Infrastructure/Search

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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 (no Java)
• 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):

1. Investigate and evaluate existing open source search engines
2. Select candidate software
3. Create public test instance of candidate software
4. Test for functionality, performance, and impact (re-evaluate, if necessary)
5. Create capacity and deployment plans
6. 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

• HtdigSearch

Huzaifa (in progress)

• SphinxSearch

Huzaifa (in progress)

• MWSearch

Not suitable.

• MWSearch requires EzMwLucene to be running on the servers to be searched. EzMwLucene is Java, therefore not preferable.
• MWSearch is a client to EzMwLucene, which is wiki-only, therefore MWSearch is wiki-only.

• RigorousSearch

Allen (in progress)

Public Testing

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Deployment Plan

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