Local data management?

[pemal...@porcupinefactory.org]

Hi folks,

I've had perkeep on my list for a long time, but only now got myself to watch the presentation you have on the web page. I have to say it's quite brilliant in how well it answered the questions I had about its purpose and architecture.

The questions I had are regarding its usefulness for storing local data. Actually, all local data. I'm sick of hierarchical file systems, and I'm ready to take a plunge into the unexplored, and by that I mean database/semantic. Perkeep seems to be built on exactly the layers I want, even though the upper layers are mostly concerned in bringing in data from other people's computers, whereas I am concerned with all that I deal with locally.

But not *all* my questions have been answered yet. Some are about the architecture, some are about whether anyone already tried doing the work. Let me share:

1. Does Perkeep have a way to notify consumers that the results of a query they are interested in have changed? If I'm replacing folders with queries, I want to see their updates in real-time.
2. Did anyone try adding native toolkit support for the file dialog to save directly to Perkeep without FUSE?
3. Is it easy to build extra schemas on top of what Perkeep offers now? Some stuff that I find are missing are: where does a file come from (who sent it, or where it was downloaded, or what input files were used), or indirection in storing the actual data (I want data to stay on my NAS, but I want to query its metadata).
4. Were there any attempts to add importers for local GPX files, (raw) photos, text documents, web sites, emails?
5. Is development happening on the mailing list? The IRC channel looks dead (I tried Libera).
6. Is Perkeep a Google project? I'm seeing a call to sign the CLA on the website, but things got merged without it too, and I'm confused.

Cheers,
dcz