[Xapian-discuss] Xapian's 10th Birthday

[Charlie Hull]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:59:49AM -0700, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>> Perhaps you could consider to make a donation button on xapian.org
>> site, that would allow users to donate money to cover Xapian open
>> source operation expenses, similarly as Eclipse foundation is doing.
>> It would make many users of Xapian open source  feel better if they
>> could give something back for good cause to help Xapian search engine
>> library to grow. Small donations are adding lot faster than finding
>> one big sponsor.
> 
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> 
> If people want to put money directly into improving Xapian, we're open
> to sponsorship of the development of new features.  A lot of features
> have been wholly or partly sponsored - a few recent examples are
> spelling correction, synonyms, database replication, collapsing to leave
> more than one document, and posting sources.  And this way you know
> exactly what your money is being spent on!

Another idea would be improving documentation, or even a book (like 
Lucene in Action).

Charlie
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>