Re: DISCUSS: Beagle Status-Quo

[Erik Bågfors <erik bagfors nu>]

Hi

I just had to add a few things to this.

In opensource software development a lot of times people aim very very
high. Of course we want the coolest desktop search tool available on any
platform. However, google desktop, MSN desktop search, tiger-os,
copernic and X1 are all here now or VERY soon.  The quality might not
always be the best but it sure is better than before (when none of them
existed).

Therefore I think it's very important to get a release version of beagle
out ASAP.  Just delay most of the cool features and get it out so that
the next generation of distributions can include it.

I really really like gnome's date-based release schedule (it's one of
the things that makes me use ubuntu :) ) and would love to see beagle
follow the same path soon.

Regards,
Erik


On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:18 +0000, Srikant Jakilinki wrote:
> Hiya Guys,
>       As you might be aware, MSN desktop search has also been released 
> recently. And Yahoo will be in the space not before long. Tiger-OS is 
> just round the corner. Copernic is having a good following. X1 seems to 
> be gaining a foothold etc. It is getting quite heated and it is exciting 
> out there. Can I then just ask all of you (the core members 
> specifically) a silly question as to how see and how we intend to make 
> Beagle different and better from any of these?
> 
> 1) First of all, me thinks they are good baselines to compare ourselves 
> to and since we are still developing we can take the good points from 
> each and leave out the bad ones. And of course we can always borrow from 
> good research and cool ideas that we all have (like that of metadata 
> attachments or resonant small-world network building). So, please join 
> the discussion and let everyone know your thoughts on this. I will put 
> this post in the Wiki too if that makes it easier.
> 
> 2) Of course, we are not competing or anything like that but purely from 
> a technology and end-user viewpoint, we should ensure that Beagle is 
> right up there and better to search our computers than any of these. My 
> suspicion is that unless Linux has such robust, integrated search tools, 
>    plans to invade the desktop market will be cut short. Total search is 
> too important a functionality and opportunity to be missed and once 
> users get addicted to that, any migration to another computing platform 
> will be made much harder.
> 
> 3) I have attached a slide from Yahoo press release. We could work on 
> such a thing. I can compile the list and put them in a tabular and 
> graphical modality if desired. As one can guess, I am into such research 
> as part of my PhD (too sad that I cannot publish yet as per funding 
> rules) and hence could do with a little bit of community thought on this
> 
> ----
> Regards-Cheers-Sincerely,
> Srikant
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