[Search-l] Grub Update

[jer]

Tremendous response, and thanks to everyone for their patience as we  
muddle through this :)

First, there's lots of clamoring for some source code, so here's  
*something* to start with even though it's not yet in a source  
repository or even stamped with the right license headers, should  
have an official source release in a week or so but this will get  
things rolling:
	http://grub.org/client/grub_client2.tgz

Second, quick status update on the grub.org service itself, there's  
many hundreds of clients running already but we're having a problem  
getting the stats output working.  Igor Stojanovski and Kord Campbell  
(two of the original founders) have been actively helping and putting  
in some serious time to get everything running smoothly again, many  
thanks guys!

Third, answering the "what's it going to do" question.  In the long  
run within the Atlas framework, Grub could become a distributed  
"Factory" and be publishing crawled/refined content to anyone for  
indexing.  Immediately though there's one big desire: collect all of  
the crawled content into one shared repository and publish it under  
the GFDL, with simple ways of accessing updates and providing quality  
feedback.  A compressed and lightly indexed (by time/URL) common  
crawled output source is a place to start and something many will  
benefit from.

More to come as this all evolves, feedback encouraged, thanks!

Jer