Hi! On 10/28/16, Carlos Garnacho <carl...@gnome.org> wrote: > It is well known that Tracker has been accumulating lots of code and > features over the years, with greatly varying states of maintenance. > There's been earlier talks in this ML about splitting the whole thing > into more palatable chunks, some refactoring happened towards making > this easier, but it was never accomplished. > > So I'd say now is just as a good time as any to finally do this, I've > pushed (so far) the following WIP branches I worked on the last couple > of evenings: > > - wip/split/core : contains Tracker "core", most notably > tracker-store, ontologies, libtracker-sparql, libtracker-miner, > libtracker-control and the tracker CLI tool. > - wip/split/miner-fs : contains everything around FS miner, > tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract and tracker-writeback. > wip/split/rss: contains tracker-miner-rss only. > > The three branches pass distcheck and build stuff into separate > tarballs, so (with some rebasing) they're a suitable starting point > for standalone repos.
I think we need to be careful about doing this in a way that's useful for everyone, and only dong it if there's a good reason. So it would be great if some Tracker users & packagers could comment here. It might be worth cc'ing the distributor-list to get wider feedback. What are the use cases of the separated tracker-core and tracker-miner-fs repos? I mean, in what situations will someone want to use one without the other? > Now, the bad news, things are broken, unmaintained or IMHO should be > deleted: > > - tracker-preferences: I'm a bit opinionated on this one, > tracker-preferences is a mixed bag of store and miner-fs > configuration, and having a GUI to configure a daemon is too 2000's > (not just the UI itself...). I think some of its functionality could > be moved to the tracker CLI tool, or just be left to DE integration > (like gnome search preferences). It should really be left to desktop environment configuration, indeed... The existing code is no doubt a good starting point for a gnome-control-centre panel. Perhaps we should have some kind of tracker-example-apps repo for the existing preferences code? It's basically all miner-fs config, I don't see any store configuration options there (which seems correct, there's nothing useful for end-users to configure about the store). > - tracker-needle: This is barely maintained, IMHO we're beyond the > times that we needed a standalone/demo GUI, other apps out there make > a better work at making Tracker look nice. That said, I know other > people saw this useful, so if anyone is willing to maintain it, I'd > gladly set up other branch/repo for it. Again, move to a tracker-example-apps repo? > - tracker-miner-apps: AFAIK this is unused since the maemo times, I'd > say to send it to the chopper, unless anyone wants to resuscitate it. > > - tracker-miner-user-guides: ditto. Maybe the Jolla folk are still using this? If so maybe they could adopt them? They're not useful in GNOME to my knowledge. > - evolution plugin/miner: it's been broken for ages. Again, if anyone > cares enough to pick this up and fix it... > > - firefox and thunderbird plugins: They are basically unmaintained, > and AFAIR thunderbird was even blacklisted due to stability issues. > - nautilus tagging extension: Another one I have a hard time caring... > If this feature is as desirable, should be implemented in nautilus > itself (and most likely with better looking and more integrated > results). I'll probably split it, make a release, and never revisit > again. As above, maintainers welcome. Seems fair, these are definitely not getting enough maintenance to be considered part of 'core' tracker. ... > The only oddity I see is that the tracker CLI tool (residing in the > core) pokes virtually everywhere, it would be nicer to make the > "tracker" command a shallow interface to subcommands, that are > installed by either tracker core, miner-fs, or whatever. I spotted that; > In the future, we would want the ontology out of Tracker core, but > probably at the time we can claim tracker-store is a generic SPARQL > endpoint :) > > Comments? Maintainers? I won't rush this much, but would certainly > want to tackle this before the branches become too hard to > rebase/merge. I don't really have the desire to become a maintainer, but at the same time it seems like you have to do everything right now so I am willing to step up my involvement a bit... perhaps I could take on one of the repos. Sam _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
