On 8/24/09 2:09 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Gregory
Maxwell<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> 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