Re: [Gaim-cabal] Re: SoC 2006 project ideas

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

SoC has launched. Mentors can sign up at
http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html

-s.

On 4/14/06, Richard Laager <rl...@wi...> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:50 -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> > How many projects do we want to take on? Last summer we had 5 mentors
> > with about 3 students each. I think 3 was a good number. Who's
> > interested in mentoring?
>
> I'm interested in mentoring.
>
> As a project suggestion... Log Management (and Searching)
>
> I recently installed Beagle, a desktop search engine for GNOME. Among
> other things, they index Gaim logs. Our log searching currently has a
> number of flaws and users have asked for more features with "log
> management". I was thinking it might be nice to overhaul the log
> searching/management in Gaim.
>
> >From a technical standpoint, I'm imagining an architecture that would
> offload some of the searching functions to the loggers themselves. This
> way, if someone (my co-worker is a little interested in doing it) writes
> a SQL logger, we could offload the text searching to the database,
> rather than pulling all of the text across the network and searching it
> ourselves (which is what would happen now).
>
> Additionally then, we could have a (possibly auto-loading?) plugin that
> would use libbeagle when it's available. In this way, users with Beagle
> would get faster searching and possibly more features. If you didn't
> have Beagle installed, we could fall back to searching the files
> ourselves.
>
> Richard
>
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