Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 21:26 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> First to clarify, tracker is not a dedicated indexer (like Beagle and 
> Strigi) but is first and foremost a database which has indexing as a 
> side feature.

Are there any *currently existing* GNOME applications that make use of
tracker's data store? Has there been any interest coming *from
application authors* for porting their apps to use the tracker data
store? You talked about porting epiphany to store its bookmarks in
tracker, but I can't find anything evidence either that (a) you've
actually tried this yet and verified that it works well, or (b) any of
the epiphany developers has expressed any interest in adopting tracker
as a bookmark storage (regardless of whether or not tracker is accepted
into GNOME).

(For a contrast, look at Leaftag, which only does a tiny subset of what
tracker promises, but which the deskbar and tomboy maintainers were both
quite excited about integrating with
(http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-03-06/deskbar-and-leaftag-last-exit, http://beatniksoftware.com/pipermail/tomboy-list_beatniksoftware.com/2006-March/001119.html)
That's the sort of real-world evidence that people are looking for
here.)

If indexing is only a "side feature" of tracker, and no one is using any
of its "real" features, then tracker is completely unproven technology.

-- Dan