Re: [Tracker] indexer-split branch report

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 18:11 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> > Hi!,

Hi :)

> > We've been working quite hard this week in the indexer-split branch, and
> > I think we're nearly done with all the essential items before a merge
> > with trunk is feasible, so here's a brief status report. For more
> > detailed info, please check the ChangeLog in that branch [1]
> >
> > Between other many improvements, from Jamie's list we've implemented:
> > - Low disk space check
> > - Removing deleted/junk emails from index/DBs
> > - Adding back stop words to the parser
> >
> > The remaining items we're trying to get done before the merge:
> > - Deal with all metadata in emails: Nearly done, only attachments are
> > missing.
> > - Temporary blacklisting of files that change frequently.
> > - Index splitting/merging: Would it be necessary if we start using
> > Sqlite FTS3 for storing the indexes? Looks like something worthwhile to
> > check, this item will bring considerable extra complexity to the
> > indexing/querying logic.
>
> sqlite fts has its own internal merging
>
> You can leave out putting back index merging although we wont be able to
> have a new tracker release until I have FTS3 and Xesam onto done (if we
> merge this week I can try and do this this weekend)

Sounds fine to me.

> > - Add back implementations for IndexMountedDirectories and
> > IndexRemovableMedia configuration options.
> >
> > We will continue working on these items next week, of course there are
> > other missing functionalities, but these can be worked on after the
> > merge.
>
> Let me know when its ready for merge - i would really like to merge this
> week if possible

So would we. :)

We will look to finish up the last details (testing) tomorrow.

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Regards,
Martyn