On 8/24/09 2:09 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Gregory Maxwell<[email protected]> wrote: >> I think everyone would like better search than we currently have >> available. It should be possible to provide a solid search interface >> without increasing the level of exposure. > > I'd like to echo the last point. I'd certainly like to see a decent > search function for the mailing lists. (Though given the number of > sites that already archive some of our mailing lists, even opening > them to Google doesn't seem likely to increase exposure by all that > much.) > > How difficult would it be for someone to set up Lucene (or similar) to > go through the collective mailing list archives and provide some form > of centralized search interface?
It's not hard in theory, just needs an interested party and some elbow grease to replace the horror that is pipermail. :) The existing solutions we've tried (htdig integration) have not been very stable, hence the status quo. In the meantime, the wide availability of searchable archive copies through multiple third-party list aggregation services means most of our lists are *already* searchable via Google etc, so we're not missing much functionality. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
