On Nov 18, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Andreas Korth wrote: > What worries me most is the fact that Ferret is effectively an > abandoned project. The original author, who is the sole owner of the > code, hasn't been posting to this list for about six months. He hasn't > introduced any improvements in about the same period of time and many > bugs still remain unfixed.
I have a large fraction of the expertise needed to maintain the C part of the Ferret code base, FWIW. What I'm missing is significant Ruby expertise, which I wouldn't mind accumulating. :) If what's needed is C-level bug fixing, I can probably help out. > New bugs can't be submitted (let alone > patches) because the project Trac is offline. I know it's been down before, but <http://ferret.davebalmain.com/ trac> looks like it's up to me, now. Also, I see a commit from Dave bumping the version to 0.11.5 yesterday. The C code base that I am currently working on, which has a foundation designed by Dave and I to be shared by multiple host languages, is going to wind up having Ruby bindings eventually. It will either happen as part of the Lucy project, or independently. In the meantime, perhaps I can contribute to Ferret in a caretaker/ troubleshooter role. Dave gave me commit access to the repository a while ago, and I just verified that I still have it. Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/ _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
