Re: debbugs extensions

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 03:30, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:

> >> For the records, the part of the search engine which is used inside the
> >> SOAP API was written by me, and brought to debbugs.gnu.org. I've asked
> >> the Debian BTS guys for merging upstream; there hasn't been any positive
> >> answer ever.
> >
> > In the master branch of Debian's debbugs, there are some changes to
> > use an actual database; the main motivation, as far as I understand,
> > is to improve searching. So maybe if we incorporate that stuff the
> > searching can be improved (it's not part of the debbugs that Debian is
> > currently using, I think, which is what I'm currently targetting for
> > rebase).
>
> It's not only about performance. It's also about false hits.

I meant, proposing search API changes on top of the new and improved
database search might be better received than previous proposals.