Re: [Tracker] Proposing a release

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

On 27/11/08 17:31, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 18:56 +0200, Ivan Frade wrote:
> > Hi all,

Hi :)

> >   So... comments?
>
>
> Well I was hoping to avoid two forced consecutive reindexes (one for
> 0.69 and one for 0.7)

I don't think that will be possible.

> 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)

I think these time scales are unworkable. Even if we had another 10 
people on the project, we wouldn't have enough time to work out the 
stability and testing to make sure we are happy with the release.

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

I agree. This and volume support are top priorities. As Phillip said, a 
number of us were involved in volume support this week, including 
myself, phillip, Ivan and Jürg. We recognise there is still work to be 
done (specifically on the statistic part which is currently kept in 
QDBM) and we will improve on that when FTS is ready.

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

That was our feeling.

Right now, as already mentioned, there are a number of things going on 
in January and after:

- Crawler to move to Indexer
- FTS support
- Denormalised tables
- Turtle support
- Better libtracker support for Maemo platform applications?

I have probably left a few things out. But none of these are quick tasks 
by any measure, most are on different branches and most will require a 
lot of patch review and testing. As a ballpark I would say you are 
looking at at least 3 months for those to get bedded into TRUNK code base.

It is better to release now. We have been focusing on bug fixing quite a 
lot recently and reluctantly adding features due to the current Maemo 
platform. This doesn't mean we have to do the same upstream, but I would 
suggest releasing both at the same time is probably the best way to 
release something stable anytime soon.

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

Thanks.

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Regards,
Martyn