[Linuxhardwareguide-mailinglist] Xmas greetings and Xmas tasks

[Linux-Hardware-Guide <lin...@gm...>]

Dear colleagues,

I wish you a merry Christmas and time to be spent with family and friends!

Don't forget that you can donate your Karma points to Linux and
OpenSource projects via your personal settings page. So, make a Xmas
gift to other projects by selecting your favorite donation target at:

http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/wp-admin/profile.php or
http://www.linux-hardware-guide.de/wp-admin/profile.php


I hope I can also find some free time to work on the
Linux-Hardware-Guide over the upcoming days. There seem to be some major
problems that I think should be tackled over the next days:

1) The server speed seems to be constantly decreasing. Maybe this is due
to the amount of recently uploaded hardware scans and articles created
out of these scan. Probably, the page does not scale very well. At least
it seems not to come from the amount of page visitors. This will need
some detailed investigation of the code and SQL requests. If someone is
interested in supporting me, let me know. I could provide you access to
the developer machines where one can test and modify the code without
harming the real site.

2) There is still a big backlog of scans. Currently, I am the only one
who creates articles out of scans and I would like to also allow other
users to do this. But instead of analyzing all the scans I would rather
develop the code to let also other users to create articles from scans.
If you are interested in analyzing scans and creating articles, we could
work on this together. You can tell me what features you need and I
could try to implement them (although unfortunately it often takes some
time since currently I am working alone on the code).

Best regards,
cptpike