Hi all, tl;dr; a request for some testing, see below after the explanation.
I'm trying to replace the custom search engine on docs.kde.org with a off-the-shelf solution like Xapian. Why? Because our search engine - DesktopDig [1] - is really really custom, it was untouched for ages, it requires patching every time a new language, and it requires certain knowledge for its maintenance that I don't have. Instead, Xapian provides a good set of libraries and tools for this, including Omega, a ready-to-use search CGI, which is used in production (for example, the Debian mailing list search[2]). The Xapian knowledge gained will be useful in a future search engine in khelpcenter (not the code, python vs C++). Still here? :) If you want to try (especially non-latin languages), you can compare the two search engines from the testing website. The current one from the main page here: http://library.kde.org/ The new one can be reached from: http://library.kde.org/newsearch.php Please check the behavior of the search engine; the omega-based search page lack the CSS and the graphics of the rest of the website, but it will be added later. I used a custom indexer, a draft is available here: http://library.kde.org/kdedocs_indexer.py.txt And happy new year if the your new year is going to start/just started! [1] https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=websites%2Fdocs-kde-org.git&a=tree&h=a9d33ea3c89de86371202fa2ef3dbb08b408218f&hb=60ef1e16faf3328362b17e1048d8bad01f168fef&f=cgi-bin%2Fdesktopdig [2] https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search Ciao -- Luigi _______________________________________________ kde-doc-english mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english
