[Lxr-dev] LXR project coming back to life

[Malcolm B. <mal...@gm...>]

Hi,

You might have noticed the recent flurry of activity on lxr-developer
(assuming anyone is still reading these mails).  Thanks to the state
of the economy, I now have more time on my hands and am planning to
spend more time working on the LXR.  Sorry for the 3 year hiatus - and
if anyone else wants to take over/become a maintainer I'm more than
happy to hand over the reins.

The codebase at SF is now a bit old and tired, and Arne's LXRng has
some nice new features.  My hope/plan is to:

- Resolve all the remaining bugs reported, and apply any outstanding
patches etc. to the 0.9.x tree
- Release v1.0.0 at last
- Start on a major refresh/overhaul of LXR, merging/incorporating the
work Arne's done on LXRng.

Main goals for the overhaul from my point of view are:

- Much improved browsing experience, using AJAX etc to provide a much
smoother searching and browsing experience.
- Move to a proper web framework for the frontend (currently seriously
considering Django) so that setup, caching, templates and providing a
RESTful API are all easier.
- Improve the speed and accuracy of the genxref process

Any comments or criticism would be welcome!

Malcolm