Re: What about non-DB articles?

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

"Aaron D. Turner" wrote:

> Question for everyone, what are we going do regarding non-DB articles.
> Things like
> 
> LDP
> OSS Web Pages on line (Apache SAMBA, etc)
> man pages (we can use man2html for this)
> /usr/doc (we can use text2html for this)

Is this stuff *really* necessary?  There are plenty of other ways to
search
this stuff.  KDE and GNOME implement local doc searching (I think...)

We probably shouldn't worry about it until our main site is live.

> One thing that I definately want to do for the LDP is clean it up.
> Basically do a search at linuxkb.cheek.com or LinuxCare on something you
> know to be in the LDP.  "DNS" is good.  You'll get over 10 hits for the
> DNS-HOWTO because you have an index page, and a bunch of sub-page- each
> one generates a hit.  Pain in the arse for the user.  What we need to do
> is put all the pages in one page, so they only get one hit for the DNS
> HOWTO.

Thought here:  When you search for a word in the LDP, you get a list of
HOWTOs where your search was found.  Under that, you get a list of all
the sections and subsections that match your search.  Sort of a drill
down thing like our DB search page.  I'm not sure how easy that would be
to implement.

> Another thing I desperately want to do is us host all the data ourselves.
> This means mirroring the LDP and other resources locally.  Three
> reasons for this:
> 
> 1) Not reliant on some other site to be up
> 2) Faster indexing for htdig
> 3) We have better control of content.
> 
> Ideally we'd sync once a week to a holding area and have it report on the
> pages that have changed/new.  That way we can go over whats changed and
> weed out broken links etc before migrating it to production.

OK...