[Search-l] Wikia Press Release on search project

[Seth Finkelstein]

>>	Just checking, some of the news reports say "Miller will serve
>>as technical lead of the open-source search project". Not that I have
>>a problem with that (quite the opposite), just asking. That implies some
>>sort of formal decision-making role (hopefully with Wikia salary and
>>equity to make up for the cat-herding and Pointy-Haired-Boss hassle :-)).
>
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:19:06PM -0500, jer wrote:
> There's been a few crazy headlines, but one thing I want to make as  
> clear as I did with Jabber: everything I do here is based on my  
> personal belief that openness, complete transparency, is an absolute  
> principle that must drive the future of search. 

	Of course. But it wasn't clear if you're a peer who was
getting press because of marquee value, or a superordinate being
modest. That's what I was trying to clarify. The news reports
indicated that Wikia was delegating project authority to you:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199202832
"He joined effective today," Wikia CEO Gil Penchina said Monday in an
interview. "He is off to the races and drawing things on the
whiteboard already."

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57183.html
As for further project benchmarks, "those are Jeremie's calls now," he
remarked. "I can tell you that we will start to see more communication
among the developers -- we will start building out more project roadmaps."

> I'm patient though, a good protocol, a simple and elegant one that  
> will stand the test of time and fracturing forces, takes a very long  
> time to evolve. Expect years, not months (for it to mature, not for  
> my draft, heh).

	Well, I'll keep my own counsel here until the draft is released.

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