Hi Fred. Yes, you can find much of the code in github. Start
with https://github.com/gutenbergtools

Feature development is active there in the pull requests and
issue trackers.

Welcome!
  Greg Newby

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 06:24:33PM +0000, Fred Richey wrote:
>
> I am new here and am interested in helping on the tech end of things.
>
> Is your codebase on GitHub?
>
> Interested in applying AI and agents to ....   I begin to babble....
>
> Have started an app that enhances the user's access to the book to for example:  as one reads chapter 13 and Joe is mentioned and you forget who Joe is ask the book!
>
> ________________________________
> From: Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2025 3:43 PM
> To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>
> Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: GUTINDEX files have not seen an update since May 7th
>
> Currently there is no automation for the GUTINDEX files. They
> are maintained by hand, and have been for decades -- all the
> way back to the 1990s.
>
> Any automation would require new development. As I mentioned,
> I think this could be built into the workflow tool the WWers
> utilize.
>   ~ Greg
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 02:23:20PM -0500, Jared Buck wrote:
> > A mix of both might not be a bad idea.  Having some sort of automated
> > script for most of it but then hand-editing when something like an author
> > is changed?  I'm no programmer but I'm sure there is a way to automate some
> > of it.  That being said, as a person with a disability, most of my work
> > right now in RL is on a volunteer basis while I get some help looking for a
> > paid job. These files usually seem to be updated once a week as it is, so
> > i'm sure an automated script running 1x a week to automate most of this and
> > then a manual hand-edit when correction posts are made, seems
> > like something you wouldn't have to devote a lot of time to.  I'd
> > volunteer to do that if no one else can, but I'd have to find someone to
> > write a programming script for automating it, first.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The long-time maintainer, Larry Copenhaver, has had to step back from
> > > this role due to health issues.
> > >
> > > The GUTINDEX.ALL files under "offline catalogs" at
> > > https://www.gutenberg.org (and companion files like GUTINDEX.2000) are
> > > Project Gutenberg's accession files. They list all our publications in
> > > numerical order.
> > >
> > > Many people use these frequently (including me).
> > >
> > > To continue to maintain them, either:
> > > 1. A new maintainer needs to step forward
> > > 2. We could try to develop automation to maintain the files
> > >
> > > The maintainer role is to simply copy Posted announcements to the
> > > right place in the GUTINDEX files.
> > >
> > > An automated solution would plug into the suite of "workbench" tools
> > > the production team (WWers) use. If you've seen the Posted email list,
> > > you can see that the top line of a Posted announcement is what goes
> > > into the GUTINDEX files.
> > >
> > > Generally the lists simply grow with every new posting. Occasionally
> > > they need some hand-editing, such as when we remove items or fix
> > > the title or author.
> > >   ~ Greg
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 12:31:28PM -0400, Dan Lowe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2025, at 1:21 PM, Greg Newby wrote:
> > > > > Indeed, we might have lost our maintainer. I've reached out...
> > > > >   ~ Greg
> > > >
> > > > The format of those files is not overly complex. Do we have clean enough
> > > metadata to generate them programmatically? I assume the book title and
> > > book number are low-hanging fruit, but I'm not sure about other
> > > information, e.g. illustrator(s), editor(s), subtitle...
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> > >