When

• Date: Saturday 30th May 2020
• When: 15.00 UTC

• Where: https://meeten.statt-drosseln.de/b/sam-nae-jep

Agenda

• Progress on app porting
  • GNOME Photos: how can we migrate albums from Tracker 2 database?
• ...

Present

• JeanFelder

• CarlosGarnacho

• MarinusSchraal

• SamThursfield

Notes

App porting

• - How do we export albums, playlists etc from tracker 2 database?
  • - We don't want Music and Photos to depend on Tracker 2 *and* 3

    - Maybe a sort of tracker export | tracker3 import --database ... pipeline, where we make a new release of Tracker 2 to allow exporting the data

  - grilo:
  • - WIP branch done, it works - Totem works with a small change - Can work for Gnome Music too

    • - Tracker plugin will allow custom queries via the GrlQuery, so we can support querying things like playcounts from a private database. Writing custom keys can't be done via Grilo, apps will need to use TrackerSparqlConnection directly for this. - carlos has a WIP branch of gnome-music already

  - GTK branches already merged -- everything already depends on Tracker 3 now !!! - libfolks -- carlos thinks this is a bit messy
  • - Is anyone actually storing contacts in Tracker? - if the official GNOME solution for storing Contacts is to use e-d-s, why have this backend at all?

    • -> need to contact maintainers of libfolks and discuss this.

  - boxes - this should be straightforward to port - hopefully we can finish porting by next 2 weeks

Flatpak portal

• - branch is updated, just need to fix an Alpine build failure - Carlos needs to request review from flatpak mailing list still

  - Once this is merged, you can test apps with it by following the existing process at https://discourse.gnome.org/t/tracker-3-app-porting/3351

Performance and indexing testing

• - there are some miner optimisations we can do post 3.0 - we can avoid blocking indexing a folder for the parent folder - sam wants to organise some community testing of extraction performance before 3.0 so we can take opportunity to make backwards-incompatible changes

Tasks

We will aim to have all apps ported by next meeting (13th June).

We need to contact maintainers, politely request reviews and explain that all Tracker 3 branches need to be merged for 3.38 or we have to postpone everything until 3.40.

Next Meeting

../20200613