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Re: Status Report



I'm sorry... I've been totally swamped this week, and this may have come
to the list and missed my attention... but where can I find information on
the "RAPI" spec sheet?  Thanks.

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Jason Pincin
http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
LKB Project Leader

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:49:31PM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> Whelp, I've been pretty busy the last week, so I won't go into too much
> detail.  If you want to know more let me know.
> 
> - Bug stomping in devball: about 8 hours.  That's right, there we're
> actually bugs in my scripts.  Sorry to disappoint everyone who thought I
> coded without errors.  :-)  Look for 1.0.9 later this week to update htdig
> conf's (note that this is a feature add, not a bug fix).  Anyways, I've
> gotten confirmation from Micah that "it works!  Cool!".
> 
> - Search engine stuff.  Finding bugs in Marc's htdig patches (he'll try to
> fix them this week).   Also, I've spent about 10-15 hours working on
> Search.pm and the search forms.  Short list is:
> 	- Various speedups, including getting rid of a fork() for each
> 	search, and removing close to 100 lines of code from Search.pm.
> 	- Feature enhancements to Search.pm and PHP search forms (keeping
> 	state between forms, etc)
> 	- Finding other bugs and getting rid of them too.
> 	- Replace star.gif with flame.gif
> 
> - I brought on Hugo Rabson.  I've been talking to Hugo off and on for over
> a month now, and I'm really excited that he's decided to come on board
> with us.  Hugo has some great ideas for integrating the KB backend with
> console and X applications from Gnome, KDE, etc and I'm sure his list of
> ideas will keep us busy for a long time.  I hope everyone will take 5
> minutes to look over his RAPI spec sheet and comment.
> 
> --
> Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
> Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
> Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
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> 
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