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[Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:41:18PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:31:24PM +0100, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 of March 2007 21:21:38 Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10703
> > > >
> > > > Like Andrew said, the problem lies in the keyword index not being 
> > > > there.
> > >
> > > Well, gaze could still have implemented a search functionality without
> > > the index being in the official grimoire.
> > That's how it was done. ;)
> > Why would the sorcery team review the patch or commit that functionality 
> > though, as it relies on the index being there (unusable without it) and 
> > genereting it was estamblished to be too expensive to be run on the user 
> > side 
> > regularly. Plus, the interest in keywords soon diminished.
> 
> Well, there's no reason not to make a function actually using keywords
> available to developers, so they can actually *see* why there's a reason
> to spend time on keywords.

Realize that the sorcery team regularly gets feature requests that
very few people are interested in. At a certain point keywords fell into
that bucket. It was pretty clear no one cared enough to make the index
available. If no one cares to have it, its not a good use of resources.
The sorcery team does not add features merely for feature's sake. So, Im
not really buying that there was "no reason not to".

Getting back on topic...

Im not really sure theres much point in continuing to serve and volley 
excuses about this though. The ball got dropped, and that sucks. More
leadership and accountability was needed. I think Jeremy understands this
and will do what he can as PL. However that doesnt mean it should all be
on him. The grimoire is too big of a component to run on auto-pilot. So,
I will be looking for the ability to lead and ensure that "things get done"
when making my voting decision.

-Andrew

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