Also, you can see the fruits of our Fridays labour here: Without search improvements: http://archiva.exist.com/quickSearch.action?q=commons+lang
With search improvements: https://maven.atlassian.com/quickSearch.action?q=commons+lang Cheers James On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:39 +1100, Brett Porter wrote: > I visited James today and we came up with this list of things to fix a > bit more urgently (I'll be putting them in JIRA later). > > Already changed: > * remove dependencies/filecontent from the quick search - must not > search for dependencies on commons-lang > * change the default search to AND instead of OR > > Still to look at: > - [ ] improve the search results page > - [ ] remove metadata files > - [ ] merge versions in search results > - [ ] for snapshots, just show SNAPSHOT, not timestamps > - [ ] show hits in the results (this may not be possible or > needed with better results, however) > > - [ ] existing JIRA complaints > - [ ] MRM-732 (tokenizing) > - [ ] MRM-495 (weighting) > - [ ] MRM-609 (windows bug - may be fixed) > - [ ] MRM-933 (hit count, pagination completely busted) > > - [ ] advanced search > - [ ] improve appearance and flexibility, maybe change to > "add term" buttons on the default search > - [ ] class/package search is still flaky > - [ ] might be the analyzer rules, etc. for splitting on > '.' > > - [ ] browse improvements > - [ ] artifact version list should show basic shared project > information rather than having to drill into one version > - [ ] snapshot should go to a page that shows a list of versions > (go to latest, but list previous snapshots) > > Thoughts? > > Cheers, > Brett > > On 14/11/2008, at 11:40 AM, James William Dumay wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > As mentioned on IRC we all agreed that our search feature is a > > little suboptimal. > > > > I would like to propose the following improvements: > > * Search should be more like mvnrepository.com (showing codebase > > growth etc). > > * We should figure out a way of using up stream repository indexes > > to improve search results. > > * Advanced search needs a good rethink - we should probably use a > > filter approach so that you could do bytecode: search results that > > include free text search. > > * UI improvements so that the user experience feels more intuitive. > > > > Discuss! > > > > James > > -- > Brett Porter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ >
