[Tracker] Review of the new Evolution/Generic E-mail metadata support for Tracker

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

This Friday I will post a patch that will need a review.

The patch implements this proposal. The people who are interested in
reviewing it should read it first:

http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadata

Short version:

"Several applications on our desktop computers and mobile devices want
to know about the metadata that E-mail clients have about the messages
they know about. This document is an attempt at specifying a D-Bus API
for retrieving this metadata from the clients in a way that the
components will see themselves being updated by pushing (Evolution will
send new data actively, as it's a push mechanism, not a pull
mechanism)."

I have been posting intermediate patches, so if you can't wait with
reviewing you can already go look at the current state of the patch at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565091


But life ain't awesome just yet. The work depends on bugs and patches
for Evolution Data Server. More information about its dependencies can
be found here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565082
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565681
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566279

The reviewer for those patches is Srinivasa Ragavan (Evolution
maintainer for Novell).

Reviewers that I have in mind for the Tracker parts at this moment are:

 - Martyn Russel: contributed to the current support and various
   infrastructure related to this
 - Carlos Garnacho: developed the current support

Other people should feel free to review alongside if they want to do
this.


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