[kde-doc-english] New search engine for docs.kde.org, request for testing

[Frédéric Sheedy]

Good work!!

A small thing a found, URL in the new search is "/index.php?..." instead of
the real URL "http://library.kde.org/stable4/..."
Second one look more clean.
Search work fine in French.

Frédéric

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> wrote:

> написане Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:17:09 +0200, Luigi Toscano <
> luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>:
>
>
> 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 in
>> khelpcenter (not the code, python vs C++).
>>
>>
>> Still here? :)
>>
>> If you want to try (especially non-latin languages), you can compare the
>> 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=websites%2Fdocs-kde-org.git&a=tree&h=a9d33ea3c89de86371202fa2ef3dbb08b408218f&hb=60ef1e16faf3328362b17e1048d8bad01f168fef&f=cgi-bin%2Fdesktopdig
>> [2] https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search
>>
>> Ciao
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> The new engine works definitely better and shows the results of search in
> more adequate and reliable manner (at least for Ukrainian).
>
> Many thanks for your work.
>
> Best regards,
> Yuri
>
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