I'm still in exams unfortunately, so this will be brief, but I'd like to hear some thoughts.
Imagine a small site without a great deal of traffic or data, and they wish to add search support for a model. Lucene or Xapian are probably overkill, and they may not want to invest time into getting it running. tsearch2 or MySQL full text indexes seem the obvious solution, and I would like to try and implement them, but what about a simple built in index that would be backend independent? Much like the django-search "simple" backend: http://code.google.com/p/django-search/source/browse/trunk/search/backends/simple.py Not that I just want to copy other projects, but it'd would be nice to bring together all the best features of all the Django search solutions that already exist. It would be ideal if the developers of all these projects (django-sphinx in particular seems the most mature) would be willing to assist with djangosearch. With their expertise on their search backends, we can make it contrib worthy. Thoughts? Oh and by the way - by the end of next week I should be able to start working. At last! Ben On 3 May 2008, at 22:33, Ben Firshman wrote: > > Hello all! > > A quick introduction: I have been accepted to the GSoC to work on > Django. I will be working on the djangosearch app > (http://code.google.com/p/djangosearch/ > ), in particular adding support for addition search backends, mentored > by Joseph Kocherhans. > > I will spend time getting Lucene and Xapian working well, and I have > an interest in getting Sphinx working too. The app is lacking > particularly in documentation, something I hope I can work on too. > > Due to exams, I can't begin working properly until mid-June, so all > the better for getting input from you! I would be very interested in > hearing what you would like to see from a search application, what > backends you want/are using and any other comments/suggestions you may > have. > > Thanks! > > Ben > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
