Re: [Tracker] Google Summer of code

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:05 +0100, Andreas Niederl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> jamie wrote:
> > I am considering doing the paperwork next week to get tracker as a
> > mentoring org for google's SoC
> >
> > In order to make this worthwhile, there needs to be an ideas page (on
> > the tracker/live gnome org wiki) which google will look at when deciding
> > to give us anything
>
> An idea would be providing support for running trackerd system-wide as
> an enhancement to (s|r)?locate or a drop-in replacement.
>
> This would require user and group matching, so the searching user only
> sees files accessible to him/her and perhaps some way of shallow
> indexing for certain files (I recently ran some ./autogen.sh &&
> ./configure && make jobs in my $HOME and trackerd went crazy indexing
> every single generated file.), distribution-specific sample
> configurations and probably some other enhancements.
>
> Don't know if that idea suffices for a SoC project though.


I dont want a root version rather a networked version with networked
searches would be better - I suppose that can be an SoC