future of beagle

[Brian J. Murrell]

I've been getting the impression over the last little while that
beagle's future is in question.

One thing in particular is that the evolution backend does not work
since the sqlite3 folder migration of evolution 2.24.0.  Additionally, I
don't think anything has been done about this, is this true?

b.



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[D Bera]

> I've been getting the impression over the last little while that
> beagle's future is in question.

Sad yet true. I emailed the list a few weeks ago asking if anyone is
interesting in helping with development/maintaining ... no response
yet.

> One thing in particular is that the evolution backend does not work
> since the sqlite3 folder migration of evolution 2.24.0.  Additionally, I
> don't think anything has been done about this, is this true?

No sir. This is partly true due to lack of resources and partly due to
... I believe there is some discussion in the evo-list about the
proper way indexing engines should access evolution data from its
storage. Seems like it is more than a simple patching of the existing
backend. This would require some knowledge and familiarity with
evolution ... apart from my time, I also lack any familiarity with
evolution - hence I have not dared to look into this problem yet.

If no one is interested in helping on this, evolution support in
beagle will soon be a thing of the past.

- dBera

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[Arun Raghavan-2]

2009/3/3 D Bera <dbera.web@...>:

> No sir. This is partly true due to lack of resources and partly due to
> ... I believe there is some discussion in the evo-list about the
> proper way indexing engines should access evolution data from its
> storage. Seems like it is more than a simple patching of the existing
> backend. This would require some knowledge and familiarity with
> evolution ... apart from my time, I also lack any familiarity with
> evolution - hence I have not dared to look into this problem yet.
>
> If no one is interested in helping on this, evolution support in
> beagle will soon be a thing of the past.

I haven't been able to look into this either. For those who are
interested, Philip van Hoof has been working on a DBus interface for
metadata extraction from Evolution. Details here:

http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadata

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