Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 18/08/09 18:50, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:05 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On 18/08/09 17:48, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > On 08/18/2009 12:32 PM, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > > The only reason you're suggesting tracker-store shouldn't be called
> > > > "tracker" is due to the social stigma associated with what Tracker is,
> > > > i.e. all about the file system.
> > >
> > > The stigma associated with Tracker is because historically the tracker
> > > hackers have been unable to describe what the non-filesystem-indexing
> > > part of Tracker does without either (a) sounding like a dead German
> > > philosopher,
> >
> > Well, I am English ;) so no chance of that.
> >
> > > or (b) claiming it solves all possible problems involving
> > > "data".
> >
> > I don't think I have heard any Tracker developers state it solves all
> > problems involving data. Who, when, where was this?
>
> Paraboles.
>
> I have no idea what a semantic search is,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search

> or what an ontology is supposed to be either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

> If the tracker-store (which seems to be what's being proposed) is great
> for storing web browser history, and making it available, why not start
> there?

We have started there, just not in GNOME specifically :) the Maemo 
platform does have integration with tracker-store, but I don't think I 
can go into detail. So technically, there are applications using 
tracker-store, just none in GNOME except Evolution and Evolution really 
just pushes data to us via a plugin and we do the SPARQL bit internally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL

> Having the tracker-store in GNOME just for the sake of having it there
> (or hoping that developers will start using it because it's blessed) is
> the wrong way around. Write patches for apps to use it, otherwise it's
> as good as dead-weight.

Once we have our bit in a good state, we can work on more apps sure. 
Right now, Evolution and the file system miner are the two internal data 
providers for the store.

I know I forgot about the Evolution work, for that I apologise.

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Regards,
Martyn