Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Card

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 2, 2004, at 1.15 AM, glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> What I meant was, there's a search function on the bnomic.org page 
> that has, as options,
> searching on rules, or proposals, or CFIs, or "all documents".  I'd 
> like the cardlist to be
> included in the "all documents" part.
>
> Alternately, if everything's on the wiki now, including the rules, 
> proposals and CFIs, I
> suppose I could just search the wiki...especially since the search 
> function may be searching
> the database rather than any files.

Ok, so the fulltext search and the historical documents don't exactly 
work as they're supposed to, because I haven't had time to fix them. 
Basically, rules and CFIs are being stored in one giant table in a 
database on bnomic.org. This table also holds historical proposals, but 
starting last nweek, I've been trying to use a new proposal tracking 
system that keeps them elsewhere; in fact, it keeps them on an entirely 
different server, namely nomic.net. bnomic.org is Dave's server, 
nomic.net is Joel's, and getting one of them to search the other would 
be a real pain in the ass.
	As it stands, therefore, the fulltext search searches current rules 
and CFIs, and historical proposals prior to nweek 65. The wiki search 
will turn up slightly out-of-date Card definitions, newer proposals, 
and some recent CFIs, as CFIs are being moved to the wiki.
	Cards were never searched by anything before the wiki; indeed, they 
weren't even displayed all in one place prior to the page I just put 
up.

So here's what I plan to do about this, but bear in mind that this is 
dependent on my having time to do it between observations, etc.

I hope to finish installing MoinMoin on bnomic.org. I think this is 
done, but there are a few last things I should check.

Once that's there, I'm going to copy everything from the wiki at 
nomic.net to the wiki at bnomic.org. This will put all data on one 
server, making searching much easier.

I want to rewrite a lot of the storage stuff completely, because I 
believe it could be much easier to use if somebody sat down and 
reworked it. Specifically, I'm going to put proposals, rules, and CFIs 
all in different tables, and write a lot of scripts to automate the 
filing. Ideally, somebody else will volunteer to do things like 
maintain a list of current CFIs using whatever methods they feel like, 
and then send the CFIs to me as XML documents once they're resolved, 
and I'll put them in the archives pretty much automatically.

Finally, once that's all in place, I can update the searching programs 
to search any or all of the available document tables, including cards, 
etc.

In the meantime, things are going to be a little bit choppy. I'll be 
doing my best to keep the links from the main page up-to-date, so if 
there's an obvious place for the information to be, there should be a 
link to it from the main page (by which I mean www.bnomic.org, which 
you'll be redirected to if you go to www.nomic.net). I'd also be happy 
to periodically post anything you're interested in knowing, and look up 
anything you want me to find out.

--
Wonko

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, 
expressed in M&Ms: 250
     -Harper's Index, October 1989

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