Re: [Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

2013-03-10 Thread Yuval Greenfield
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Richard Jones r1chardj0...@gmail.comwrote: That *was* the original search engine :-) Then after user complaints we devised a better solution... Always happy to take criticism of it and improve it! :-) Sent from my portable device, please excuse the brevity.

Re: [Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

2013-03-10 Thread Richard Jones
On 10 March 2013 19:05, Yuval Greenfield ubershme...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Richard Jones r1chardj0...@gmail.com wrote: That *was* the original search engine :-) Then after user complaints we devised a better solution... Always happy to take criticism of it and

Re: [Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On 10 March 2013 21:23, Richard Jones r1chardj0...@gmail.com wrote: We could probably just use the text search stuff built into postgres, rather than the current naive LIKE searching. There is a ranking algorithm in place and it does strongly prefer matching the name you've entered; it doubly

[Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread holger krekel
Hi Donald, Richard, Nick, Philip, Marc-Andre, all, after some more thinking i wrote a simplified PEP draft for transitioning hosting of release files to pypi.python.org. A PEP is warranted IMO because the according changes will affect all python package maintainers and the Python packaging

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: Hi Donald, Richard, Nick, Philip, Marc-Andre, all, after some more thinking i wrote a simplified PEP draft for transitioning hosting of release files to pypi.python.org. A PEP is warranted IMO because the according

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Jesse Noller
+1 On Mar 10, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: Hi Donald, Richard, Nick, Philip, Marc-Andre, all, after some more thinking i wrote a simplified PEP draft for transitioning hosting of release

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread holger krekel
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 13:35 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: [...] Transitioning to pypi-cache mode - When transitioning from the currently implicit pypi-ext mode to pypi-cache for

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Aaron Meurer
On Mar 10, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 2:18 PM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 13:35 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: [...] Transitioning to

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread PJ Eby
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: Philip, Marc-Andre, Richard (Jones), Nick and catalog-sig/distutils-sig: scrutiny and feedback welcome. Hi Holger. I'm having some difficulty interpreting your proposal because it is leaving out some things, and in other

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread holger krekel
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 14:29 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 2:18 PM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 13:35 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: [...] Transitioning to

Re: [Catalog-sig] Search engine relevance

2013-03-10 Thread PJ Eby
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Richard Jones r1chardj0...@gmail.com wrote: This might solve the AGI problem and could probably produce good results using the current ranking algorithm. Not sure. Google's search algorithms are far advanced ;-) Heh. This just gave me a bit of a chuckle, taken

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Jesse Noller
I said that before we talked to a lawyer On Mar 10, 2013, at 3:54 PM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 14:29 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 2:18 PM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 13:35 -0400, Donald Stufft

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 10, 2013, at 3:41 PM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: Philip, Marc-Andre, Richard (Jones), Nick and catalog-sig/distutils-sig: scrutiny and feedback welcome. Hi Holger. I'm having some difficulty

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 10, 2013, at 3:54 PM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 14:29 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 2:18 PM, holger krekel hol...@merlinux.eu wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 13:35 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:07 AM,

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread PJ Eby
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: If someones release process forces PyPI to have security, uptime, and privacy issues then I'm very sorry but their release process is going to need to change. It's not fun, it's a shitty situation, but trying to bend over

Re: [Catalog-sig] pre-PEP: transition to release-file hosting at pypi site

2013-03-10 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 10, 2013, at 6:41 PM, PJ Eby p...@telecommunity.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: If someones release process forces PyPI to have security, uptime, and privacy issues then I'm very sorry but their release process is going to need to