[KinoSearch] Fwd: [Kinosearch] KinoSearch Status

[Marvin Humphrey]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:04:13PM -0700, Nathan Kurz wrote:
> Hi Marvin ---
> 
> Is it possible that you are not subscribed to the KinoSearch list?

Yes, that's right.  Thanks for the heads up.

I see from snooping the Mailman kinosearch.mbox file that a few posts that
have accumulated without my notice.  Curiously, they aren't showing up in the
web archives, so something in the Mailman setup is whack.

> From: Dermot <paikkos at googlemail.com>

> Does anyone know is Marvin is still active with KinoSearch? 

*Very* active.  I was recently hired by Eventful (<http://eventful.com>) to
build KS applications for them.  Right now, nearly all the problems they need
solved involve the core library, so I'm working on it full-time.

> I haven't seen any replies to queries from this list and am beginning to
> wonder if he's moved on.

The box that was hosting rectangular.com had a hard drive crash just before I
flew down to San Diego to interview with Eventful.  I was able to get
everything restored within a few days from backups, with one crucial
exception: my backup routines had missed portions of the Mailman data,
including the subscriber lists for kinosearch and kinosearch-commits.

In between then and now I've moved to San Diego (from Eugene, Oregon) and
started a new job, hence the delay in dealing with the problem.  I reached the
endgame in my attempts to retrieve the data two days ago: DriveSavers called
to let me know that their attempts to recover data from the bad drive had
failed.  It had suffered a head crash, and the platters were so scraped up
they couldn't get anything off them.

Since DriveSavers only charges when they're successful, that's $500-$2700 I
don't have to spend.  However, I have no good way of rebuilding those
subscriber lists.  I plan to scan past messages and force-subscribe people who
have posted and who I don't recall having seen unsub notifications for, plus
send emails to the various archiving services that had bots subscribed.  I'll
also post an announcement to PerlMonks.  After I've taken those steps, I'll
start clearing out the backlog.

Those of you who are currently subscribed will see the content of this message
at least once more, in a status post I'll send after the mass force-subscribe.
I'll try to avoid sending more useless posts to you all, but there may be a
little noise while I debug the web archive problem.

Best,

Marvin Humphrey