Hi @peakd & @good-karma, I believe the benefit–cost ratio is good for the open search engine proposal, you have our vote!
In terms of the proposal itself or any proposal really I think there's value in reporting total estimated project cost. 182 days x 45 HBD = apx $8,000.
Perhaps this proposal is stalled because Good-Karma already has an actively funded project, or perhaps open search is too niche to blogging as a Hive use case when there's other areas that may ultimately add more value to the platform long term. Regardless, I believe this proposal is good value. 👊
Initial development was funded by us right, but we put further development on halt due to funding concerns and wanted product to be used fully by every app on Hive. Further improvements and covering maintenance cost is smaller, I hope stake holders will see value in having better search results and improvement into this protocol.
I hope so too, definitely a protocol that deserves to be refined imo. kudo's for planning to open source it..