Re: Pessimism

On Sun, 16 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:43:50 +1000
> From: Lachlan Andrew <[email protected]>
> To: Joe R. Jah <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Pessimism
> 
> Greetings Joe,
> 
> Thanks for your reply, and don't let my mood swings concern you too 
> much :)
> 
> No, it isn't just the indexing speed, although that is part of it.  
> Mainly, there don't seem to be enough people working on the package 
> (coding, documentation).  I'm not meaning to denigrate the great job 
> that other people are doing in providing support (your patch 
> repository, Jim's and others' answering of users' questions, Robert's 
> packaging for Debian), but I feel overwhelmed by the amount of 
> development needed to get 3.2.0 out.
> 
> Recently, I looked at the web sites listed in our "users" database, 
> and found that about half had switched to google.  There are lots of 
> other free search engines out there, and it's not clear to me that 
> ht://Dig can (or should) compete.  One of the big problems with free 
> software is that we spend all of our time duplicating effort. (If 
> developers of OpenOffice.org, Koffice and the Gnome office suite 
> combined their resources, they may be able to make a good competitor 
> for MS Office, but divided they can't, IMHO.)
> 
> I'm perfectly happy to keep working on ht://Dig, but I am by nature a 
> follower, and the project needs (among other things) a leader.  If 
> someone comes along and brings some enthusiasm, that will be great.
> That person need not be a programmer -- if someone wants to document 
> all the new features that 3.2.0 has compared with 3.1.6, that would 
> also be very inspiring.
> 
> $0.02
> 
> Lachlan

I believe we need a meeting of htdig-members.

Regards,

Joe
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> > On Thu, 13 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> > >
> > > My impression is that the ht://Dig project is basically dead :( 
> > > The existing code is of course still functional
> >
> > You have been a great bulwark for htdig, specially recently.  You
> > have brought 3.2 to the verge of release.  How can you make such an
> > ominous pronouncement?  It can't be just the indexing speed; is it?



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