Author: Felipe Borges

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#GSoC Report III

Hey, it’s been almost two weeks since my last report, but I’m still here working. I am [finally] free of my university exams, i. e., GSoC is my new full-time occupation. 🙂

In my last report, I described a method that I was working on which adds a mount point easily to the tracker store. It’s now finished!

So I’m now working on tying this method up to the DBus name of the calling application. I’m getting familiar with DBus and this code will be available ASAP on my tracker repository on GitHub.

Cheers,

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#GSoC Report II

Hello everyone!

I’m a little late on my report, but [finally] it’s here now. It’s been hard to conciliate college and GSoC but I’m making good progress on my task.

As I told you before, my first task is to make Tracker capable of indexing files on removable devices on an application basis (on demand). It means making the Tracker API easily capable of receiving calls from applications to index a given device.

Currently, Tracker uses a GSettings key to flag whether or not removable devices and optical discs should be indexed. In these first 3 weeks I’ve worked on a mechanism to escape the strict duality dictated by these GSettings keys.

I’m working on building a method for tracker-miner-fs which receives a GMount object as a parameter, adds this GMount to the Tracker Store, and call the indexer to perform its job.

The next step is to tie these mechanisms up to the DBus name of the calling application in order to finally make it work on an application basis (on demand).

You can hit me anytime on IRC. Let me know if you have doubts/questions/suggestions.

bye!

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#GSoC: Community Bonding period

This period between the accepted students announcement and the hands-on part of GSoC is called the ‘Community Bonding period’. It’s when students meet their mentors/community, and read documentation. I have met the awesome Cosimo Cecchi, who’s guiding me in the project. I also have contacted the Tracker community.

My first impressions were great. Everything about Tracker (and GNOME libraries in general) is pretty well documented.

In addition to that, I had my blog added to Planet GNOME. I’m glad to be in this planet after so many years reading it daily.

From now on, the Coding period has started. So it’s time to jump straight into coding. Unfortunately it’s not summer in Brazil, so I have classes to attend and exams to take, all this occurring simultaneously with the Google Summer of Code. Fortunately, I have scheduled my classes accordingly so that I have some extra free time to work on GSoC.

In this first half of the coding period you’ll see my work on Tracker. And in the second half, you’ll see my work directly on Documents. I’d love hear your feedback, comments, suggestions, ideas… anything, really.

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Hello Planet GNOME!

Yay! I am on Planet GNOME!!

Hi everyone! I’m a 20 years old Brazilian student at UFPel studying Computer Science. For the first time I’ve been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program.

This summer, I will be working with my mentor Cosimo Cecchi on Documents in order to make it able to manage and view files on plugged in removable devices. To accomplish that, I’m also going to work on Tracker.

I will keep you updated about my progress. Stay tuned. Same bat-hour, same bat-blog. 🙂

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#GSoC: Warm Winter!

It is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but it is going to be warm because my GSoC proposal was accepted.

I am going to work on Documents in order to make it able to manage and view files on plugged in removable devices. This is a feature proposed by Cosimo Cecchi, who is my mentor in the program.

In this blog I am going to log my progress weekly. Keep tuned for updates here!

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Hello world!

That’s the third time I try to start a blog. Usually, it used to get exciting at the beginning but after some time it got outdated since I was not able to blog regularly. Besides, Twitter has made me a bad blogger.

Anyway, now I want to give some love to my blog and to update it regularly (weekly seems good). I hope you enjoy your visits here! 🙂