Re: [Tracker] Is tracker development dead?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 09:05 -0400, Todd Slater wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed gmail com> wrote:
> > Several months ago, jaime wrote a blog posting showing the new
> > interface for tracker and showing how much better it was. This post
> > was in Feb and is here: http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/6588.html.
> >
> > In that same blog posting dated Feb 13, 2007, jaime stated, "Expect a
> > release some time this week as I iron out the few remaining
> > bugs/issues. ". Since it is June 28th and there is still not a tracker
> > 0.6 release... are we to assume that tracker development is dead?
>
> Why not check out the latest from svn? I just built it yesterday.
>
> > If not, make a bloody release. Follow the release early, release often
> > mantra. Has beagle trumped tracker so much as to have you call it
> > quits?
> >
> > This isn't a flame but I'm curious to know why there has not been a
> > release or even a peep from anyone about tracker. The only person who
> > has said anything is njpatel demoing his awesome work like affinity
> > built ontop of tracker.
>
> I've been lurking on this list and while I wouldn't say there's been
> ton of action, to say there hasn't been "even a peep" hardly seems
> accurate, either: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/
>
> > Right now, beagle seems to be the way to go for a user trying to index
> > and search their documents. Am I wrong?
>
> Only you know your requirements. But, google just released its desktop
> search for linux. See also
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/desktop_search_tools_gnu_linux_tracker_recoll_strigi_deskbar


the google one is not open source (so will not be shipped by open source
distros), lacks desktop integration and has no tagging/extensible
metadata so I dont think its a stright swap for tracker yet. (it has no
Evo support either nor XESAM support)

If you use a lot of google stuff like gmail and google office then
google desktop indeed makes more sense compared to beagle/tracker.


jamie.