Re: [Tracker] Question about the Roadmap

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Le mardi 21 novembre 2006 Ã 17:26 +0100, Javier Arantegui a Ãcrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > It seems that Tracker is getting better very rapidly. I've read its
> > roadmap (*), and I wonder if its development is following it. I mean,
> > I can wait until January when it's planned that Tracker will index
> > e-mails (my most needed feature), but I would like to know if the plan
> > is followed or, even better, if the email indexing could be move
> > forward.
>
> I am currently working on email indexing and I expect to send a patch
> which will make Tracker store emails in its database by the end of the
> week. But it will not let you query database to retrieve your emails
> (for the moment).


It would be best not to do that.

I will be changing the DB structure in next release to make way for our 
new more powerful metadata system. Currently we can not handle metadata 
that has multiple values for the same type (such as Email.To which can 
contain many addresses) but the new system will enable us to overcome 
these limitations.

Instead of tryting to save them in the DB, there are more urgent fixes 
needed:

The big fixes that are needed for Evolution emails:

1) Get correct URI - currently its wrong or shows the wrong email (I 
expect this is to do with the UID  being in hex and not decimal - not 
sure which the uri uses?)

2) Need to dynamically index all mbox files - looking at beagle's source 
this means watching all files with .ev-summary ending (only mboxes have 
a corresponding summary file EG Sent.ev-summary  ). Currently its hard 
coded to Sent and Inbox which is useless for virtual folders and does 
not pick up my Gnome mbox (gnome and gnome.ev-summary is there).

3) Evolution caches remote emails from an smtp server in a different 
place and with different extensions/summary files - we will need to 
crack those (Beagle source again is useful here)

I will be happy to do the DB end of things for the emails once the new 
metadata system is ready but lets get most of the above fixed first :)


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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