Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Philip Van Hoof<spam pvanhoof be> wrote:
>
> So sure there are a lot of ramblings about us having to adapt all of
> GNOME's desktop to start using it, but I bet that even if we'd start
> making patches we'd still get as reply from many of the maintainers of
> the individual applications: "sorry, but we can't depend on Tracker".

Well, as a maintainer of a different "not yet fully baked" technology
piece, I think it'd be reasonable to get patches in some applications
as optional dependencies.  As long as you can explain to the
application authors why it's valuable and why they should maintain the
code in the future.

Since you're a DBus service just saying "if (org.freedesktop.Tracker
isn't on the bus); return" isn't that hard.