Hi, it's the time of the year again where everybody writes reviews. I hope you're not fed up yet, because here's another one. From my perspective, LT can look back on a successful year 2013. Here are some of the highlights:
* Two new committers joined LT: Panagiotis Minos and Stefan Lotties * We published three releases so far (2.1, 2.2, 2.3), and 2.4 is supposed to be released later this year * A lot of work has been put into adding and improving rules * A lot of work has been put into improving performance, for example by using more than one thread, and into improving the desktop GUI * Visits to our homepage have increased from about 6,000 visits/week to 11,000 visits/week, a lot of that coming from softcatala.org * We switched from ant to Maven, enabling us to modularize LT and to put it on Maven Central, the main repository for Open Source components written in Java. This makes it much easier for Java developers to use LT. * We switched from SVN to git and github, finally using not only a modern revision control system but also a modern website for issue tracking (the only thing still at Sourceforge is this mailing list). * LanguageToolFx, the Firefox extension, made it into the Mozilla's "Up & coming Extensions" section, leading to thousands of downloads in a few weeks. * Plus there's surely some other important event that I forgot to mention - sorry about that However, we could do so much more if we had more people maintaining a language. For languages that have no maintainer in LT, there's almost no progress. These languages benefit when we make optimizations to the framework, but that's negligible compared to the progress you get when someone consistently works on the rules for that language. So one important task for the next year should be to find maintainers for several languages[1]. If you have any ideas about that, please let us know. So looking back on a successful 2013, I'm sure we'll experience an even better 2014 for LanguageTool. I wish you a nice holiday season and a Happy New Year! Regards Daniel [1] http://languagetool.org/languages/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
