A few quick thoughts –
* There should be a link documenting the search language. Are there Booleans allowed? Is “stemming” automatic? Do quote characters do anything? Is proximity searching available? Regular expressions? What columns are searched? License? Version? Author? * Immediate feedback of hits as you type is “nice”. IMO suggested completion of search times is nicer. * Browsing alphabetically by picking a letter provide little to no value * Full detail of hits in columnar format is preferred over “cards” Still lurking myself but loving the improvements…. Go Guix, ~Malcolm From: Guix-devel <guix-devel-bounces+mec=stowers....@gnu.org> on behalf of Daniela Lura <danielalu...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 1:50 PM To: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org> Subject: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages CAUTION: This email was received from an External Source Hello everyone, This is Danjela, the Outreachy intern at the Guix Data Service. Taking into consideration the suggestion made in this thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00096.html, my mentor, Christopher Baines suggested me to write a script that serves a search page for packages using the search functionality within the Guix Data Service, https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages?search_query=git&field=version&field=synopsis&after_name=&limit_results=100. The prototype page can be accessed through a test version of the Guix website that Chris deployed: http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search I'd like to know if you find the page useful so that I can hopefully start working on incorporating the search functionality into this page: https://guix.gnu.org/packages/. Best Regards, Danjela
