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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
  • 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

Huzaifa (in progress)
Huzaifa (in progress)
Allen (in progress)
Allen (in progress)

References

Trac (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1055)