Hello, Currently the search result order is directly provided by MySQL. After giving it a look a few weeks ago I concluded this would require to actually implement the search post-processing (and not just modifying something that exists) (sorry for not answering at that time).
I don't plan to work on it right now personnaly, but I added it to our priority list, which we point people to when they offer help with Savannah. https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CurrentTasks -- Sylvain On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:05:52PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I sent this message three times to savannah-hackers but did not get a > response. So I'm sending it to you personally. > > > Is someone working on this? > > > > When I connect to savannah.gnu.org with a browser and enter "emacs" in > the search box, the first package it finds is not Emacs. I think that > is a bug. > > Matches of the specified string in package names should come first, > and the shortest matches should come first among the matches. > That way, if you enter the exact name of a package, that package > will always come first in the list you get.
