On 2011-03-29 00:18:54 (-0300), Jos Poortvliet
On IRC I saw Pascal Bleser and master Bryen talk about webpin2... Pretty cool! I wonder if there is any update on it? I think it's worth a nice article on omgsuse.com!
Yes, but only once it's finished IMHO. Given that I am the sole developer on this (and that skills for developing and tuning search engines is very rare in general -- yes, it's a very complex topic, don't think general purpose Google ;)), I really have no idea when it will be ready for public consumption as it simply depends on the amount of free time I'll be able to find (and other things being higher priority or not). I don't have that much left to do, actually, but we'll have to see how it scales, because the number of repositories we have on build.opensuse.org is just plain insane (over 8000 repositories). That's all data that has to be pulled from the internet, parsed (it's XML), and then indexed into the search engine (Apache Solr). I got back to coding on it since a few days, in order to iron out a first stable version that could at least be put for testing, opinions, and to see how well it copes with the sick amount of repositories we have. Note that "webpin2" also provides a REST API that is compatible with the old "webpin1" one, which means that the existing YaST module as well as the existing command-line query tool will continue to work as-is. I will most probably also rewrite the command-line query tool to use more powerful capabilities of webpin2, and someone will have to update the YaST module, but where not there yet, unfortunately. cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf