From kde-i18n-doc Thu Dec 31 14:28:30 2015 From: "Yuri Chornoivan" Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:28:30 +0000 To: kde-i18n-doc Subject: Re: [kde-doc-english] New search engine for docs.kde.org, request for testing Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=145157212905545 =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BD=D0=B5 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:17:= 09 +0200, Luigi Toscano = : > Hi all, > > tl;dr; a request for some testing, see below after the explanation. > > I'm trying to replace the custom search engine on docs.kde.org with a > off-the-shelf solution like Xapian. > Why? Because our search engine - DesktopDig [1] - is really really = > custom, it > was untouched for ages, it requires patching every time a new language= , = > and it > requires certain knowledge for its maintenance that I don't have. = > Instead, > Xapian provides a good set of libraries and tools for this, including = = > Omega, a > ready-to-use search CGI, which is used in production (for example, the= = > Debian > mailing list search[2]). > > The Xapian knowledge gained will be useful in a future search engine i= n > khelpcenter (not the code, python vs C++). > > > Still here? :) > > If you want to try (especially non-latin languages), you can compare t= he = > two > search engines from the testing website. > The current one from the main page here: http://library.kde.org/ > The new one can be reached from: http://library.kde.org/newsearch.php > > > Please check the behavior of the search engine; the omega-based search= = > page > lack the CSS and the graphics of the rest of the website, but it will = be = > added > later. > > I used a custom indexer, a draft is available here: > http://library.kde.org/kdedocs_indexer.py.txt > > And happy new year if the your new year is going to start/just started= ! > > [1] > https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=3Dwebsites%2Fdocs-kde-org.git&a=3Dtree&h=3D= a9d33ea3c89de86371202fa2ef3dbb08b408218f&hb=3D60ef1e16faf3328362b17e1048= d8bad01f168fef&f=3Dcgi-bin%2Fdesktopdig > [2] https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search > > Ciao Hi, The new engine works definitely better and shows the results of search i= n = more adequate and reliable manner (at least for Ukrainian). Many thanks for your work. Best regards, Yuri