On 2011-03-29 Pascal wrote: > On 2011-03-29 00:18:54 (-0300), Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote: > > On IRC I saw Pascal Bleser and master Bryen talk about webpin2... > > Pretty cool! I wonder if there is any update on it? I think it's > > worth a nice article on omgsuse.com! > > Yes, but only once it's finished IMHO. > > Given that I am the sole developer on this (and that skills for > developing and tuning search engines is very rare in general -- > yes, it's a very complex topic, don't think general purpose > Google ;)), I really have no idea when it will be ready for > public consumption as it simply depends on the amount of free > time I'll be able to find (and other things being higher > priority or not). > > I don't have that much left to do, actually, but we'll have to > see how it scales, because the number of repositories we have on > build.opensuse.org is just plain insane (over 8000 > repositories). That's all data that has to be pulled from the > internet, parsed (it's XML), and then indexed into the search > engine (Apache Solr). > > I got back to coding on it since a few days, in order to iron > out a first stable version that could at least be put for > testing, opinions, and to see how well it copes with the sick > amount of repositories we have. > > Note that "webpin2" also provides a REST API that is compatible > with the old "webpin1" one, which means that the existing YaST > module as well as the existing command-line query tool will > continue to work as-is. > I will most probably also rewrite the command-line query tool to > use more powerful capabilities of webpin2, and someone will have > to update the YaST module, but where not there yet, > unfortunately.
All this doesn't mean there's no reason to start writing... Getting the word out on new things that are being developed is always cool, even if it might take a while for them to finish. And even if the chance is 1% to get help from someone, every 100 projects we promote, one gets help :D So if someone is looking for a starters job on writing, this is it! So? > cheers
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