Suggestion: Search box on fedoraproject.org home page

[Andrew Myers]

Hmm another open source project I am involved in might be
useful...http://www.yacy.net

I'll drop in there at some stage...

2008/9/24 Ian Weller <ianweller at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:58:12AM +1000, Andrew Myers wrote:
>> I've been on this list for some time and haven't contributed much :-|,
>> but I do have a suggestion to make..
>>
>> I was trying to find the list of mirrors today and went to
>> http://fedoraproject.org.  From there I had to click "wiki" before I
>> could find the search box.  Since I've used the wiki a fair bit I know
>> that's where the search is, but perhaps not everyone would know that.
>>
>> Is it worth integrating a search box into the side bar or top right of
>> the fpo home page?  If so, I'm happy to have a crack at it myself if
>> someone can point me in the right direction to grabbing hold of the
>> code.
>>
> Thanks for offering :)
>
> From what I remember, the search in MediaWiki isn't exactly what we're
> looking for, and we're looking for a cross-site solution. You might get
> in touch with the infrastructure team on that. They're on
> fedora-infrastructure-list, or in #fedora-admin. IIRC, we're looking for
> something that searches docs.fp.o and the wiki, and other parts of the
> website as necessary (fedorahosted?), with open source technologies.
>
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