Re: Ending work on snowball

The website, including the SVN repository, won't be going away in the near
future - we'll just stop making changes to them.

The code (and source code for the website) is already automatically
mirrored to github: https://github.com/snowballstem

On 16 September 2014 14:31, Florian Brucker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Martin,
>
> I can see how this is the most reasonable step for Richard and you --
> let me take this opportunity to thank you both for your great work!
>
> Do you have plans of keeping the source code available on the web? AFAIK
> you currently have your own SVN repository which you'll probably don't
> want to maintain once you shut down the website. May I suggest to host
> the code on a public repository service like GitHub or Bitbucket? That
> way, people interested in further development would have an easy start.
>
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
> On 16.09.2014 12:01, Martin Porter wrote:
> > Dear snowball-discuss subscribers,
> >
> > After due discussion, Richard Boulton and I have decided to bring
> > further active work on the snowball website to a close. Richard is now
> > very fully occupied in demanding employment, while I am effectively
> > retired (my 70th birthday was two months ago), and very unlikely to
> > produce any new stemmers in the future. If anyone is actively engaged
> > on snowball work with the expectation of its future inclusion on the
> > snowball site, they should contact us about this now.
> >
> > The snowball website itself will of course be left untouched, after
> > the updates with the necessary announcements of this change, and will
> > continue to exist for the indefinite future.
> >
> > The mailing list will be kept running for the next few months, at
> > least. We expect to close it down at the beginning of 2015.
> >
> > My private email address ([email protected]) will still be open for
> > questions about snowball, of course, and I will endeavour to answer
> > them all, as I have always done for the many non-snowball emails I
> > receive about the Porter stemmer.
> >
> > Martin
> >
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