Hi! On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Carlos Garnacho <carl...@gnome.org> wrote: > Although following its own version numbers, Tracker has been following > lately the gnome schedule. I came to think lately (most nominally, > when rolling this last bunch of tarballs), that the gnome schedule is > indeed too fast paced for Tracker, while we've most often respected > backwards compatibility quite thoroughly. eg. there's distros shipping > 1.8 because that's what came out with gnome 3.20, while 1.10 is a > qualitatively better drop-in replacement. > > I however think going from "odd minor number is unstable" to semver > versioning with minor!=0 is going to be confusing... I will suggest > the following plan: > > - Finish this 1.11.x/1.12 cycle > - Sticking to 1.12.x for as long it's needed while > - Gearing to a Tracker 2.x that switches to using semver approach to > communicate API/ABI changes.
I like this plan. > I'll also take the opportunity to introduce to the ML the "roadmap" > that's been shaping up in my head for 2.x: > > - Getting as close to supporting the full sparql 1.1 spec as possible > in libtracker-data: > ... Agreed > - Double checking ontology migration code, ensure it can handle weird > ontology changes more or less elegantly. sounds good, but is this actually possible? I thought we found that it was too hard to really do this well, and it'll be quite a bit of effort > - Library-fying tracker-store, and separating ontology for good .... Yes! > - And of course, keep dbus-based implementations around, I guess we > can't move too far from nepomuk there, as it's already the implicit > contract between miners and all the surrounding ecosystem. > > However would be great to have the tracker-store executable be more > generic, so you can make it claim a different dbus name, write to a > different location, construct the database using a different > ontology... Yes. > PS. I haven't forgotten the "big rip" thread, nor the "Resource table > fills up with UUIDs" from further in the past, need to get back to > those... One other thing to throw out here since we're on the subject of a roadmap, I don't have strong opinion on if/when this is adopted but I've been working on new build instructions using Meson: <https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/log/?h=wip/sam/meson>. They're maybe 75% complete at this point. Sam _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
