This morning I was officially appointed as the maintainer of GNU Wget (one of the tasks on my to-do list is to update that page to the current, more modern GNU look, but for now, I’ve at least got my name on it 🙂 ). Wget is a very versatile command-line application for fetching web files, and can be used to grab local copies of web sites, or sections of web sites. I’ve used it many times for a variety of reasons; quick fetch of a web file to disk, grabbing a portion of a website so I can view it offline, web debugging….
It’s a fairly high-profile tool in the GNU and Unix worlds, so I’m proud to be able to be a part of it. It will be a big time investment, which I never have a whole lot of, but I am very, very motivated. I spent the weekend categorizing and prioritizing the things that need to be done on wget, so I have a fairly solid idea of what needs to be accomplished.