[referencer] Anyone interested in maintaining referencer?

[Andreas Dalsgaard]

Hi Michele,

regarding your feature requests we'll look into the improved search
ability. The feature request "tags as gmail labels" could be
interesting and we would surely be interested in patches!

Best regards Andreas Dalsgaard

On 5 June 2010 12:38, Michele Mattioni <mattions at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm an happy and old user of Referencer.
>
> I saw there is an interest to continue the development.
>
> I would like to suggest two features that I'm missing from Referencer
> to have the best program to manage papers.
>
> 1) Tags as gmail labels:
>
> Gmail labels are great, because you can stack them together, each one
> with its own background and color to make them quickly recognisable
> and have a quick access to the paper you looking for
> More over the possibility to add them with a simple drag and drop is
> very friendly from user point of view.
>
> I don't know what you intend with hierarchical tags. However, if it's
> to treat tags as folders in a file system I think is not the most
> useful approach giving the fact it can be tricky to develop a proper
> hierarchy of the tags.
>
> Consider this scenario:
> tags: to_read, calcium_activation, reviews, morphology
>
> It's clear that the to_read tag is a functional one and can be applied
> to all the articles, while the other three are intrinsic attribute of
> the article itself. More over there is not stop holder to have a
> review which is about the morphology of the cell, so this two can go
> together. So in this case, if we use the filesystem approach we need
> to create the to_read parent and then the calcium_activation and
> morphology as children and finally the review has a children of both
> the calcium_activation and the morphology tag, ending up with two
> review tags!
>
> This is a lot overhead with only just 4 tags, which can lead to a
> dramatic combinatorial increase of tags if we increase the number of
> tags. The other, approach, having the tags as a list of attribute for
> file will leave the possibility to use them in an easy way.
>
> 2) Improve the search ability:
> Full text search, author search and journal search should be available.
>
> This are  my two cents and feature I would like to have in referencer.
> Unfortunately C++ is not my cup of tea, co I can't really be useful in
> developing, but I can be involved in beta testing from the bleeding
> edge.
>
> Thanks to have read so far, it was a long one!
>
> Best,
> Michele.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Dalsgaard
> <andreas.dalsgaard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In response to the inquiry for a maintainer to Referencer, a friend of
>> mine and I would like to volunteer for co-maintainership, or what
>> would fit best. We wrote a mail to John this Sunday but he seems to be
>> busy. Since we have become aware that at least one other person is
>> working on referencer* we have decided to send this mail to the list.
>>
>> We both have a background in computer science and have used Referencer
>> extensively and expect to continue to use Referencer in our current
>> work in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg
>> University(Denmark).
>>
>> To familiarise ourself with the code we have have made a few patches:
>>  * Fix some simple bugs ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/referencer/+bug/581811 )
>>  * Scrolling to the current selection, when visibility changes.
>>  * Moved author string to same line as year in icon-view
>>  * Enhance the genkey plugin with title and first word of title
>>  * Start port to GIO/Gvfs
>>  * Do not store filename attribute to get clean diff's when storing
>> the referencer file in a repository.
>>
>> If anyone is interested, you can checkout our hg branch (with most of
>> the patches) at http://diverse.smartere.dk:8000/
>>
>> Our future plans is to add the following features:
>>  * Better support for more reflibs, e.g. drag-and-drop between windows
>>  * Better support for collaborating, e.g. fancy Telepathy collaboration
>>  * Hierarchial tags
>>
>> Depending upon what other peoples plans are we have talked about
>> moving the source repository to bzr in launchpad, as we are more
>> familiar with bzr than hg and bugs and translations are already there.
>> This would also allow us to easily create a PPA.
>>
>> Best regards Mads Chr. Olesen and Andreas E. Dalsgaard
>>
>> *http://github.com/adamplumb/referencer/commits/master/
>>
>> On 26 February 2010 11:44, John Spray <jcspray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Lately I have not had time to deal with any issues around referencer.  This
>>> is unlikely to change in the near future, so if anyone is interested in
>>> stepping in to maintain the software, please contact me.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
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