Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:21 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > I also dont see the significance of a proposed app needing to be in 
> > widespread use as the whole purpose of a four month period between 
> > proposal and acceptance is precisely to try them out!
>
> Not really.  The four month is to give it a decent finish: to finish
> integration, documentation, translation, and fixing bugs.  The app
> should have already proved to be the right choice.  One way to prove
> that is to be widely in use by major distros.  Another may be to have
> the vote of major figures in the field inside GNOME.  It's really not
> Russian roulette :-).
>
> To let us know what exactly Tracker does, maybe you can write some stuff
> down in live.gnome.org, describe some usecases, how GNOME apps can
> benefit, etc.  The entire "it's different from Beagle" thing makes it
> not clear what it is.

I have made a start here (will add more later when I have some more time)

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


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