Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:15 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 18/08/09 17:07, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:55 +0300, Xan Lopez wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Lennart Poettering<mztabzr 0pointer de>  wrote:
> > <snip>
> >>> If tracker-store is not useful on its own and currently not used by
> >>> anything else in GNOME, does it really make sense to push it into
> >>> GNOME?
> >>>
> >>> Also, even if the store has uses besides the indexer, just be honest:
> >>> does it *really* add any measurable benefit to GNOME if this is in
> >>> GNOME if the most important user (which is the indexer) is not?
> >>>
> >>> Does it really make sense to push the store independantly of the
> >>> indexer?
> >>
> >> Well, on one side this is the classical chicken-egg problem, isn't it?
> >
> > Not really. We've had optional dependencies for a while. As a matter of
> > fact, the Tracker hackers could come and update the Tracker plugin to
> > Totem before I consider it obsolete and unmaintained and simply remove
> > it from the repo.
> 
> We will get around to it.

Before 2.28?

> We are really busy at the moment though unfortunately.

Everybody is, but the few early adopters of Tracker should at least get
some love so they can be best of breed examples. The current Tracker
plugin in Totem is everything but.

> Who wrote it initially?

Javier Goday. Philip and I have been maintaining it since.