From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 28 13: 6: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C0F153FA for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA66647; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:56:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA53730; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:40:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:40:44 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: John Armstrong Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search engine on website Message-ID: <19990728174044.B52655@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from John Armstrong on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:31:54AM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:31:54AM -0700, John Armstrong wrote: > Am I the only one who is pretty annoyed at the online search engine > at www.freebsd.org? It works great but it returns URL's rather then > the document titles that it is searching. This makes it especially > hard for newbies to find the data they are looking for as they have > to page through tons of results to syphon out the data they want. You're not the only one, there's a PR been mentioned about this as well. > 1) Is there a reason it is like this? That's how the software does it. No one's gotten around to fixing it. > 2) If the reason is 'no one has gotten around to it' how can I help? 1. Download the website CVS source repository, using CVSup or CTM. 2. Get comfortable building a local copy of the FreeBSD website on your machine using this source code. 3. Pick up swish (I've used it before myself, it's a good choice), and come up with a configuration file that can be used to index the FreeBSD site -- swish is in the ports tree, so this should work well. 4. Get it working. 5. Submit diffs using send-pr(1). Bug me until I (or Wolfram) install it and get it working. I've been a little hazy on some of the details up there, but that's because I don't want to write a(nother) 300 line e-mail. If you need more specific information though, let me now. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message