Re: Gnome Journal Article and General Beagle Publicity

[Ken VanDine <ken vandine org>]

Is there an estimate for the 0.3 release?

--Ken

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 19:56 -0500, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
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> Ken VanDine wrote:
> > I think this is a good idea.  It has been a while since I made time to
> > write an article for GJ.  I would be willing to work on this if someone
> > can help come up with all the points we want covered.
> I'll try to dig up some of Joe's more recent e-mails which cover some
> really good ones. Also, the release announcements tend to have some
> great info on beagles progress.
> 
> > 
> > We could even use this as a means to let distros know beagle is ready to
> > be included and why they should want to include it.  I personally think
> > there are some really good reasons, considering I have been shipping
> > beagle in Foresight for well over a year now.  The great news is for
> > quite a while now there haven't been any users asking "What is this
> > beagled thing and why does it use all my memory?".
> Especially with the most recent release, and the upcoming changes, which
> is why I think its worth talking about. Using some of the practice
> mentioned here:
> http://beagle-project.org/Thunderbird
> I run beagle (with the thunderbird backend and about 10.000 mails) at
> about 45 MB resident for the master process and
> Debug: Helper Size: VmRSS=34.2 MB, size=3.55, 63.7
> its not perfect, but its certainly far more passive then before, and
> without the tbird backend, its significantly better.
> 
> I'm glad theres some interest, also, we don't hear a lot from  Forsight
> and your wants/needs. Please feel free to pass on things you would like
> to see in beagle, we always love the input :)
> 
> - -Kevin Kubasik
> > 
> > --Ken
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 19:30 -0500, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
> > Ok, I just saw some recent talk about the Gnome Journal and upcoming
> > publications. I was thinking, we have some big stuff coming up,
> > primarily, that beagle is getting into the memory usage range where we
> > can/could seriously consider it as a default for a lot of
> > distributions/setups. (I'm thinking especially once Joe's work with the
> > unified indexies finishes, and if my work with the thunderbird backend
> > starts to show some results) Maybe we should consider writing a serious
> > 'Why beagle can work for you' type document. We could get it published
> > in GJ and a couple other places, and get beagle in the next major round
> > of distro releases (SLED, Feisty, etc). If we also got the SoC stuff
> > integrated at this point that would be a great addition.
> > 
> > Anyways, I'm more just throwing some ideas out there, maybe we
> > could/should set a nice revived roadmap/benchmark of what we want for
> > maybe a 0.3 release? And make the 0.3 the flagship release for a renewed
> > beagle push? Just a thought, please weight in with your thoughts/comments.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin Kubasik
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