Hi guys,

I started working on ticket #77 (Moin1.6 related), and while searching for the current additions to the wiki, i came across with this:

New Features: * Added Xapian (see http://xapian.org/) based indexed search code. To use this: * Install xapian-core and xapian-bindings on your machine. We used 0.9.4, but newer code should hopefully work, too. * cfg.xapian_search = True * Execute this to build the index: $ moin ... index build # indexes pages and attachments $ moin ... index build --files=files.lst # same plus a list of files You should run those commands as the same user you use for your wiki, usually this is the webserver userid, e.g.: $ sudo -u www-data moin --config=... --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ \ index build --files=files.lst * New searches: - LanguageSearch: language:de - CategorySearch: category:Homepage - MimetypeSearch: mimetype:image/png (for attachments/files) - DomainSearch: domain:underlay or domain:standard - History Search: available in advanced ui Note: Some currently only available when Xapian is used * New config options: xapian_search 0 enables xapian-powered search xapian_index_dir None directory for xapian indices (can be shared for wiki farms) xapian_stemming 1 toggles usage of stemmer, fallback to False if no stemmer installed search_results_per_page 10 determines how many hits should be shown on a fullsearch action xapian_index_history False indexes all revisions of pages to allow searching in their history

Do we want to try this ? if so it needs to be packaged and added to extras. According to xapian.org download page "Fabrice Colin has built RPM packages for Fedora Core 6 http://xapian.org/RPM/fc6/ - there are binary packages (for i386, x86_64, and ppc) and source RPMs.", but since its not on our repos, i prefer not to use it until so.

Also i've created a page in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/MoinDev so that we can keep track of our work, and requests that other teams might have.

Thanks, Paulo