Wow. Can i try to do this task (aside of GSOC, simply because it's interesting)?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:20 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > Google, Summer of Code, is a very wonderful idea for the > Open Source Community: > > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 > > No doubt many are scheming as to what would be good project ideas. > Many really good ideas come from the rank and file of users. > (Gmane.org is back online)..... > > Those (gifted? fledgling_gifted) often code good ideas directly. > > I think now is the time to have a robust (community) discussion > on what the users of this list think would be good ideas > for GSOC projects, which are Gentoo centric. My experiences with > ALL current search engines, is there is quite a lot of low_quality > results; which may be a direct result of the masses of those > folks trying to learn/use unix/linux/gentoo by poorly formed > google (et. al.) searches. Those low quality efforts statistically > stack up against those few robustly accurate searches (from folks > like the users of this list) so as to contaiminate search engines > by the sheer number of poorly formed search engine efforts. I.E. > it's not the fault of the search engine(?)..... > > So, Naturally, here is my idea. Collectively, if you look at this list > archive and other such gentoo-centric resources, there is a wealth > of good information that traverses our paths, and is then subsequently > burried into the annals of lifeless data, only occasionally pinged by > exasperating google searches, or gleaned from the multitude of records we > each privately maintain. > > So, some sort of tool/app/parser that can glean information from the > various gentoo-centric resources and store the data for later searching > would be useful. Then a variety of experimental front ends could be > tested (or developed anew) to query that data with relevant searches > and very targeted searches. > > By limiting the focus to all things Gentoo, we could serve ourselves > up crudely basic, but highly valuable information specific to the > Gentoo-centric paramenters that one uses for this "in-house" database. > This > effort would mostly priortize the data returned in searches by some > sort of *quality metric*. For example it could be simply that the most > experienced dev would rate a "*100" (times 100) multiplier on the quality > of > their searches. Recognized power users might rate a "*2"5 rating. Ordinary > folks a *1 rating on quality. This system would not even have to be open to > the rank and file internet, except as a source of data returned to search > engines like google, for example. > > Other distros could eventually do the same thing, and then Google could > probe these databases, gaining specific user-community preferences > of excellent quality (accuracy) search-data from folks steeped in all > things Gentoo. > > Basically, a schemea is developed that allows the strongest of the Gentoo > community to radically improve the quality of gentoo-specific searches, > with very little efforts. For the devs and such, it could merely be > a front-end to their own google searches. Folks would not have to > use this front-end, if they do not want to. > > > So, what is your idea for GSOC_2014? > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas > > > >
