Project Sponsor
Name: Mike McGrath
Fedora Account Name: mmcgrath
Group: Infrastructure
Infrastructure Sponsor: mmcgrath
Secondary Contact info
Name: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
Fedora Account Name: huzaifas
Group: Infrastructure
Name: Allen Kistler
Fedora Account Name: akistler
Group: Infrastructure
Name: Keiran Smith
Fedora Account Name: affix
Group: Infrastructure
Project Info
Project Name: Search Engine Enhancement
Target Audience: All users of Fedora web sites
Expiration/Delivery Date (required): F13
Description/Summary: Fedora needs a search engine.
Requirements:
- Crawl the web sites (wiki and non-wiki)
- Search the web sites (wiki and non-wiki)
Preferences:
- Python-based
- Programmable keywords to have control over what pages get displayed for certain keywords
- XML or library interface so other applications can use it
Project plan (Detailed):
- Investigate and evaluate existing open source search engines
- Select candidate software
- Create public test instance of candidate software
- Test for functionality, performance, and impact (re-evaluate, if necessary)
- Create capacity and deployment plans
- Deploy
Specific resources needed
- Public Test for testing candidate software
- Permanent home(s) for deployment
- Web server(s)
- Database server(s)
Software Investigation and Evaluation
- Huzaifa (in progress)
- Huzaifa (in progress)
- Allen (in progress)
- Allen (in progress)
References
Trac (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1055)