October and November have been two quite busy months for us. The
following is a short summary of the most important changes - a detailed
list can be found at the Changelog.
A lot of bug hunting and fixing has been going on behind the scenes. The
internal scripts and the database got quite a lot of tweaking and
finetuning.
The entire Aminet tree needed some cleaning up as well. All archives
have a proper architecture field by now, lots of (very) old archives
were missing their readmes or readme files were shared between archives
(foo.lzh and foo.lha both had foo.readme). We could even resurrect some
ancient archives that were accidentally deleted from the indices years
ago.
The mailing lists are back - if you want to get daily or weekly e-mails
listing the recent uploads, just send a mail to
aminet-daily-subscribe@aminet.net or aminet-weekly-subscribe@aminet.net.
They do not carry information about a package's architecture yet, but
we're working on that.
Aminet mirrors are on the verge to be rolled out properly. A new German
mirror hosted by Costel 'Cyborg' Mincea is already online and can be
accessed at de4.aminet.net for now. We're still missing a mirror in
eastern europe - if you think you can help out, please get in touch with
us.
The uploader's e-mail address gets obfuscated now, both in the web
interface and in the actual readme. Please note that this field is now
strictly required -not specifying an e-mail address may result in your
upload getting deleted.
The statistics have been expanded
aswell - we have uploader stats now. This month's most active uploader
is Tony "I was born for SDL" Aksnes. If you want to compete with him,
make sure your uploader field is spelled exactly the same on all your
uploads.
The search function now supports Amiga wildcards: You can search for
foo?.lha, foo#?.lha or even foo*.lha. Searching readmes should be quite
a lot faster now aswell, though the database is still busy indexing all
the readme files.
During the first six months of this year, we did have some problems:
Packages didn't get moderated as regularly as we would have wished, we
had database problems and the server went down several times. These
issues should be solved by now - as far as we can tell everything is
running smoothly. But please don't hesitate to drop us a note if you
encounter any problems or just want to give some feedback. We're open to
suggestions aswell: If you have an idea for improving Aminet, let us
know.
Last but not least: October was a new record month for uploads and in
November we surpassed the year 2003 in terms of uploads, making 2005 the
first year Aminet's upload rate rises since 1997!
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