Proprietary search engines (was: Fedora Notifications System.)
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote: 3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one? NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a Fedora Solution an applied search engine for the community. and I can add as many collaborators as I want, I can share my code, I can Modify it, it's more opensource that the one that we're already using... Just to make this clear on 3). We grandfathered that in, meaning it is now against policy to do more of it but we didn't remove it because it had historical significance. Though I believe we're in the works to replace the start page with something else. Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora users and contributors should be able to avoid using them altogether, I think that's currently pretty unrealistic. People have questions all the time, and being able to search the whole web for an answer at once is great. Without a web search, one has to do a separate search of each data source (wiki, bug database, mailing lists) of each relevant project, assuming those search features even exist and that it is possible to identify all the relevant projects in advance (harder when searching for work to reuse). -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: Proprietary search engines (was: Fedora Notifications System.)
2010/8/29 Matt McCutchen m...@mattmccutchen.net On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote: 3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one? NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a Fedora Solution an applied search engine for the community. and I can add as many collaborators as I want, I can share my code, I can Modify it, it's more opensource that the one that we're already using... Just to make this clear on 3). We grandfathered that in, meaning it is now against policy to do more of it but we didn't remove it because it had historical significance. Though I believe we're in the works to replace the start page with something else. Interesting. I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora users and contributors should be able to avoid using them altogether, I think that's currently pretty unrealistic. People have questions all the time, and being able to search the whole web for an answer at once is great. Without a web search, one has to do a separate search of each data source (wiki, bug database, mailing lists) of each relevant project, assuming those search features even exist and that it is possible to identify all the relevant projects in advance (harder when searching for work to reuse). -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... With Fedora's engine I'm giving you the chance of having something more opensource and also more specific and useful for the fedora users who want to search things all around the web. -- -Manuel Escudero- Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlev...@googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
