Suggestion: Search box on fedoraproject.org home page

[Andrew Myers]

Hi All,

I've been on this list for some time and haven't contributed much :-|,
but I do have a suggestion to make..

I was trying to find the list of mirrors today and went to
http://fedoraproject.org.  From there I had to click "wiki" before I
could find the search box.  Since I've used the wiki a fair bit I know
that's where the search is, but perhaps not everyone would know that.

Is it worth integrating a search box into the side bar or top right of
the fpo home page?  If so, I'm happy to have a crack at it myself if
someone can point me in the right direction to grabbing hold of the
code.

Andrew.

[Ian Weller]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:58:12AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
>  I've been on this list for some time and haven't contributed
> much :-|,
>  but I do have a suggestion to make..
>  
>  I was trying to find the list of mirrors today and went to
>  http://fedoraproject.org.  From there I had to click "wiki" before I
>  could find the search box.  Since I've used the wiki a fair bit I know
>  that's where the search is, but perhaps not everyone would know that.
>  
>  Is it worth integrating a search box into the side bar or top right of
>  the fpo home page?  If so, I'm happy to have a crack at it myself if
>  someone can point me in the right direction to grabbing hold of the
>  code.
>   
Thanks for offering :)

From what I remember, the search in MediaWiki isn't exactly what we're
looking for, and we're looking for a cross-site solution. You might get
in touch with the infrastructure team on that. They're on
fedora-infrastructure-list, or in #fedora-admin. IIRC, we're looking for
something that searches docs.fp.o and the wiki, and other parts of the
website as necessary (fedorahosted?), with open source technologies.

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[Andrew Myers]

Hmm another open source project I am involved in might be
useful...http://www.yacy.net

I'll drop in there at some stage...

2008/9/24 Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:58:12AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
> > I've been on this list for some time and haven't contributed much :-|,
> > but I do have a suggestion to make..
> >
> > I was trying to find the list of mirrors today and went to
> > http://fedoraproject.org.  From there I had to click "wiki" before I
> > could find the search box.  Since I've used the wiki a fair bit I know
> > that's where the search is, but perhaps not everyone would know that.
> >
> > Is it worth integrating a search box into the side bar or top right of
> > the fpo home page?  If so, I'm happy to have a crack at it myself if
> > someone can point me in the right direction to grabbing hold of the
> > code.
> >
>  Thanks for offering :)
>
>  From what I remember, the search in MediaWiki isn't exactly what we're
>  looking for, and we're looking for a cross-site solution. You might get
>  in touch with the infrastructure team on that. They're on
>  fedora-infrastructure-list, or in #fedora-admin. IIRC, we're looking for
>  something that searches docs.fp.o and the wiki, and other parts of the
>  website as necessary (fedorahosted?), with open source technologies.
>
>  --
>  Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com&gt;                  http://ianweller.org
>  GnuPG fingerprint:  E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226  B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36
>  "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet."
>   ~ Douglas Adams
>