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Emmanuel Oga

8/12/2008 3:55:00 AM

People:

I can't tell you how much I appreciate the significance of
http://rub... site. I'm very grateful to the kind people
maintaining it.

I have one concern, though... have you tried the search feature of the
site? It does not return very significant results. For example, I
searched "state machine" under software/groups category and a whole lot
(and I _mean_ a lot!) of non-relevant results appeared (try it if you
don't believe me :).

Is there anything I can do to improve this? I'm not sure of what's the
software powering rubyforge's. I have not much knowledge about search
engines, but I have successfully implemented the search feature in a
couple of rails applications using ferret and ultrasphinx, so I know
this could work a little better.

But! I have the suspect that a non-ruby application is powering
rubyforge right now.... after looking around for a while I haven't found
which software is running rubyforge. Is it opensource? Can we help
improving it?

Maybe this could be better implemented using a document-oriented
database approach, I'm not sure about this subject though as I have
never implemented such a system.

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3 Answers

Tom Copeland

8/12/2008 11:29:00 AM

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On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Emmanuel Oga wrote:

> People:
>
> I can't tell you how much I appreciate the significance of
> http://rub... site. I'm very grateful to the kind people
> maintaining it.
>
> I have one concern, though... have you tried the search feature of the
> site? It does not return very significant results. For example, I
> searched "state machine" under software/groups category and a whole
> lot
> (and I _mean_ a lot!) of non-relevant results appeared (try it if you
> don't believe me :).
>
> Is there anything I can do to improve this? I'm not sure of what's the
> software powering rubyforge's. I have not much knowledge about search
> engines, but I have successfully implemented the search feature in a
> couple of rails applications using ferret and ultrasphinx, so I know
> this could work a little better.
>
> But! I have the suspect that a non-ruby application is powering
> rubyforge right now.... after looking around for a while I haven't
> found
> which software is running rubyforge. Is it opensource? Can we help
> improving it?

Yup, it's GForge - http://g... - and I think it's basically
using the SQL LIKE keyword to drive the searches :-) . There have
been some discussions about moving away from GForge, but migrating the
current data is a bit of a sticky wicket. To be fair to GForge, we're
using a rather old version of it - the newer versions are probably
better.

Yours,

Tom

Emmanuel Oga

8/12/2008 2:49:00 PM

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Tom Copeland wrote:
> Yup, it's GForge - http://g... - and I think it's basically
> using the SQL LIKE keyword to drive the searches :-) . There have
> been some discussions about moving away from GForge, but migrating the
> current data is a bit of a sticky wicket. To be fair to GForge, we're
> using a rather old version of it - the newer versions are probably
> better.

Ah! probably php... :) Is there any ruby alternative suitable for the
job? If not, is there any way we could help to make the update to a
newer gforge version happen?
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Tom Copeland

8/12/2008 3:00:00 PM

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On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Emmanuel Oga wrote:

> Tom Copeland wrote:
>> Yup, it's GForge - http://g... - and I think it's basically
>> using the SQL LIKE keyword to drive the searches :-) . There have
>> been some discussions about moving away from GForge, but migrating
>> the
>> current data is a bit of a sticky wicket. To be fair to GForge,
>> we're
>> using a rather old version of it - the newer versions are probably
>> better.
>
> Ah! probably php... :)

Right on, yup, it's in PHP.

> Is there any ruby alternative suitable for the
> job?

redmine seems to be the leader at the moment. But the sticky bit is
moving the data over, I think...

> If not, is there any way we could help to make the update to a
> newer gforge version happen?

I just need to set aside some time to try it out. Doing a GForge
upgrade involves running a lot of migrations (more or less), so I want
to make sure nothing breaks horribly...

Yours,

Tom