Re: [gentoo-user] GSOC discussion

[Vladimir Romanov]

Wow. Can i try to do this task (aside of GSOC, simply because it's
interesting)?


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:20 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:

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> Google, Summer of Code, is a very wonderful idea for the
> Open Source Community:
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> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
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> No doubt many are scheming as to what would be good project ideas.
> Many really good ideas come from the rank and file of users.
> (Gmane.org is back online).....
>
> Those (gifted? fledgling_gifted) often code good ideas directly.
>
> I think now is the time to have a robust (community) discussion
> on what the users of this list think would be good ideas
> for GSOC projects, which are Gentoo centric. My experiences with
> ALL current search engines, is there is quite a lot of low_quality
> results; which may be a direct result of the masses of those
> folks trying to learn/use unix/linux/gentoo by poorly formed
> google (et. al.) searches. Those low quality efforts statistically
> stack up against those few robustly accurate searches (from folks
> like the users of this list) so as to contaiminate search engines
> by the sheer number of poorly formed search engine efforts. I.E.
> it's not the fault of the search engine(?).....
>
> So, Naturally, here is my idea. Collectively, if you look at this list
> archive and other such gentoo-centric resources, there is a wealth
> of good information that traverses our paths, and is then subsequently
> burried into the annals of lifeless data, only occasionally pinged by
> exasperating google searches, or gleaned from the multitude of records we
> each privately maintain.
>
> So, some sort of tool/app/parser that can glean information from the
> various gentoo-centric resources and store the data for later searching
> would be useful. Then a variety of experimental front ends could be
> tested (or developed anew) to query that data with relevant searches
> and very targeted searches.
>
> By limiting the focus to all things Gentoo, we could serve ourselves
> up crudely basic, but highly valuable information specific to the
> Gentoo-centric paramenters that one uses for this "in-house" database.
>  This
> effort would mostly priortize the data returned in searches by some
> sort of *quality metric*. For example it could be simply that the most
> experienced dev would rate a "*100" (times 100) multiplier on the quality
> of
> their searches. Recognized power users might rate a "*2"5 rating. Ordinary
> folks a *1 rating on quality. This system would not even have to be open to
> the rank and file internet, except as a source of data returned to search
> engines like google, for example.
>
> Other distros could eventually do the same thing, and then Google could
> probe these databases, gaining specific user-community preferences
> of excellent quality (accuracy) search-data from folks  steeped in all
> things Gentoo.
>
> Basically, a schemea is developed that allows the strongest of the Gentoo
> community to radically improve the quality of gentoo-specific searches,
> with very little efforts. For the devs and such, it could merely be
> a front-end to their own google searches. Folks would not have to
> use this front-end, if they do not want to.
>
>
> So, what is your idea for GSOC_2014?
>
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas
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