[XESAM] Minutes of meeting 2007-05-15

[Fabrice Colin]

On 5/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> MEETING:
>  * It was proposed that we had a platform independent libxesam with the core
> non-dbus related utilities such as query parsing and query construction. It
> was the general consensus that the time wasn't right. It might be good to
> have one, but we should wait and reconsider this when the spec was set was
> more mature. Toolkit specific libs abstracting away dbus and other evils
> should be provided at some point though.
>
Agreed. I don't see this as a must-have.

>  * We reopened the services/types/categories debate, and quickly settled on
> the name categories to avoid confusing the word "type" from field types.
> Example categories are Video, Audio, Email, Contacts, etc.
>
Did you guys come up with a full list ?

>  * It was brought up again whether this category system should be
> independent or dependent on the field definitions. Again we where split in
> two camps. Strigi/Nepomuk arguing that the fields should be able to only be
> defined on certain cats, and Mikkel/jamie on the other side arguing for
> simplicity of the spec.
>
I think it should be dependent on the field definitions. For instance,
it doesn't
make sense to set Audio.Composer on something that's been categorized
as Email.

Fabrice