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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: robots.txt in quickgit.kde.org
From:       Thomas_Lübking <thomas.luebking () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-12-28 19:15:30
Message-ID: 3a7de858-96f8-4232-837e-3bff97b0338b () gmail ! com
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On Montag, 28. Dezember 2015 18:09:32 CEST, Kevin Funk wrote:

> Are you aware that not even every KDE developer knows about 
> LXR? I constantly have to tell people about it.


Yes, and I'm as well aware of the "if it's not in google, it doesn't exist" \
phenomenon, BUT: that's not gonna work.

If you search for QComplicatedClass, you'll find the Qt API docs, maybe some bug and \
most likely some stackoverflow entry - not a token in some thousand lines of code \
(leaving aside that mindless "i copy what I don't understand" is not the best of all \
approaches) - that will be on page [where no one has gone before]

> Now consider someone outside of KDE even, trying to figure out where 
> KAwesomeClass is defined

But you already know it exists?


As mentioned I don't care, but for devs, one should ensure they get aware of \
lxr.kde.org - that's *far* better than having them enter "m_foo" into google and \
click until they find a result in KDE.

The idea that someone finds a solution to his problem in the KDE sources is a bit far \
off to me.


No idea what it would take, but ideally google would simply forward lxr.kde.org when \
you search for "kde" and something else.

Stillshrug,
Thomas

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