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| | 11 | <h3>November 13, 2007 - The State of Swish-e</h3> |
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| | 12 | |
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| | 13 | <p> |
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| | 14 | It's been nearly a year since the last official release. |
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| | 15 | Lest folks think Swish-e is just gathering dust we thought we would |
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| | 16 | do a little "state of the project" summary to get folks up to speed on |
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| | 17 | where we are. |
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| | 18 | </p> |
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| | 19 | |
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| | 20 | <p> |
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| | 21 | There are currently 4 people regularly contributing to Swish-e. Bill Moseley |
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| | 22 | is the project leader; David Norris handles all the Windows builds; Jose Ruiz |
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| | 23 | has been working on the 2.6 branch; and Peter Karman has been working on the |
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| | 24 | 3.0 version. |
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| | 25 | </p> |
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| | 26 | |
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| | 27 | <h4>The 2.6 branch</h4> |
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| | 28 | <p> |
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| | 29 | As documented on the <a href="/devel/">development page</a>, the 2.6 version |
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| | 30 | of Swish-e will offer a stable incremental index format and deprecate several features |
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| | 31 | of the 2.4 branch. You can <a href="http://svn.swish-e.org/swish-e/branches/2.6/"> |
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| | 32 | check out the 2.6 branch from the Subversion repository</a> to see our progress. |
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| | 33 | The 2.6 branch uses the Berkeley database for storage. There is currently no timeline |
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| | 34 | for when an official 2.6 release will happen. |
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| | 35 | </p> |
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| | 36 | |
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| | 37 | <h4>Version 3.0</h4> |
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| | 38 | <p>Peter has been working on the next major version of Swish-e in fits and starts |
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| | 39 | for a couple of years. Version 3.0 marks a significant change in the architecture |
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| | 40 | and will support Unicode and offer a variety of backend storage formats. See the |
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| | 41 | <a href="/devel/">development page</a> and <a href="http://dev.swish-e.org/wiki/swish3">the |
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| | 42 | development wiki</a> for more details. |
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| | 43 | </p> |
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| | 44 | |
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| | 45 | <h4>How you can help</h4> |
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| | 46 | <p> |
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| | 47 | Version 3.0 is at the point where several API decisions need to be made. Even if you |
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| | 48 | don't code in C, you can contribute by: |
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| | 49 | |
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| | 50 | <ul> |
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| | 51 | <li>reviewing the existing documentation</li> |
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| | 52 | <li>testing the existing code to see if it builds correctly (passes tests) |
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| | 53 | in your local environment</li> |
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| | 54 | <li>contributing tests</li> |
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| | 55 | </ul> |
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| | 56 | |
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| | 57 | </p> |
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