[Nepomuk] [RFC] File Indexers

[Ignacio Serantes]

Hi,

I'm thinking in writing a extractor for epub and maybe fb2 formats so this
mail fits with my intentions.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> wrote:

> Hey everyone
>
> As your guys might remember, we moved away from Strigi for the 4.10
> release. Our solution however, still does not support any document formats
> apart from PDF. We need to change that and support other formats. There are
> 2 possible ways to go about this -
>
> 1. We use Okular which supports a number of popular formats
> 2. We write our own indexers by using the relevant library.
>
> (1) would lead to yet another abstraction, and someone will need to split
> the Okular code base. Currently the core parts are quite entangled with the
> ui parts. I've looked over their code and it doesn't seem like a small task.
>
> (2) would require us to write a large number of extractors. I was thinking
> of organizing some kind of online sprint in order to do this. Writing an
> extractor is very simple, and I have been getting a large number of
> requests of people interested in Nepomuk. This might be a nice way to get
> them started. (Though we do have tasks + juniors as well). Maybe I could
> organize something over irc where we make everyone compile nepomuk (People
> seem to be struggling with this), and write a simple extractor plugin.
>
> The advantage of (2) is that it might require a lot of hand holding, but
> it would be better in the long run, specially since we might get some
> contributors out of it. (1) would require someone experienced to work with
> the Okular team.
>
> Any comments? Opinions?
>
>
> --
> Vishesh Handa
>
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Best wishes,
Ignacio
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