On 4/1/20 4:13 PM, Timothée Floure wrote:
Hi,
Jumping in since I saw this at the top of the web list archive. This service is very convenient and I think it would be fairly painful for the community to see it disappear. Since we do not have the capacity to develop + maintain new software, I wonder if the following 'low-tech' approach could work:
- Generate a static page for each package.
- Crawl/Index it with existing search solution such as Yacy [1]
We could even extend this search thing to more Fedora websites if it performs well. I think it might be worth a proof-of-concept, which I can try to build if you're willing to allocate me some server/VM space for testing :-)
I like this idea! I used the packages web app heavily when I was learning to package for Fedora. If the search result redirects to a static page and it is possible to limit what data Yacy crawls, then it would be possible to recreate most of the old packages functionality using a JavaScript framework like Vue. I would like to help if there is a need for any web development.