I don't think anybody is actively working on beagle, but I wouldn't call it dead. It's still used by many people, and we're at least keeping it runnable -- eg we had an update to adapt to new Mono.Sqlite APIs upstream. Feel free to work on it!
Gabriel On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Johannes Rohr <jor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear beagle hackers, > > since the mailing list is inactive I fear that beagle is now ultimately > abandoned. Is this the case? If so, this really makes me sad. > > I have been using beagle daily for a number of years and I still find that > there is no better desktop search available on Linux. > > Tracker is a disappointment. It supports very few data sources, is a cpu and > memory hog, it is buggy, and its search results are very poor in quality, > and I don't really see it making progress either. > > I got so used to beagle for quickly finding e-mail and files that I was > saddened to see that Debian completely removed it from the archives, because > development has stopped. Isn't there anyone anywhere willing to take over? > There has been so much effort invested into beagle. In the end it was really > stable, reliable and usable, that just letting it rot is such a wasteful > thing to do... > > Thanks, > > Johannes > _______________________________________________ > dashboard-hackers mailing list > dashboard-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > _______________________________________________ dashboard-hackers mailing list dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers