Re: Proposed module: tracker

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On 1/8/07, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Information about tracker:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/

I object to tracker not on any technical merits, but as a project I
don't think we have a concrete idea of what we want to use it for, I
feel that its getting proposed because its a piece of cool technology
and we don't want to miss out on not having it to compete with other
desktops.

I would be scared that it would be added to GNOME before we work out
our actual requirements for it, and without the requirements how can
we know that tracker solves them?

Unfortunatly, the only way to know this is for applications to try to
use it and find out what is missing, what it does well and what it
doesn't do well. This is, to me, the solution for the chicken/egg
race. The applications use it to find out if it does what is needed
and then if it does, we add it to GNOME.

Another worry would be that really an indexer would ideally be desktop
agnostic and I'd like to see KDE and GNOME share an indexer/metadata
store/whatever tracker is, because I don't want two indexers indexing
my data for each desktop. Is there any moves to getting tracker used
in KDE as well?

(Plus I note that jeff/ebassi's concerns about what "tracker" is
haven't really been answered)

iain

PS: I would have similar objections to Beagle at this moment in time as well.