Re: [Tracker] Is tracker development dead?

[Neil Jagdish Patel <neiljpatel yahoo co uk>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:48 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Well if google desktop supports more formats than the released version
> of tracker (0.5.4 I believe) does then they have already won in the
> eyes of most users. Whether you consider them competition or not when
> they give a better user experience is a moot point.
>
> I am fully capable of building and using a svn copy of tracker, but
> that does not mean other people are quite that proficient. Getting a
> release of tracker out would give the Ubuntu team plenty of time to
> package and put tracker in their repositories. You are missing out on
> tons of useful debugging and comments by waiting so long to make a new
> release. Hopefully your father and personal life are doing better by
> now.

I can't speak for Jamie, but I am sure he knows the benefits of 'release
early release often'. However, with a project as complex as this, and
one which is under so much scrutiny from the other gnome devs, you have
to make sure that everything is rock-solid before a release.

> Also, have you been working any with njpatel? He has some really good
> ideas that shouldn't be overlooked. Some of his projects like the
> tracker integration into nautilus and affinity are fascinating.

He hasn't, and through no fault of his own. I haven't been able to spend
as much time on Tracker as I had before (due to starting the a job and,
more importantly, due to some family problems). I have only been getting
back to into the swing of things from a few weeks ago, and will
hopefully be contributing code again very soon.

Kind regards,

Neil J. Patel