I don’t decide about Tracker‘s release. The team of course does.
But when you look at our roadmap you notice one remaining ‘big feature’. That’s coping with modest ontology changes.
Right now if we’d make even a small ontology change all of our users would have to recreate their databases. We also don’t support restoring a backup of your metadata over a modified ontology.
This is about to change. This week I started working in a branch on supporting class and property ontology additions.
I finished it today and it appears to be working. The patches obviously need a thorough review by the other team members, and then testing of course. I invite all the contributors and people who have been testing Tracker 0.7’s releases to tryout the branch. It only supports additions, so don’t try to change properties or classes, or remove them. You can only add new ones. You might have noticed the nao:deprecated property in the ontology files? That’s what we do with deleted properties.
Anyway
Meanwhile are Martyn and Carlos working on a bugfix in the miner about duplicate entries for file resources and on a timeout for the extractor so that extraction of large or complicated documents doesn’t block the entire filesystem miner.
Jürg is working on timezone storage for xsd:dateTime fields and last few days he implemented limited support for named graphs.
By the looks of it, one would almost believe that Tracker’s first new stable release is almost ready!