Re: [Tracker] Google Summer of code

[Marko Anastasov <marko marko anastasov name>]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:16 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Marko Anastasov <marko marko anastasov name> wrote:
> > On ÐÐÐ, 2007-03-05 at 00:42 +0000, jamie wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > the deadline is 12th March so what I need are ideas and also are there
> > > any students here that are eligible and willing to work on tracker for
> > > SoC?
> >
> > I am an eligible student and I plan to apply for SoC. My original
> > idea was to propose [1] as a GNOME project. It is something I'll
> > start working on at some point anyway. However I understand that
> > there's the question of reusability and integration. For instance,
> > I need a tag cloud, but it would be much wiser to work on a tag
> > cloud widget in libtracker-gtk first. Also a new library for client
> > applications needs to be written. I think this could be one idea,
> > although I'm not 100% sure if it's "big" enough.
>
> Just curious of your progress on this?

Expect the tag cloud widget in tracker trunk in a few days.

The application that I described there is slowly emerging, I believe
that it now makes sense to register a new GNOME module soon; again it's
a matter of days. When this happens I guess I'll announce it on the
gnome-announce list, as suggested by the new GNOME svn repo policy.

A bare-bones glimpse of it can be seen in my recent blog post [1].

A GObject-based client library is necessary, and I think that it would
make a lot of sense for it to be in essence an interface to XESAM.

        Marko

[1] http://www.marko.anastasov.name/blog/?p=16