It was twenty years ago today...

[Marco Villegas]

Olly,

Thanks for taking the time to write about this.

As one Xapian user, I really appreciate all the efforts made by all
contributors behind it, and I would like to thank you all :-)

Congratulations on turning 20!

Best,

-Marco


On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:29:37 +0100
Olly wrote:
> Xapian has turned 20!
> 
> Strictly speaking it was 20 years ago last month but I managed to miss
> the true anniversary - the oldest commit in the Xapian repo is:
> 
> commit 8ced76ea128c8fb2792477e09b41fa989f2e572f
> Author: Richard Boulton <richard at tartarus.org>
> Date:   Fri Sep 10 09:50:40 1999 +0000
> 
>     Martins initial code, which didn't work for him but did for me.
> 
> Back then Richard, Martin and I all worked for BrightStation, and
> Richard and I were working in a small office high above the foyer of
> St John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK - just behind the "/"
> strut below the highest part of the roof about 1/4 in from the right
> of the photo on:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Innovation_Centre#/media/File:St_Johns_Innovation_Centre.jpg
> 
> This was before the project was called Xapian.  Then 18 years ago
> (actually to the day):
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/omseek/mailman/omseek-discuss/?viewmonth=200110
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 


Best,