Hi, Due to travel and my mailserver being down over New Year's, I wasn't able to follow last year's "tradition" of a New Year's message. As last year, this will be in parts, a look back and a look forward. First off, a look back at what I posted last year at this time. (Hey, I figure accountability and plain speaking are important things! ;-) Goals for 1999: * New server: Yes, we got a new server. Actually the new server became an even newer server, but this remark was on the money--htdig.org is here to stay and it offers more services and hopefully better performance for all of us. * Database merging: Yes, this finally made it into 3.1.0 and it's here to stay. * Bugs: Obviously since there's a 3.1.4 release, there were a few to be found in 3.1.0 to 3.1.3. ;-) But I hope we still take bug reports very seriously--to me it seems most now boil down into "it's a feature, not a bug" as I hoped last year. Of course we're also about to release 3.2.0b1 so we'll be back to bug-squashing again. * Better results: My project to improve search precision is a bit on hold, but I think this did happen, largely due to fixing bugs. * Scalability: It's still a bit hazy how well ht://Dig scales. It's obvious that it *can* scale to millions of pages, but that's not to say performance isn't a priority either. We just don't have as much feedback as we'd like. (Read: We want to hear from you. Good, bad, indifferent?) * Usability: Well, this didn't make it in 1999, but as many of you know, there's an offer for an admin CGI. I had several takers, but one stood out and in the coming weeks we'll start to see this shape up. All in all, not a bad year, but it's really just a start... -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this.
