[Snowball-discuss] Ending work on snowball

[Florian Brucker]

Dear Martin,

I can see how this is the most reasonable step for Richard and you --
let me take this opportunity to thank you both for your great work!

Do you have plans of keeping the source code available on the web? AFAIK
you currently have your own SVN repository which you'll probably don't
want to maintain once you shut down the website. May I suggest to host
the code on a public repository service like GitHub or Bitbucket? That
way, people interested in further development would have an easy start.


Regards,
Florian

On 16.09.2014 12:01, Martin Porter wrote:
> Dear snowball-discuss subscribers,
> 
> After due discussion, Richard Boulton and I have decided to bring
> further active work on the snowball website to a close. Richard is now
> very fully occupied in demanding employment, while I am effectively
> retired (my 70th birthday was two months ago), and very unlikely to
> produce any new stemmers in the future. If anyone is actively engaged
> on snowball work with the expectation of its future inclusion on the
> snowball site, they should contact us about this now.
> 
> The snowball website itself will of course be left untouched, after
> the updates with the necessary announcements of this change, and will
> continue to exist for the indefinite future.
> 
> The mailing list will be kept running for the next few months, at
> least. We expect to close it down at the beginning of 2015.
> 
> My private email address (martin at tartarus.org) will still be open for
> questions about snowball, of course, and I will endeavour to answer
> them all, as I have always done for the many non-snowball emails I
> receive about the Porter stemmer.
> 
> Martin
> 
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