Today is the second anniversary of Beagle’s release to the world, and what better way to celebrate than with a release? Beagle 0.2.6 is out.
Now that Mono 1.1.13.5 — which has the fix for the leak I previously blogged about — has been out for a while, I decided it was time to back out my buggy workaround and just require it. It’s ironic that the workaround, when it failed, would cause Beagle to try to allocate huge swaths of memory. This release also fixes some problems when the beagle-crawl-system cronjob would stop working because some versions of su are finicky about the order of their command-line arguments, and the mysterious case of why some documents wouldn’t open when clicked on in beagle-search. (Turns out, it wouldn’t launch things from shell scripts.)
As I mentioned in the release announcement, Beagle wouldn’t be where it is today without the help of over 100 people who have supported and contributed to it over the past two years. I’d like to recognize those people in this undoubtedly incomplete list:
Jon Trowbridge, Nat Friedman, Miguel de Icaza and the Mono team, Daniel Drake, Fredrik Hedberg, Lukas Lipka, Debajyoti Bera, Veerapuram Varadhan, Dan Winship, Robert Love, Chris Lahey, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Ben Maurer, Brandon Hale, JP Rosevear, Luis Villa, Dave Camp, Joe Gasiorek, Anders Carlsson, Mikael Hallendal and Imendio, Rafael Slinckx, Larry Ewing, Alex Graveley, Christopher Orr, Jim Krehl, Garrett LeSage, Jakub Steiner, Vijay K. Nanjundaswamy, Adam Lofts, Adam Weinberger, Alexander Macdonald, Alexander Shopov, Amanpreet Singh Alam, Anthony Batchelor, Arangel Angov, Boris Peterbarg, Carl-Emil Lagerstedt, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Chris Schneider, Christian Laireiter, Christian Persch, Christian Rose, Christophe Merlet, Christopher Aillon, Clytie Siddall, Damodharan R, Daniel Naber, Daniel Nylander, David Richards, Dennis Cranston, Dennis Snell, Edward Cho, Enver Altin, Francisco Javier Fernandez, Frank Arnold, Funda Wang, Gabor Kelemen, Garrett Smith, Gary Ekker, Harish Krishnaswamy, Hendrik Brandt, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Ilkka Tuohela, Ivan Stojmirov, Jack Miller, Jakub Friedl, Jakub Steiner, James Ogley, James Vipond, Jean-Yves Lefort, Jonas Klingstedt, Jordi Mas i Hernandez, Josep Puigdemont, Joshua Nichols, Kang Jeong-Hee, Kevin Breit, Kevin Kubasik, Kjartan Maraas, Kostas Papadimas, Krzysztof Rosiński, Kwok-Koon Cheung, Kyle Ambroff, LaMont Jones, Larry Reaves, Lasse Bang Mikkelsen, Leonid Kanter, Lluís Pàmies, Luca Ferretti, Marijn Ros, Mario Manno, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Matthew Garrett, Max Wiehle, Maxim Dziumanenko, Michael Dominic K, Michal Kastelik, Miguel Cabrera, Nagappan Alagappan, Nicolas Trangez, Nikos Charonitakis, Øivind Hoel, Pat Double, Paul Betts, Raja R Harinath, Raphael Higino, Richard Dawe, Rich Midwinter, Robert Van Gorkom, Robinson Rodrigo Maure, Rodrigo Marcos Fombellida, Rodrigo Moya, Rodrigo Sancho Senosiain, Rostislav Raykov, Ryan Skadberg, Saravana Prabhu, Shobith Alva, Sivaiah Nallagatla, Sreekanth G, Srinivasa Ragavan, Stanislav Brabec, Stephen Solka, Subodh Soni, Sylvain Goletto, Takeshi Aihana, Terance Edward Sola, Tino Meinen, Todd Berman, Tom von Schwerdtner, Urko Fernandez, Uwe Hermann, Vaclav Slavik, Vincent van Adrighem, Vishravars Ramasubramanian, Vladimer Sichinava, Vladimir Petkov, Wojciech Polak, Wouter Bolsterlee, Yair Hershkovitz, Young-Ho Cha, Zafar, Žygimantas Beručka, Арангел Ангов
… as well as anyone I may have accidentally missed. Thanks! You’ve helped make Beagle the premier desktop search on Linux.
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Beagle Turns 2…
Beagle Desktop Search for Linux has turned 2 (and coincidentally, 2.6 at the same time ) I noticed Joe Shaw's post about this, and about the over 100 people who have helped out. I thought that was exciting and impressive, hopefully after th…
Beagle Turns 2…
Beagle Desktop Search for Linux has turned 2 (and coincidentally, 2.6 at the same time ) I noticed Joe Shaw's post about this, and about the over 100 people who have helped out. I thought that was exciting and impressive, hopefully after th…
[...] The thing that is really impressive about this — which I didn’t really realize until JP pointed it out to me yesterday — is that this really only took a few days and a little over 1000 lines of code to do. And if I may toot the horn of the Beagle development community past and present, this is a strong testament to the superior quality in Beagle’s design. [...]
[...] First, Jamie tries to position himself as David to Novell’s Goliath. Well, guess what? Novell employs exactly one person to work on Beagle. Me. The rest of the contributions — code, wiki updates, documentation, translations, bug reports — come from a community of volunteers much larger than “little me”. In fact, last year around this time I thanked over one hundred people by name who had contributed at that time. Yes, Novell has a vested interest in the project, and yes, you can say that is why SUSE-based distributions ship it. But Novell’s massive corporate pressure isn’t the reason why it’s shipped in Fedora, in Ubuntu, in Debian, in Gentoo, in Mandriva, in Foresight, in Arch Linux, in Linux Mint, and on and on. Stop spreading FUD. [...]