Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 28/10/09 23:23, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Ivan Frade<ivan frade gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)<zeenix gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   FWIW, as the maintainer of a project (Rygel) which started as a UPnP
> > > wrapper around Tracker an year and half ago, I don't think Tracker has
> > > yet proven itself worthy of being part of GNOME. Don't get me wrong,
> > > Tracker has been improving a lot lately and so far I really love the
> > > new 0.7 API but since most distros are still shipping 0.6 Tracker,
> > > currently writing an app on top of Tracker is only getting into a big
> > > mess of confusion.
> >
> > The transition 0.6 ->  0.7 is going to be equally difficult in 6 months, and
> > this delay would stop everything without any obvious benefit. The new
> > tracker is in good shape for applications, and we should make it available
> > for them as soon as possible.
>
>    Since 0.7 is still very new and is almost completely different from
> 0.6, I don't think it's a good idea to already decide to make it
> integral part of GNOME. IMO right now you should push on the distros
> to start shipping that (e.g Ubuntu Karmic still seem to have 0.6) and
> once distro and existing apps have competely moved to 0.7, all
> concerned parties will have a significant amount of trust on the
> tracker project and the decision to make it part of GNOME will go much
> smoothly in the next release.

I think assuming that a project has to be shipped by distros before it 
can be in GNOME or visa versa doesn't make sense.

Distros ALWAYS ship what they want and they want something stable. 0.6 
is the last stable version we have and 0.7.

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Regards,
Martyn