version by default.

Cheers,
Evandro