Hello > I've hacked together this nice new web interface: > > http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi > > It's the smart-search concept: you start with a full-text search, which > will give a starting set of wanted tags (the most common ones in the > search). I think the idea is a good one - it might even work in practice :-). I've tried a search starting with "package", "email" and "browser". Package was a total failure (I wanted tools dealing with packages). Email required me to remove 5 of the 6 suggested tags (though the one left was works-with::email which is good). Browser gave me some good results (I only had to remove GTK-UI ;-). However I think the results could be improved by performing some kind of scoring on the search results received by the full text search. Perhaps adding tags which match the search expression, regardless wether they appear often in the search results would be helpful too. Additionally I think that it must be possible to add tags which are not proposed at one location (without bloating the UI to much there could be a combobox, with autocompletion). Finally I would prefer to have the [Don't want],... entries small and appearing underneath the tag. But this might be a matter of taste: * Software development / programming: Software Libraries <small>[Don't want] [Ignore] [Remove]</small> Finally having the search box in the top right corner is not very intuitive for the start page. Put it somewhere more visible.
All this said I think its a good idea, worth being pursued. It seems to be really useful to allow adding a proposed tag to: "don't want" which helps narrowing the search results really fast to what you want. I think this does also provide a really good approach for a real search application (without the limitations of a web interface). Lets see if I can use some of those ideas :-)) Best regards Ben _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
