Looking for a new style leader! —
The style guideline process has been stuck in neutral for quite some time and I was hoping that Panda could take over this role from Don Redman (who had been swallowed up by real life quite some time ago), but real life is about to swallow Panda for the foreseeable future. Thus, I start the [...]
Posted: 2008-06-30 22:20 GMT
Call for search server testing —
After I gave some history in the last post, I’d like to put out a call for testing for the new search server. In moving from Lucene to Xapian I’ve fixed a number of bugs, some of which have been lingering for a while. Also see the list of bugs we still have open and [...]
Posted: 2008-06-27 06:29 GMT
Search: Why is it so important? —
After many days of tinkering, the new search server has passed its tests and is nearly ready for deployment next week. After my last post on the search services, there were lots of questions, so I’ll give some more history on why I’m working on this now:
The old Lucene based search services worked well, but [...]
Posted: 2008-06-26 22:30 GMT
Bug tracker in read-only mode for a while —
Dave was working on upgrading software on our catch-all server and ran into some problems with plugins for trac, our bug tracking system. Trac is currently up, but the plugin to log-in hasn’t been installed yet, so no one can log into track right now.
Dave will continue working on this in about 8-10 hours of [...]
Posted: 2008-06-26 21:49 GMT