Don't Waste Time on Fedora Mailing List Archive Searches - Search Engine Broken

[Mark Weaver]

David Curry wrote:
> Matt Florido wrote:
> 
>> David Curry wrote:
>>
>>> Subject thread says it all.
>>> The basis for my assertion is many experiences trying to find 
>>> information in fedora archives.  Today, I made notes of steps in 
>>> trying to find information in   fedora-config-list archives and 
>>> conducting quite a few searches for messages dealing with pup.  I 
>>> asked for searches on all sections, on keywords, on title, and on 
>>> body.  I asked for searches of the entire archive and for searches on 
>>> a couple of individual months.  In every case the result was the same 
>>> - 0 hits.  I searched on pup + yum and again 0 hits on pup with a few 
>>> hits on yum.
>>
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> The Red Hat archive search engine is broken, broken, broken.
>>>
>>
>> I've experienced something similar, but it's not broken.  Try the 
>> extended search or just entering your search query again after it 
>> returns the initial 0 found.
>>
>> Works for me.
>>
>> I found ~2000 hits for fedora-config-list.
>>
> Thanks for the feedback, Matt.  With extended search I got 25 hits, all 
> of which were not relevant to yum or updating packages.  One was a 
> reference to experiences "as a young pup", eniac, altair, etc., several 
> pointed to messages concerning a book entitled "Practical Unix 
> Programming" and the rest contained references to "pup up the volume".  
> Entering the search query again after an initial return of 0 found, 
> returned 0 -- again, and again, and again.
> 
> If Fedora archive searches work for you (sometimes) and for Rahul, but 
> not for me then they are not completely broken -- just random, blatantly 
> unreliable events.

but doesn't the mere fact that you had to go through specific "extra" 
steps to work around the primary search function mean that it is indeed 
broken on some level? broken == doesn't work according to initial design.

-- 
Mark
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