[p2pu-dev] Search in Lernanta

[John Britton]

I agree Jose, don't add search to the API until it's a core functionality
of the site.
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On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys, good points. I've no experience with external services and
> wouldn't mind to have a go at adding that but it's going to take a
> while so my question right now is... shall we wait till 'search' is a
> core functionality in Lernanta to add it to the API? We can continue
> with the other tasks for the API for now. Wouldn't want to start a
> bunch of projects but finish none! :)
>
> If we want to add search, it will have to be implemented somehow, and
> I agree with you that some(a lot of) thought should go into designing
> that instead of just choosing the first library we find. It would be a
> great project for Berlin!
>
> cheers,
> José
>
>
> On 5 April 2012 15:21, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:
> > Good point Zuzel. Do you have any experience using an external indexing
> > service? I know reddit uses indextank and have read good things about it:
> > http://indextank.com/
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:29 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> and we will need to check the performance (indexing+search) of any
> library
> >> we choose -- I have bad past experiences on how slow some of the
> >> alternatives available with django are when working on production. If
> the
> >> setup works nicely it will help a lot with content discovery on the
> site.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >>     Zuzel
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:30 AM, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hey Jos,
> >>>
> >>> Right now there's nothing special about the P2PU site search, it's just
> >>> using the Google index. Now that we've decided on separating content
> from
> >>> groups we have a better idea of our underlying model structure and I
> think
> >>> it will be pretty stable after the current changes..
> >>>
> >>> Once those changes are made, adding a search that is a bit more aware
> of
> >>> our structure (challenge, group, peer, etc) would be a good idea. We've
> >>> talked about using Lucene / Solr in the past but haven't gotten to it
> yet.
> >>> Definitely a project a volunteer could start working on any time.
> >>>
> >>> In the meantime I've created a placeholder for it in the
> >>> backlog: https://trello.com/c/anrdkvQM
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> John Britton
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hey guys,
> >>>>
> >>>> just checking, is there any search library (the likes of haystack:
> >>>> http://haystacksearch.org/ ) being used anywhere in Lernanta?
> >>>> I see a custom search app but all I can see it doing is a redirection
> >>>> to the search page (that uses Google underneath?).
> >>>>
> >>>> If not, any thoughts on how useful it would be? I could add it in as
> >>>> part of the API search and it could be extended to the main app after
> >>>> that if needed... would like to know what you guys think.
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> José
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