Volunteers
The following persons are involved (alphabetical order):
- Michael Christen/Orbiter is project founder; designed and implemented the overall architecture, is chief software architect, release management, kelondro database, yacy core protocol, indexing technique and database structure, search and ranking functionality, http client/server architecture, admin of yacy.net
- Natali Christen designed the YaCy logo.
- Daburna provided some german translation. He also made bittorrent-releases
- Stephan Hermens has made some important bugfixes.
- Matthias Kempka provided a linux-init start/stop - script
- Timo Leise suggested and implemented an extension to the blacklist feature: part-of-domain matching.
- Marc Nause made many major enhancements to the YaCyWiki, the Message- and User-Profile menues and functions.
- Thomas Quella designed the Kaskelix mascot. He also made a large number of bug fixes.
- Roland Ramthun owns and administrates the German YaCy-Forum. He publishes a monthly YaCy newsletter, cares for correct English spelling and a German translation of the YaCy user interface. Roland and other forum participants extended the PHPForum code to make it usable as bug- and feature-tracking system..
- Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann, executive board member of the German search-engine association SuMa-eV
and manager of the meta-search-engine metaGer provided computing resources for a demo peer. He also pushed the project by arranging promotional events.
- Alexander Schier did much alpha-testing from beginning of project, and suggested many features; implemented the blacklist feature, bookmarks, log-menu, user-db, skin-feature, windows-installer and provided first implementation of the yacybar Firefox extension; admin of yacy-websuche.de and the media-wiki at yacy-websuche.de/wiki.
- Matthias Söhnholz added the offline-browsing feature
- slick helps as packager (.rpm, .deb etc)
- Martin Thelian made system-wide performance enhancement by introducing thread pools; he added ICAP and SOAP support, most of external parser integration, maintains the http protocol implementation, added squid compatibility, robots protocol, better logging and many index protocol, import/export and transfer enhancements. He created a YaCy screensaver and coded major parts of the yacybar Firefox extension.
Further volunteers are very welcome.
Please contact me if you have something that you are willing to do for this project. In any case: before you start something to do, please ask me in advance if I would like to integrate it later. Thank You!
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