On 8/24/09 2:09 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Gregory Maxwellgmaxwell@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