[opensuse-buildservice] BuildService search engines gets unusable
Hello, with increasing number of packages, projects and texts, the search engine gets more and more unusable. For example to find an updated perl, I would enter perl in the search engine. The result is an Timeout error. Also searching for ocaml results in lots of entries. Some suggestions: - Better sorting: - First projects, which match the name exactly. - Second projects, which match name - Third projects, which have name in description. - Allow more control: - Sorting - Matching - Exclusions - ... (whatever) - Cache database/results --> There should be no timeout for "perl" at all. - Allow different display forms: - Only name - Name+short description - Full - Allow inclusion/exclusion of: - home projects - non-published projects - linked projects - linked projects, which have local changes / have no changes - aggregated projects Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:32:35PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
Hello,
with increasing number of packages, projects and texts, the search engine gets more and more unusable.
For example to find an updated perl, I would enter perl in the search engine. The result is an Timeout error. Also searching for ocaml results in lots of entries.
I cannot reproduce the timeout right now, but it takes *very* long for the search to complete. (81 pages ;)
Some suggestions: - Better sorting: - First projects, which match the name exactly. - Second projects, which match name - Third projects, which have name in description. - Allow more control: - Sorting - Matching - Exclusions - ... (whatever)
Yes, that sounds good.
- Cache database/results --> There should be no timeout for "perl" at all.
Indeed, that would be nice.
- Allow different display forms: - Only name - Name+short description - Full - Allow inclusion/exclusion of: - home projects - non-published projects - linked projects - linked projects, which have local changes / have no changes - aggregated projects
Also good ideas. Thank you for the suggestions! Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development
Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:51:46PM +0100, Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:32:35PM +0100, Dirk Stoecker wrote:
Hello,
with increasing number of packages, projects and texts, the search engine gets more and more unusable.
For example to find an updated perl, I would enter perl in the search engine. The result is an Timeout error. Also searching for ocaml results in lots of entries.
I have an example right here. A minute ago, I searched for dkim packages on software.opensuse.org. Found nothing -- never mind, so let's look up postfix to see what's going on there. Searching http://software.opensuse.org/search for postfix gives me 5 pages of results. Only 45 results, but 5 pages, and it is a bit hard to get an overview here. So here are some concrete suggestions: 1) a terse result view would be much more useful in the first place. 2) I'm not sure if listing single (sub-)packages like -devel and -debuginfo really makes sense here. If it does, they should be grouped I guess. 3) There is no changelog. The package changelog would be very helpful. 4) There is no clear version number -- only the one that I (may be able to) "visually" parse from the shown filename. 5) There is name of someone responsible and no way to get in touch 6) The "Go to OBS Project" link is not very helpful if it points into openSUSE 10.3, because all packages there are void. In addition, things like "sort order" "view open bugs", "link to opensuse wiki", "file list" could be quite helpful here. Thanks, Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
with increasing number of packages, projects and texts, the search engine gets more and more unusable.
For example to find an updated perl, I would enter perl in the search engine. The result is an Timeout error. Also searching for ocaml results in lots of entries.
I have an example right here. A minute ago, I searched for dkim packages on software.opensuse.org. Found nothing -- never mind, so let's look up postfix to see what's going on there.
Searching http://software.opensuse.org/search for postfix gives me 5 pages of results. Only 45 results, but 5 pages, and it is a bit hard to get an overview here.
To make one point clear. I talked about the search in BuildService, not software.opensuse.org (Thought many of the notes are valid for both searches). Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org
participants (2)
-
Dirk Stoecker -
Dr. Peter Poeml