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Re: Is the mailing list search function broken?

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2004-12-29 16:59:37 CET

John Peacock wrote:
> Matthew L Daniel wrote:
>> You mean to tell me that you consider it a Good Idea(tm) to purposefully
>> allow a broken search form to live on tigris.org? Thankfully, I thought
>> to check some of the well-known places for mailing list mirrors
>> otherwise I never would have found the solution to my problem.
>
> Don't tell anyone I said so, but I think the poor list search tool on
> tigris.org is an example of the "not invented here" syndrome. Rather
> than use some other method to search the archives (for example, one that
> actually works), the tigris.org lists are indexed/searched using a
> project also hosted on tigris.org itself.
>
> I complained about it one time and was basically told "if the search
> engine is so bad, why don't you help fix it instead of complaining about
> it." I suspect that the lousy search engine problem will exist as long
> as Subversion is hosted on tigris.org. Not much point in complaining
> about it as long as this attitude exists...

It's not about an attitude. It's about the fact that the software running
tigris.org is a pre-packaged suite, which does not permit much in the way of
code customizations, since they get wiped out when an upgrade occurs.

The subversion developers, even the collab.net ones, recommend using
non-tigris.org archives (see the links page to find them).

Max.

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