Re: [Tracker] Proposing a release

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 18:56 +0200, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  We have been working hard last months, and now we have a tracker in a
> stable state. I think it is so stable as to propose a release in a
> couple of weeks.
>
>  It could be tracker 0.6.90, and would include a completely refactored
> daemon (splitted in two processes), introspection in the DBus API,
> modules for the indexer, some new convenience methods in the API, some
> documentation, initial support for playlists and a lot of other
> improvements like unit tests (low coverage, but there they are), the
> opportunity to build modules for the indexer out-of-the-tree and...
> well, somebody should prepare proper Release Notes.
>
>  Things like FTS and the decomposed tables schema should wait for the
> next release. This changes are going to break the API completely, and
> are so big and deep that justify a 0.7 version. I think a "last" release
> in the 0.6.x series is necessary.
>
>  Jamie: What do you think about this?
>
>  The people in Rygel (previously GUpnp) are using tracker and to have a
> new release would simplify a lot their life (at least in the
> technological level). It can also help us to bugtriagging the current
> bugs, and receive fresh feedback from regular users.
>
>  The pending tasks for this release (if Jamie agree on it) are at least:
>
> * Finish the save/restore of metadata between reindexes
> * Better handling of removable devices
>
>  So... comments?


Well I was hoping to avoid two forced consecutive reindexes (one for
0.69 and one for 0.7)

Depending on time (not mine but the nokia team - I shall have some time
around xmas) I would like to release in january with FTS and decomposed
tables including updated ontology (nepomuk and/or xesam)

So I would prefer any time to be spent on getting the db and index
structure finalised. 

If the above is not realistic then we could well do a 0.69 before xmas

Also pls keep an eye on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker

as well as bugzilla bugs and make sure the new stuff fixes any serious
problem mentioned there

jamie