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I got together with the project leads and we finalized some decisions. |
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The site, http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org, is now in it's final state |
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except for the search and donate. |
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The search is going to be implemented using google as a back end as an |
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interim solution. The only free version of google site search that is |
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available to us is the normal one that anyone can use. We are not the |
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right kind of non-profit to get the free, customized search. This means |
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you will be taken out of the gentoo site to a google controlled page. |
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The good news is that it will allow us to do a very comprehensive |
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advanced search page where you can fine grain your search to any of the |
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gentoo web sites. You will be able to search documents by language, |
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forums, developer pages, etc.... We will also hook into the bugs and |
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forum native search engines to further enhance the search. You will be |
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able to specify google or forum search as the search backend when you |
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search the forum. |
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We will be investigating alternative search engines that we can host |
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ouselves so that we have maximum control. I won't be able to get around |
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to that until after the other gentoo sites are migrated to the new |
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design so google will be the default for a while. If anyone wants to do |
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some preliminary research and start submitting suggestions I would |
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appreciate it. |
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I'll be setting up the search over the next week or two so stay tuned. |
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As you can see Aarons reference site has been implemented pretty |
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accurately now. Comments and suggestions are welcome. |
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I've had individual reports from a few key people and can safely say |
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that it renders correctly in all browsers with the exception of IE5 on |
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mac. I decided that it was not used enough to justify the hack it would |
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require to support it and there are alternative browsers for the mac all |
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the way back to OS8.X that don't have outstanding security issues as IE5 |
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does. I hope the few users of this browser will understand. |
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There was a small bug in konqueror that I finally got sorted out, thanks |
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to dangle for being my tester. |
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I'll report back when the search is ready for wide testing. |
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Thanks everybody |
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