Re: New module proposal: tracker

[John Carr <john carr unrouted co uk>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> On 27/10/09 03:34, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net
>> <mailto:ak-47 gmx net>> wrote:
>>
>>    Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Martyn Russell:
>>     > I would like to propose Tracker as a new GNOME module.
>>
>>    The GNOME release-team will soon decide about module inclusions for
>>    GNOME 2.30.
>>
>>    To the GNOME developers:
>>    If you have not commented yet, if there is anything to add, if you have
>>    questions to the maintainer: Please comment now.
>>
>>
>> I have one comment and I think from a marketing perspective, I would
>> like to see that we are on par with the other desktops. OSX has
>> spotlight, and I believe windows has winfs or at least it has something
>> built in.  We are doing ourselves no favors when we are not feature
>> complete against other desktops.
>
> Carlos Garnacho and I did spend 2 or 3 days writing an application similar
> to spotlight - although it is just a quick mock up to demonstrate the speed
> and ability of Tracker and could do with some more love. The blog/video
> about it is here:
>
>  http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2009/09/30/tracker-0-7-released/
>
>> I am though a little disheartened that they had such a hard time coming
>> up with use cases.  :/
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since posting the initial request a lot has changed. 0.7.0 up to 0.7.4
> versions have been released, we are doing weekly releases now too. After
> some brief talk on IRC, we are considering making stable releases from the
> end of the year or so.
>
> Regarding use cases, this is how it is being used now (0.7.x that is)
>
> Maemo platform (I may have missed some cases):
>
>  * Calendar
>  * Bookmarks
>  * Image Viewer
>  * Media Player
>  * Instant Messaging (I think)

Could you expand on what this means? Is tracker being used as the
primary store for calendar in Maemo now? Or is it just indexing the
calendar. Etc.

> For the desktop:
>
>  * Totem - http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2009/10/07/tracker-totem/
>  * Evolution
>  * File system (of course)
>  * Applications (desktop files)

Here its just acting as an indexer and putting stuff in the RDF store,
right? And consuming data in totems case?

> In the works:
>
>  * Zeitgeist
>  * Photo management application - work done by Debarshi Ray
>  * Epiphany developers were looking into using it - progress unknown.
>  * We have a branch we are currently looking into merging with web
>    application support (facebook, flickr, twitter, etc) - work done
>    by Adrien Bustany (GSoC student).

The web miners are awesome.

> Perhaps Bastien will change his opinion now I fixed up his app :P
>
> --
> Regards,
> Martyn

John