[Grub-dev] Wondering about Architecture, Bug-base, Discussions, ...

[Bartek Jasicki]

2008-10-19, 11:10:21
Swaroop C H <swaroopch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 

Hi Swarooop

> I just got curious about Wikia Search, and I couldn't find out much
> details about how the project operates and the contributors, other
> than http://re.search.wikia.com/about/get_involved.html .
> 

Information about Grub on this page are little outdated (i wonder when
someone change it - maybe on link to Grub page? ;) )

> For example:
> 
> 1. Is there an architecture about how Grub works?

There is simple documentation about protocol(architecture) which use
Grub:
http://grub.org/?q=/node/121

> 2. And the grubng code repo seems to have c, java, csharp, perl, etc.
> directories, are all of these used?

At this moment only C# client is still under development. Rest of
code we leave for historical reasons.

ArcExplorer - simple GUI in C++ and wxWidgets to explore .arc files
generated by clients.
c - console client written in C
csharp - C# console and graphical client
java - java client (probably not working)
perl - simple Perl console client plus current scripts which we use as
a servers.
shell - very simple bash client (probably not working)
site - page repository - all translations and changed files for Grub
page.

> (http://svn.swlabs.org/grubng/trunk/) 
>3. The grub-dev mailing list
> seems to have only 2-3 posts per months, is there a different place
> where the main discussions happen? Perhaps IRC? 

Main reason of quiet on mailing list is, that on Grub at this moment
work only one person (Jeremie only maintain current servers and Seth is
our sysadmin) - so its little hard for me to make monologue ;) We have
few channels where you can communicate with us: mailing list, forum on
page, IRC channel (we use this same channel which use Wikia Search -
#wikia-search at irc.freenode.net) or simply direct mails to selected
developer. Information about new releases of software mainly you can
find on our page (on mailing list I only announce major versions like
0.6, 0.7 and so on) 

>4. Is there a public bugbase somewhere? 

Yes, at page we have bugtrack (for now used mainly for C# client and
page):
http://grub.org/?q=/project/issues

>5. How do the servers actually dish out the search
> results? Is it a pure Nutch index or are there Wikia-specific code on
> top of it?

I think better place to ask about this is Wikia Search mailing list:
http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l

There you can find links to other mailing lists too ;)

> 6. Who are the contributors? How do I follow their work?

About contributors to C# client - all are listed in AUTHORS file (if i
miss someone, please give me a sign). If you want contribute
only to Grub, I wrote two short howto's at page:
http://grub.org/?q=/node/136

If you want contribute to Wikia Search - I think the best way to ask
about this is Wikia Search mailing list ;)

> I hope these are valid questions, and this is the right place to
> ask :)
> 

Yes, all is ok, and i hope i answer good on all your questions ;) If
you (or someone else) have any other questions about Grub - feel free
to ask ;)

Regards
Bartek


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