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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:39:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>
To: letters@lwn.net
Subject: Linux KB Project Weekly News 12/17/99


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12/17/99 Status
                 Posted 17. December 1999 09:28 by Aaron Turner 

Well we're continuing to ramp up in preperation for our plans to do a
public alpha to start showcasing the site in early January. Among other
things you'll notice that we've got a new news section powered by MyNews.  
Expect to see weekly updates (give or take) about the progress of the
Linux KB Project...

Marc and I continue to hack away at the search engine and forms- we've
added a lot of features and squashed some nasty bugs too. Now that Marc
has ported his hacks to 3.1.4, he is looking into adding more features,
including working with the developers of Ht://Dig to port the underlying
database from Berkley DB to SQL.

Hugo Rabson has just joined the team and is starting work on a remote API
C library to allow developers to write help applications that interface
the KB over the Internet.  We're all very excited about how this could
enable tools written for Gnome and KDE to utilize the Linux KB.

Jason continues to hack away at the underlying PHP objects that power most
of the pages. Looks like they've become extreemely powerful over the past
few weeks.

Micah and Daniel are working on the user and article forms respectively.
Looks like they should have working code around the end of the month.

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