Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 18/08/09 19:17, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:44 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On 18/08/09 17:28, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> <snip>
> > > > > Or in short: just f*ing fix the kernel first.
> > > >
> > > > Are you volunteering? :)
> > >
> > > I am not hacking on Tracker, am I?
> >
> > And Tracker is not the kernel either, it is also not the only
> > application that could benefit :)
>
> Right, so you don't want to do the work[1], you could at least engage
> people who can work on fixing the problem. I didn't see anyone coming
> from Tracker talk about what interfaces they would need before it was
> discussed at GCDS this year.

I didn't say that and that is not the case either. I did talk to various 
people about improving the problems we have at GCDS this year. I also am 
not against fixing it or helping towards fixing it. I just resent people 
saying that we should fix a technology in the kernel because it "should 
be better" and isn't designed with our particular use case in mind and 
that it is our responsibility to do so before we can include Tracker.

> Let's assume the indexer is still broken.

Quite a large assumption

> Work on the integration in the desktop as a showcase.

> [1]: Note that GNOME has been particularly good about engaging X and
> kernel developers in the past, and even doing the work when there wasn't
> even movement. This is the sort of attitude we want to see from GNOME
> projects.

Rob has, I have, and Philip has really been doing a lot of too.

I should also add, inotify is not the ONLY technology which we have been 
discussing, setrlimit() is another and I could probably list a few 
others which we have been talking about with kernel developers.

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Regards,
Martyn