Re: Module Proposal: Zeitgeist

[Seif Lotfy <seif lotfy com>]

Hey Luis.
Very good question. Zeitgeist and Tracker are compeletely different.
Tracker is a metadata storage. It is used to store tags and
information about files and other data on your computer.
Zeitgeist is a log. It is a very intelligent and responsive log. We
can not do what tracker providers. Tracker can not do what we provide.

Zeitgeist has narrowed down its scope and domain of services to do one
thing and do it good. There is no conflict of interest between
Zeitgeist and Tracker.

Tracker and Zeitgeist are encourages to be used together. Tracker is
awesome for searching. Zeitgeist can then sort these search results
according to recency, frequency or relevancy.

Hope this answers your question.
Cheers
Seif

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks Shaun for your reply, unfortunatly looks like who decides everything
> for GNOME Project are the Design team or the RedHat employees and not the
> community. This makes me belive that the community no longer has the power
> to decide anything that aren't the way that the designers planned, please
> don't do the same as the projects you always criticise!
>
> Now talking about Zeitgeist it seems to me that it proved stability and
> further adoption on other projects but not the project it was designed at
> the beginning (am i right Sief ?). The maintainers are very open to
> suggestions and to improve the adoption on more modules. So this is a big +1
> for the inclusion. But still care to explain what should we do with tracker
> ? Should we use both ?
>
> Cheers
> Luis
>
>
> 2012/4/21 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
>>
>> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 13:46 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>> > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
>> > > On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 12:59 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>> > >> We have a design and a plan for finding
>> > >> and reminding, and Zeitgeist doesn't seem like the right technology
>> > >> to
>> > >> implement that plan.
>> > >
>> > > Who's "we"?
>> >
>> > "We", the GNOME designers.
>> >
>> > > Where is this plan?
>> >
>> > It's called Documents, and Photos, and Videos, and Music... basically,
>> > anything in here:
>> >
>> >   https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps
>> >
>> > > And why isn't it going through
>> > > the feature proposal process?
>> >
>> > I believe it has.
>>
>> I'm not seeing it in my mail archives.
>>
>> Your previous email seems to indicate that the features for 3.6 are
>> already a foregone conclusion, and that Zeitgeist doesn't fit into
>> that. But that just can't be, because WE the GNOME community decide
>> what's in the next version right here on d-d-l during the proposal
>> period.
>>
>> --
>> Shaun
>>
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