On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 13:40 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Siggy Brentrup wrote:
In contrast to his suggestions (sth involving google search) I'm aiming at a solution akin to Debian's Xapian powered ML search.
cf http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search
What do you think and is anybody else interested in working on this?
There are patches at <http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/index.html> that integrate the ht://Dig search engine with Mailman's archives. They work well.
The problem with integrating these or some of the other solutions into the source is they require installation of software over which we have no control.
From a Debian point of view this isn't much of a problem, I might create a patched mailman-searchable-archives package that depends on htdig, eventually factoring out common parts to yield:
mailman mailman-searchable-archives
\ /
mailman-common htdig
but it doesn't address concerns about pipermail. MM 3 seems to me to be an opportunity to address all these issues, we might learn from ht://Dig or Xapian (both written in perl and C iirc) to implement an enhanced pipermail.
These are only first thoughts, before deciding which way to go a lot of research is still necessary and I'm open to any suggestions.
Regards Siggy
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