Re: Tracker, Zeitgeist, Couchdb...where is the problem ?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:48 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I think this recent discussion about tracker as a gnome module is
> somewhat backwards. I don't think it is leading us anywhere to talk
> about ontologies and rdf and events and timelines and metadata stores
> and kernel apis before we answer the first question:
> 
> What is the user problem that we are solving here ?
> Can that be described in a paragraph ?
> And if it can, is it something that a 'regular' user would recognize
> as a problem he has on his computer ?
> 
> Once we have the problem scoped out, we need to look at the user
> experience we want to aim for in solving it. Will it be a single
> search-for-everything dialog ? A query language ? Tagging everywhere ?
> 
> After that, it might be possible to evaluate whether tracker,
> zeitgeist, couchdb or something else can be part of the
> implementation...
> 
couchdb provides just the storage of any kind of data, no indexing,
searching, etc, so I think they solve different problems. In fact,
tracker could just use local files as storage or a couchdb database. If
using couchdb, it would get replication and synchronization for free,
but it would still provide the indexing