Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu <at> fuuzetsu.co.uk> writes: > On 07/01/14 14:35, Vladimir Romanov wrote: > > Wow. Can i try to do this task (aside of GSOC, simply because it's > > interesting)?
Well, it's just a "raw idea" that needs quite a bit of further thought. Basically, you need a mentor and a project to work under GSOC-2014. You might as well get paid for this effort, if that appeals to you. If not, and you have time, you can develop something like this on your own. Set simple goals and use a small testbed. Once you roll something out a few times, invite others to test drive it. It probally lead to google taking an interest in your work, if you spin some good ideas into a usable codebase. It might also be appealing to reseach what programming languages/databases would be good to use. You could even further focus the effort not just gentoo-centric but something like gentoo-centric-security.... Surely you can "take ownership" of the idea, recraft it, or modify (fork) and applicable (?) existing code base as you like. Who knows, search is a hot topic. You just might land a gig at your own "startup" should the winds of favor drift your way..... > Personally I think this project is a bit too convoluted, requires a > lot of community effort and becomes fairly useless should people > decide to stop contributing to it for some reason. I think the effort > would be better spent updating the Wiki with the findings on the > mailing lists. Google is Good Enough™ with finding the information you > need. It does tend to take some time but I don't think it's so much > that it justifies the amount of effort that'd have to go into the > project. I disagree with you. Nobody has to be forced to use it. The heart of the idea is that some (more experience users) form better (google) search syntax than others, particularly when looking deeply into searching for relevant material. Often one does not need a fully, concise, current web page on exactly what they are seeking. It is only after hours and hours of refined searches that folks sometimes find key pieces of information via search engines. Besides, google is full of "noise" even with keenly, well formed searches, as we all know. Furthermore, the time has come form users to be "more in control" of their own searches, as google seeks to satisfy too many masters, imho. It is merely and idea to leverage the expertise of some folk in deep searches, who wish to share their their search (kunfu) with others, via this project idea. Those experts would merely have to use the "frontend" to search for things, allowing the frontend to do it's work transparently. If you are search for someting sensitive, then just do not use the frontend. I do agree with you about the need to work on the gentoo-wiki, as I myself have a few project in that vain, in early stages..... But a frontend-tool/app to make our collective gentoo searches, more energized, is an interesting, entrepreneurial idea, methinks.... ymmv.
