From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 26 14:47:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2438837B400; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FB143E6A; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QLlOY09421; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:47:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g7QLlNE21954; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:47:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7QLlKo21946; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:47:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D6AA1E8.2090302@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:47:20 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Wouter Van Hemel , Michael Lucas , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improved searching for FreeBSD.org web site References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020822220010.00ab2540@pop.atomz.com> <20020823073410.B39333@blackhelicopters.org> <3D663073.40604@centtech.com> <20020823092009.A39787@blackhelicopters.org> <1030113113.208.40.camel@cocaine> <3D6A5630.6050408@centtech.com> <20020826214206.GE6243@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-08-26 11:24 +0000, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>Did we ever come to a conclusion on this thread? Are we looking for >>more information, or a list of "bad things" about the old engine >>that need to be fixed with the new one? >> >>Also, did anyone reply to the atomz people? If so, what was the final word? >> > > Eric, as far as I can see, you've already done a lot of work. IMHO, > you have already passed the difficult part of getting something that > works. The best thing that could be done is to write a design > document of some sort that describes at least: > > a) What the problems with the current search engine are. > b) How you went about solving them. > c) How the new search engine works. > > This looks then like a very serious proposal, and I'm sure nobody will > take it lightly. What do you think? Is something like this feasible? Absolutely. Is there any "sample" or hints I can look at for a design doc? Once I have this doc, should I simply submit it to the list? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message