Re: [Tracker] FOSDEM 2015

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 12/12/14 22:51, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
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> Carlos, Sam, Xavier, Bastien,

Hey guys,

> I think especially Carlos could do a presentation about the
> passive-extraction having been introduced this year. It was for sure a
> major architecture-change to Tracker and I do think you should show it
> to the world!
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> I also think Martyn should do a presentation on the command line of
> tracker's tools. Among many more things tou supervised, Martyn.

I would love to, but I can't make FOSDEM this year.
I can certainly write some slides and/or give one of the team 
information to help with a presentation.

Regarding the command line work, actually that would be quite cool to 
present because it affects anyone really using Tracker. Not much has 
changed in terms of functionality, but I think Tracker is more 
accessible now as a result. It would also be quite easy to demonstrate.

There are another 3 things we've done recently, but I am not sure if 
it's all interesting enough to present, specifically:

1. The new TrackerDataProvider and TrackerEnumerator API in 
libtracker-miner to allow third party data providers (e.g. cloud data).

2. Clean up of unused APIs internally to reduce the footprint of 
binaries like libtracker-common.

3. The ontology has been moved into src/ and there is no longer a data/ 
directory - so all binaries now have their data in their respective 
directories. This is in preparation for a possible split of the code 
base into separate modules. Actually, I am not sure this will happen 
before 1.4, but preparation for it is at least a first step. Some time 
in a presentation could be spent discussing this point and what we hope 
to achieve at least. There may be some useful feedback from an audience 
on this.

> I think Xavier Claesse could do a presentation of the priority work,
> too? You also contributed a lot to what Carlos did.

I must admit, from an application's point of view, this would be quite 
interesting!

> Maybe Bastien can do a presentation for the eBook support? Or the
> GStreamer stuff?

There is also some other upcoming EBook work IIRC right Bastien? Maybe I 
miss-remember this, but I got the impression there are some other 
formats that you were keen to have supported at a later stage?

> Sam could like every year do a presentation about the many fixes and
> bugs he solved last year?

This is mainly functional-tests as I recall, this might not be too 
interesting to users? But if Sam is there and happy to present other 
stuff, I think it would be welcomed!

Thanks Philip / all,

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder & Director @ Lanedo GmbH.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/martynrussell