Is beagle completely dead now?

[Johannes Rohr <jorohr gmail com>]

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