I think we're good with respect to JIRA. Ed and I discussed JIRA tickets a bit off-list. I don't have the authoritative answer, but I'm guessing most tickets are currently indexable. For example, searching Google for
site:issues.apache.org inurl:fineract loan returns many tickets in search results, such as FINERACT-2020 and FINERACT-1721. I'm not a robots.txt expert, but this is what I'd expect given explicit permission for Google's spiders in https://issues.apache.org/robots.txt and nothing blocking JIRA issue indexing in https://issues.apache.org/jira/robots.txt . Looks like DuckDuckGo/Bing and Archive.org are also indexing our JIRA tickets. We did notice some search result idiosyncrasies for queries across different search engines, but I don't find this surprising. Who knows how these things actually work. Re: Slack, Ed wrote: > https://gist.github.com/shubhampal62/f7e5331dc58af05f19e959f847c9d3e5 I see "Slack conversations were manually scraped out from the respective slack channels" in that gist, so I'm not clear on how they actually got the data... maybe a one-off manual export? I do still think it's a good idea to 1. automatically capture Slack messages and 2. post them somewhere online/public/index-able). The messages are a valuable community asset. #2 seems easily solvable. I would think it would also be easy / automatic to do #1, but if there's a way I haven't found it. Maybe I'm using the wrong search terms, or not doing the obvious thing (reviewing Slack settings / API). The LLM I asked seems to think it would be pretty easy to write a message logger, but I'm not convinced and I didn't try running the code it generated. I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-2171 : "make Slack messages discoverable by search engines". If you agree that's of value, please add a vote. Maybe that'd be a good student/intern/first contribution. I forget how we did this with IRC in the old days. I think a 3rd party service's bot sat in the channel, logging and posting messages somewhere online, but I can't find that now.
