[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Remove website search, just use google

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 15:29 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:25:52AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > I would, however, suggest a slightly different implementation than
> > what you have here, where using the search bar would still send you
> > to https://libvirt.org/search.php?query=X, and that page would
> > contain three links:
> > 
> >   * "Search libvirt.org"
> >     https://google.com/search?q=site:libvirt.org+X
> > 
> >   * "Search the libvirt wiki"
> >     https://wiki.libvirt.org/index.php?search=X
> > 
> >   * "Search the libvir-list mailing list archives"
> >     https://google.com/search?q=site:redhat.com/archives/libvir-list+X
> > 
> > The advantages of this approach are that existing links pointing to
> > search.php will keep working, people will be able to search the
> > mailing list archives as well (this is a feature the current search
> > implementation is supposed to have) and search the wiki without
> > having to go through an extra hoop, and finally that extending the
> > search interface to include more sources would become as simple as
> > adding another generated link to the page.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Sounds reasonable, though I don't think it should be a search.php page.
> It can be done with a plain search.html page and small amount of
> javascript.
> 
> Avoiding php has the benefit that it works for locally installed docs
> from the RPM.

I'm not a big fan of requiring JavaScript for websites, but on the
other hand it looks like the search function is the only bit of PHP
code we have in the repository so I'm okay with the idea of dropping
it.

That said, while I'd be perfectly comfortable implementing the idea
above in PHP, I wouldn't quite know where to start for a JavaScript
version. Dan, would you be willing to write that code yourself?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization