Trove Tasks and Volunteers List
This page lists (a) what things currently need doing, and (b) who has
volunteered for them.
Volunteers
Eric S. Raymond launched the
project. He has general responsibility for the architecture, if only
because he's maintaining the design document and project pages.
Erik Walthinsen volunteered to do
a Postgres DB layer, on 07 Jun 1998.
Kurt Starsinic also volunteered to do
a Postgres DB layer, on 15 Jun 1998.
Michael Sobolev volunteered to do
database work (backend unspecified), on 16 Jun 1998
M. A. Lemburg volunteered to
write the Trove crawler.
Michel Pelletier has
volunteered to write the search/browse UI.
Tasks
The shovel:
ESR has done the upper half (TRL parsing, request authentication, and
resource retrieval). Lower half (the database and archive
interface) still needs to be done.
The crawler:
Not yet started.
The mailbot:
Not yet started. Should be pretty trivial once the shovel is done.
The librarian:
The CGI interface for searching/browsing/downloading is not yet
started.
The domain model:
Correct design of a structured-keyword set for use as discriminators
is a large nasty problem. Ideally, needs somebody with both intimate
knowledge of the domain and library-science/IR skills.
The text search engine
Glimpse? htDIG? Something else? We need somebody with expertise to
survey the field and figure out what text search engine best suits our
needs.
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>