As has been pondered many times (recently by Rich and Sally, among many others), it would be really nice to better help newcomers find the right information at the ASF or our projects. We have one of the industry's leading search tools right here: why aren't we using it, and even better, semi-consistently across apache.org sites that want to?
Is there *sustainable* interest here in ComDev to organize this work? There are a lot of moving bits, most of which need to be done by volunteers (infra typically only promises to maintain core services). So the issue is 1) having a great story why this would be useful, to attract the 2) volunteers to work on each of the parts. - Lucene PMC has a VM already; one hopes they could run an index of some size there already. -- Requires Lucene/Solr experience to configure, setup, and test. - Websites we want to search need to have search code integrated. As @fluxo points out, it's simple to plop a Solr search box somewhere - but harder to make it fit site design, use correct config, etc. - Runbooks and maintenance - this is something that (likely) ComDev or someone not-infra would need to maintain. In particular, if we wanted to add this to apache.org, we'd *really* need to ensure it can get fixed when it breaks. I think a good search index including apache.org and community.a.o would be very valuable to help newcomers find the *right* page where information is stored. The question is, do we have the people to do all the bits to make it happen this year? -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
