Tracker BoF

See the hacking/BoF days page for time and location information.

Etherpad: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/tracker-2018

Subject

Topics related to the Tracker project, including:

• review of open bugs and merge requests
• strategies for running private Tracker instances
• improving the test suite

• reduce the need to reset the database (some background)

• how to migrate, backup/restore, etc. user-entered metadata like albums

  • see: Design/Apps/Photos/Storage

• indexing issues: how to get proper info and debug information?

• musicbrainz tags integration

• audio writeback integration. This is necessary to directly edit song tags from Music. See those 2 patches: 1 and 2

• versioning: query Tracker version to know which queries are supported. See this issue in Music.

Audience

• Developers of apps that use Tracker, e.g. the GNOME Content apps
• Anyone else who wants to get involved

Organizers

• SamThursfield

• CarlosGarnacho

Participants

People who are planning on or are expected to attend:

• SamThursfield

• CarlosGarnacho

• DebarshiRay

• JeanFelder

• ...

Blog Posts

Blog posts about the session:

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