Re: [Tracker] Developer documentation

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 04:53 +0100, Anders Feder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been poking around Tracker again recently, and I've seen a couple
> of references (in blog posts and elsewhere) to the lack of documentation
> of the API of Tracker.
>
> If there is any interest, I would like to take a stab at producing such
> documentation - I figured it would be a good opportunity to get familiar
> with the internals of Tracker, while making it easier for others to use
> it at the same time.

Awesome and great at the same time.

> Would anyone be interested in mentoring me a bit on this? 

Yeah sure. Join our IRC channel #tracker on GimpNET and ping juergbi,
pvanhoof, martyn, garnacho, ottela, konttori, frade, jamiemc, webustany,
jc2k, ...

> I will need
> some requirements with regards to formatting of the docs, and a few
> pointers to get started on how the API works.

SPARQL and SPARQL Update are the specifications that you need to read,
and Nepomuk is the ontology. 

And then the Tracker 0.7 section here:

http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation

You can use that wiki page to add your pages to.


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