From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 16 17:22:20 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 CD64E16A49C for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pittgoth.com (pittgoth.com [205.134.163.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C90A13C4C1 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.fbsdsecure.org (ip70-177-190-239.dc.dc.cox.net [70.177.190.239]) (authenticated bits=0) by pittgoth.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6GH62Yd027018 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:06:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) From: Tom Rhodes To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-Id: <20070513132842.50f9c1d5.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070513095511.GA5541@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200705101146.56279.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070510170755.GB1835@zaphod.nitro.dk> <200705101421.16420.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070513095511.GA5541@zaphod.nitro.dk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, jhb@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: , Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:22:20 -0000 X-Original-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:28:42 -0400 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:22:20 -0000 On Sun, 13 May 2007 13:55:13 +0400 "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote: > On 2007.05.10 14:21:16 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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? > > I'm not really up to something like that unless there is strong > support for that... but > > I had something else to do today, so to avoid doing that I got to play > around a bit with Y! Search :-). > > This is just a proof-of-concept, which certainly needs to be tweaked > more etc, but it seems to work: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~simon/search/ > > I know more elaborate solutions has been suggeted, but the advantage > of this setup is that it's rather simple to do. > > Is this the way to go? > > Note: I have to read over the terms a few more times to be sure you > are allowed to embed the search box like that into the site, but I > think it's OK from how I read it. > > -- > Simon L. Nielsen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Tom Rhodes