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From: Michael S. <st...@du...> - 2007-03-23 05:21:10
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I just came across this comment of Sverre's in issue "[ 1535953 ] WERA development still continuing?": http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1535953&group_id=118427&atid=681140. In case others have not seen it, I am posting it below to the list. St.Ack Date: 2006-09-29 00:44 Sorry for the late answer. I'll try to give my view on what will happen to Wera. I've been involved in Wera development since the start in 2000. Currently i'm the only developer working on Wera from time to time. I'm an employee of the National Library of Norway (NB), which uses Wera for access to their Web Archive, so naturally the effort put into Wera is driven by the needs of NB. During the latest months focus has been elsewhere in NB, and only a fraction of the Web Archive is available through Wera. The activities on indexing and access will be taken up again early next year. When that happens we will maintain Wera to fit the needs of NB. However, We will also be monitoring the developement of the Open Wayback. If/when Open Wayback is able to fulfill our needs as access tool we will have to decide wether to switch to Open Wayback or stay with Wera. We may also find that some parts of Wera can be replaced by parts of the Open Wayback. E.g. the Document Retriever of Wera is a weak link in Wera since it only handles the files within one directory (and not subdirectories). As long as someone sees the need for and is willing to take on the further development of Wera it will live. Every time i stumble into projects or persons that uses Wera for access i get a bit bewildered. Why is it that Wera get no new developer volunteers and few feature requests / bug reports are submitted to sourceforge when there are so many users? Must be a pretty good system, huh? Or is it that these users do not believe Wera will survive for very long and they don't want to invest any time of effort in a dying system. Has it something to do with Wera not being pure Java? I really don't know. All i know is that i would like you (the users of Wera) to share your opinion on these matters. Thanks Sverre |