According to the ToDo List at: http://live.gnome.org/SysadminToDoList#head-f0c6a308a64a8f5661c76d7077c84d83a4183ea6
the archive indexing is not maintained. Some time ago I proposed to use Google as indexer, and it wasn't considered a good choice. However, we don't have a good solution working yet. So, here I go again. What I propose is to use something like: http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/search/ Advantages: - Public mail archives are already indexed by Google (443.000 pages). - Google is good scoring messages. - Fast. - It's only required to keep updated the list of mailing-lists in the form. The list can get updated by running a simple script in a cron job. - No extra software required => less work of maintenance => less security issues. - It's working *now*. Some possible disadvantages: 1. The results page has ads. 2. The results page is limited in its customization. 3. The form in the result page is not the same as the form proposed. 4. It can't be sorted by other criteria (date, size, thread, size) (1), (2), (3) are easy to fix. GNOME as non-profit organization can apply for a Public Search Service for free[1], place where is possible to custom all the result page. For my example I just used a Free Google search account. (4). Namazu can do it. But, it can be partially solved with a couple of tips or adding other combobox. Some examples: - If I'm looking for a message about 'evolution' that I rememeber was published in march in calendar-list; just I would ask for 'evolution march' choosing 'calendar-list' from the combobox. - If I'm looking for a message published by Harish about dbus in evolution-hackers; then I choose 'evolution-list' and write 'harish dbus'. Why do we need a "sorted" criteria when the results are reduced? The only missing stuff will be "sorted by size", that exists with namazu nowadays. In my personal case, it's faster searching an email in mail.gnome.org using a custom google than namazu. [1] https://services.google.com/publicservice/login -- Germán Poó Caamaño http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/ Concepción - Chile _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
