From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 28 20:36:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ice.cream.org (ice.cream.org [195.8.71.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2E5A37B42C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3240 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2000 03:35:59 -0000 Received: from ice.cream.org (HELO cream.org) (195.8.71.30) by ice.cream.org with SMTP; 29 Sep 2000 03:35:59 -0000 Content-Length: 2092 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 04:36:14 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: "Jason C. Wells" Subject: Re: Assessing Search Engine Issues Cc: core@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Sep-00 Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Nik Clayton wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:18:50AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> It might do, if the benefits outweigh the costs. The cost, basically, >> is that the existing mirrors have to be able to duplicate it easily, and >> it needs to be as simple as possible to set up. That would basically >> mean putting the site infrastructure tools in to the ports tree (where >> they're not already there) and coming up with a list of 7-10 things that >> a new web mirror has to do. > > I don't think the mirrors have to change. I would rather implement a > systew where they don't. Yeah, it was my understanding that the mirrors don't currently have anything to do with searching the web site or the mail archives. I know that the form on www.uk.freebsd.org/search certainly just points back to CGI installed on www.freebsd.org Any new solution could have exactly the same interface as far as the mirrors are concerned, all they would have to do is link back to www.freebsd.org (or search.freebsd.org as Jordan suggested) as they do at present. Therefore, whatever is implemented to search the archives and web site only needs to be installed and configured once, on this central server. > In my mind all of the websites and multinational mirrors stay completely > unmolested. All of the various mail archives stay completely unmolested. > The search host merely searches and indexes and that is it. I totally agree that none of the mirrors need change anything, but if all of the searching is done by one central host why can we not change how that searching is done? And how the archive is stored? Perhaps having the entire archive in tables in a MySQL server is a good idea, because of the flexability that SQL would give us. I'm not saying that's "The Way To Go", I'm just saying that it can be implemented in any way we want. Subject to that little question of the resources that are available. Or have I completely misunderstood something? :-) --- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message