[Pydotorg-redesign] status of roundup and updated search engine?

[Aahz]

On Fri, May 16, 2003, Kevin Altis wrote:
>
> I was wondering how the roundup integration into python.org is
> going? I joined pydotorg last month, but I haven't seen any messages
> about it. It seemed like a good idea to "clean house before
> redecorating" so it would be nice to know if administration of
> python.org is less worth and easier now.

That's sitting on my plate to finish up defining the fields we're going
to use.  Nobody other than Richard commented on my design, and I've been
busy gearing up now that my contract with Addison Wesley has been
signed.  (My book will actually be published as _Effective Python, after
all.)

> Prior to PyCon, Aahz said "Updates to python.org search capabilities are
> probably on hold until we install the Ultraseek upgrade."
> 
>   http://pythonology.org/pipermail/marketing-python/2003-March/001138.html
> 
> Any status updates or timeline for this?

We're still waiting for Thomas to provide us with a machine.  It's
probably been long enough to make a ping worthwhile.

> Apologies for not being active on this list for a while. My efforts
> at local Open Source and Python promotion really took off here in
> Portland and that has detracted from the other projects.

One of the great things about Open Source is that if you're doing useful
work, it doesn't matter that much precisely what work you're doing.  ;-)
There's *always* too much work.

(And it's always much easier to write a response that doesn't require
thinking than it is to do Real Work....)
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"In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from
many other languages & styles:  boring syntax, unsurprising semantics,
few automatic coercions, etc etc.  But that's one of the things I like
about it."  --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93