On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Yousef Ourabi wrote:
There is nothing to compile. /trunk/c_src is empty. Are there any status updates?
Lucy is dormant but not dead. There are three committers: myself, Dave Balmain, and Doug Cutting. Doug's role was to be advisory, while Dave and I were to do the heavy lifting. Unfortunately, Dave has had a number of things come up which have significantly curtailed his ability to contribute to open source projects, including both Ferret and Lucy. That leaves me.
I'm still active and working on a very closely related project, KinoSearch. Basically everything that went into Lucy has been integrated into the KinoSearch code base, and subsequently improved... I just haven't fed anything back into the Lucy repository in a while.
The problem is that Lucy doesn't have users, so people don't try it out, find an itch that needs scratchin', and contribute. KinoSearch, on the other hand, has received lots of nice contributions in the last year. With Dave mostly unavailable, I've gone where the developers are. Ultimately, some of the development work happening on KS is likely to find its way into Lucy, and like most people, I'm more productive in a social setting than working solo, so I'm more productive this way. My plan is to finish the long-awaited KinoSearch 0.20 update, then reassess. I'll either keep going with KinoSearch or Lucy, but not both.
For the last several months I was engaged in a full-time-plus contract job, but now I am considerably freer. I'm presently able to dedicate lots of time to KS, and that will continue for several months at least.
Cheers, Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/
