From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 19:26:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BFD16A400; Thu, 10 May 2007 19:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CD713C447; Thu, 10 May 2007 19:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4AJQM5F002214; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:26:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:21:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705101421.16420.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 10 May 2007 15:26:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/3225/Thu May 10 04:08:21 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The search box on www.freebsd.org.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:26:31 -0000 On Thursday 10 May 2007 01:07:57 pm Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2007.05.10 11:46:56 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > SUCKS/BLOWS CHUNKS/etc. > > > > Really, it's bad. I just typed in 'logo' to find the page about logo usage, > > and it returned 0 results, not even http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html. That's > > exceedingly lame. Its worse than having no search box at all because people > > will try to _use_ it and then get frustrated. It should either be killed, or > > it should be replaced with something that actually _works_ (probably it > > should make use of Y!, Google, or Rambler.ru something to do the search). > > I think most people agree with that, the problem is that it takes some > time to get right and there currently aren't that many active doc > committers since they over time seem to gravitate towards src... > > doc are unfortunatly not as good as src, and even more ports, at > getting new people. Then perhaps we should at least turn it off for now until we can fix it? -- John Baldwin