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Joshua Slive wrote:
I have no problem at all with that, providing someone is willing to take charge, drive it through to completion, and assure it is maintained for some period of time. My primary concern is with giving our users the best possible search. Our experience with running our own search engines on *.apache.org has been mixed at best.
I tell you what, once a decision has been made I would be very happy to take this on as my first task. (Above and beyond patching, of course). Is there a case for trialling so called 'rival' products in a bid to ascertain their suitability for the task in hand.
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With regards to who could access the account, it would actually be all apache comitters I believe. We could choose different access control if we wanted, but I don't think it is a big deal. (We just don't want anyone switching it to point to playboy.com... Or maybe we do...) With regards to 1.3 having too much weight, I would setup a separate search engine for each version. (I would probably also include the wiki in all the versions.)
This should be a relatively straight forward process once we have a front runner. Enabling searching for a specific version should be a rather simple approach.
Regarding google or some other public search engine, we already use google and they have a relatively easy system that doesn't show adds (and therefore earns them no direct revenue), so I don't really see any conflict.
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