Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 20:40:21 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Mike Thompson <mike@atomz.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New search implementation Message-ID: <3DB0B805.AAE7C42F@centtech.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021018174037.00af87e0@pop.atomz.com>
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Since I've been doing lots of search stuff lately, I'd be willing to help with this in any way. I'm not a committer (yet :D), but I don't think that's a requirement. If the official @freebsd.org folks think it's alright, I'd be willing to peruse the logs and such to make sure things look right. I'll also "babysit" this along with my own search efforts and make sure they all come together like they should if that sounds like a good thing. Comments anyone? Eric Mike Thompson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As time permits I've been working on an Atomz Search implementation for the > FreeBSD.org web site. As a co-founder of Atomz and someone who has really > benefited much from the FreeBSD project I thought it would be appropriate > to donate to the FreeBSD organization our search service which normally > sells for many $10,000's a year to large corporations. Unfortunately, my > time is not a free as I would like, but the current results of my efforts > can be found at the following URL: > > http://www.atomz.com/freebsd/ > > At this time I would like to start working with other people involved with > FreeBSD documentation project to help push this search project along. Your > thoughts and comments are welcome, but some help would also be valuable. > > Some notes regarding what I have done so far are: > > 1. This is currently only for the FreeBSD.org English web pages. It does > not include any of the foreign language portions of the site. The foreign > language portions of the site would be relatively easy to implement, but I > would need help constructing search pages and templates from a native > speaker of the language. Are there specific suggestions on what other > languages should be implemented and what would be the best way to go about > this? > > 2. The search implementation doesn't currently include the email list > archives. With nearly a million messages to be indexed it will be a bit of > a project to implement. I'll start looking into more into searching the > email archives once there is a general consensus that the basic search of > the other portions of the web site are looking pretty good. > > 3. The Atomz Search index will be updated nightly at 4 am PST. This will > make sure that the index reflects any changes to the web site on a daily > basis. The reindex time can be changed to another value if desired. > > 4. I'm open to hosting the search form at any location. I placed it on our > www.atomz.com web site because the Atomz IT team makes sure that this site > stays up at all times and it can handle a pretty heavy traffic > loads. However, we can move the search page to anywhere the FreeBSD > documentation team would like it. > > 5. I haven't spent a lot of time tweaking the Atomz Search options for the > site. I would like to grant access to volunteers on the FreeBSD > documentation team access to the search account so that you can verify the > entire site is being properly indexed by looking at the crawl logs. Also, > someone else may find options in Atomz Search that may be useful that I'm > currently overlooking. I don't have a full understanding of how the > FreeBSD documentation project is organized. Are there core people who > would be most appropriate for having access to the FreeBSD search engine or > is really a grass roots volunteer effort? > > 6. I'm open to any and all suggestions with regards to the search > implementation. Atomz Search is a powerful search application and I would > bet we could handle most suggestions made about the search engine. > > I hope that the search engine continues to look interesting to the FreeBSD > documentation project. I'm sorry I haven't been able to jump on this as > quickly as I had hoped, but like most other people having a day job in this > tough economy tends to take priority. > > Thanks, > > Mike Thompson > CTO/Co-Founder > Atomz Corp. > mike@atomz.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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