On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Karl Fogel<[email protected]> wrote: > Martin Pool <[email protected]> writes: >> In my experience this is a non-issue: you search google with 'distcc >> connection refused' and it searches the list archives plus more >> distribution-specific data or third-party data than will ever be >> collected on the project site. Google will infer the cross-site >> links. > > Site search is still important because it's a natural bound that the > user might try to use: "I know what I'm looking for is in the project's > Launchpad pages, because I've seen it before or I was told it's there -- > now I just have to find it". > > This is why virtually every serious site on the Internet offers > site-bound search :-). (Most sites aren't a collection of > semi-independent projects like Launchpad. In Launchpad, project-bound > search is probably the analog to site-bound search everywhere else.)
I agree about the analogy. However, Launchpad could offer something more than that. In theory, it could also offer search within a project and all of the dependencies of that project (nicking the dependency information from Ubuntu). Or some other way of searching within a set of related projects. People will always want to search within one project, but I think we can offer more. jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
