Hello,
I honestly have got a bit lost about docs for search in GNOME – my volunteer time has been spent on QA stuff recently so my contributions around search are minimal at best.
TinySPARQL is a database library, i don’t think it ever had its own FAQ. All the docs we have for that are accessible via https://tinysparql.org.
In the old days of “Tracker” and “Tracker Miners”, we didn’t have such a clear separation between the database code and the filesystem indexer. At one point in 2020 or so I made a “Tracker website”, which lived in tracker.git (now tinysparql.git) and did have an FAQ. None of the content was relevant to the database library, though – it was all about the filesystem indexer and about desktop search in GNOME.
I’m not sure what happened to that FAQ – the “Tracker website” that I set up was later replaced by https://tracker.gnome.org/, which confusingly is now a website about TinySPARQL. I’m not sure how that happened or what we should do with https://tracker.gnome.org – do you have any ideas? (I do know that the website repo for tracker.gnome.org is here, at least).
The project has some open issues related this as well:
- update homepage? (#466) · Issues · GNOME / TinySPARQL · GitLab
- Tentative rename roadmap (#346) · Issues · GNOME / LocalSearch · GitLab
Finally, the old FAQ can be found in the tinysparql.git history around the 3.3.0 tag:
Paging @carlosg and @jimmac who might be able to give you more of a useful update 