Dusting off the blog
16/04/2010
«Tanto tiempo», as they say in Chile (and probably in a lot of other Spanish-speaking countries)… My work on Tracker having been mostly “underground” (nothing released), I didn’t get to blog much. However, we’re beginning parts of my work merged, so that’s great news!
If you’ve not been living under a rock (or in a cave) for last few weeks, you might have heard that Tracker 0.8 was released. While the 0.7 releases had been usable for some time now, a stable release really marks a milestone. And guess what, it includes the TrackerMinerWeb class! For the user, that doesn’t mean anything. For the developer, it means writing miners using web services is a bit easier.
I’ve been toying with MeegoTouch (formerly called Dui) lastly, as you can see here. This short video shows a maemo interface commanding the Flickr miner, and associating it with the website. The Flickr miner itself is not merged yet, although I hope to merge it soon. Meanwhile, you can check the miner-web-review branch on tracker’s git repo. The documentation on how to manually associate the miner with Flickr is on Gnome Live. Hopefully we’ll see a Gnome interface soon, if you want to scratch that itch ping abustany on #tracker 🙂
On another front, libtracker-client recently added the possibility to connect the writeback signal. That means it’s now much easier to write miners that not only mine (download) data, but that can also synchronize information the other way (from local to remote). And guess what? The Flickr miner does just that. When you tag a photo with Tracker, it’ll replicate the data on Flickr. It’s that simple.
And on another another front, my talk “Is your Gnome connected?” has been accepted for GUADEC! So if you want to learn more about a connected Tracker, you know where to go 🙂