Re: [Tracker] Is tracker development dead?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 10:31 +0100, Neil Jagdish Patel wrote:
> 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.


Hi Neil,

Glad to see you are coming more active - no need to explain the
difficulties as we all experience them at some point. No one is paid to
work fulltime on your stuff or tracker so there will inevitably be
periods when less gets done but a project is not dead unless no commits
have been done in the last 6-12 months which is not the case here.

The one thing I would love to incorporate into 0.6 is the tracker-tag
cloud widget - perhaps you could send me the source (if its broken I can
work on it if you dont have the time)

look forward to seeing you at Guadec...

jamie