[Mailman-Developers] Mailman search function (was?? Re: Like to participate in GSOC 2013 (GNU Mailman) - Like some ideas proposed in the list (Django, Python))

[Chris Cargile]

FWIW, I'd also like very much if anyone could provide a few lines recap of
the activity on the ModernArchiving topic under "initiatives and proposals"
as I feel my thoughts on searching/archiving tie into the
objectives/requirements listed there:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/ModernArchiving

More concisely, where I have search capability, my goal of integrating more
'robustly' is I think one that will rely upon a channel of communication
being established with the archiving mechanisms, if I understand the mm 2.0
codebase well enough.

It may have been a while since anyone here has spent much time in the
version mm 2.0 code, but would love to start discussing/working with anyone
who's taking that on in v3.0..anyone?


On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Chris Cargile <follybeachris at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have observed the mailman development activities for a while but have not
> chimed in recently.
>
> My initial aim for contributing was to offer input as to the search
> functionality feature request.
>
> In as much as there is a lot to gain from the continual flow of ideas that
> I feel are spawned by my watching and considering the list posts, I find at
> times it is a little arduous of a task to get the fine details I seek on
> specific matters such as the search features' progress (this is intended to
> be as much as compliment as anything, I suppose) ...or that I am grateful
> for a chance to suggest my technique to tackle this 'burden' of organizing.
>
> Whereas, certain resources may lead one to dismissively settle on allowing
> google site-crawlers to work, this technique doesn't work (I'm glad) for
> many, and I'm not sure where things stand regarding search for mailman-
> however, I found Ian
> Hicks<http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/commit-watchers-whatwg.org/>'
> approach (of applying the HT-Dig capabilities to enhance a MM v2.0 instance
> interesting, but perhaps overkill and/or not quite right) but a good
> case-in-point for ideas.
>
> I resolved my need for making 'search' on my lists practically achievable
> but in terms of overall integration into the fabric of mailman code, it is
> insufficient.
>
> If you want to see my search implementation, check out a prototype from me
> on my AWS instance<
> http://ec2-54-224-162-128.compute-1.amazonaws.com/pipermail/mailman/>
> .
>
> Please share your thoughts here or directly to me ;)
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