Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:56 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:58 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> I desperately need an indexer for help documents in Yelp.  Yelp
> currently has two search backends: one based on Beagle and one
> that basically greps everything every time you search.  Beagle
> seems dead, and the other backend was never really intended to
> be the way forward.
> 
> I had hoped to talk to somebody at the Summit about this, but
> the right people weren't there.
> 
> I get the impression that the focus is more on data storage
> than indexing these days.  I respect what the Tracker folks
> are trying to do, but I just need a good indexer to enable
> full-text search in Yelp.

Surely apps should ship pre-indexed help files? Or at least do the
indexing at install time when installing from tarballs.