When

• Date: Saturday 27th June 2020
• When: 15.00 UTC

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

Agenda

• Review items from previous meeting

• Progress on app porting -- is it done yet ?

• How to run Tracker 3 apps on LTS distros (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Initiatives/-/issues/17#note_843087)

• IndexFile API changes (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/-/issues/188)

Present

• CarlosGarnacho

• JensGeorg

• SamThursfield

Notes

• App porting
  • Not much progress from me or Carlos on either Grilo or Photos.
  • Rygel
    • Upload will be disabled on tracker3 plugin for now, a discussion is needed about how this would work. It's probably not a widely used feature.
    • Phako was seeing an issue with file descriptor leaking, which is now gone. We're not sure why though. Maybe a hidden bug.
    • Album art will need to be extracted by Rygel now, as Tracker no longer does this.
• Apps working on systems without Tracker3
  • Apps will need to check they're running in a flatpak, and prefer a domain-specific Tracker instance instead of the system-wide one.
  • This means they will need to install a domain rule
  • Sam to prototype this with gnome-music

• IndexFile

  • For 2.99.3, we should have all the sandboxing in place.

  • We need further improvements to IndexFile for gnome-photos, Sam will look at this

• Media art
  • Gnome Music startup times are affected by having to calculate album art filenames for everything
  • Could we store this in the database? Yes, but it'd increase the size.
  • Could we add a sparql function to do this? Maybe.
• GUADEC talk:
  • We are speaking at GUADEC!
    • Talk should be non-technical, aimed at desktop users and app authors to promote tracker3
    • Focus on improvements to sandboxing (for everyone), improvements in how Tracker works with Flatpak (for app developers), and improvements to CLI (for 'power users'),
• CLI improvements

  • We want to improve user docs (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/-/issues/97)

    • The man pages of the CLI should cover most of this.
  • We have various ideas for improvements to CLI for tracker3:

    • tracker list alias for tracker search --files

    • Command to list extraction failures

    • tracker index better error reporting

    • SPARQL shell

    • bash completion improvement so you can tab-complete D-Bus names in the tracker3 --dbus-service arg

    • setting a pager, as many commands (systemctl for example) already do

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