#2161: make ET mailing lists searchable ---------------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Type: enhancement Status: new | Priority: minor Milestone: | Component: Cactus website Version: development version | Keywords: ---------------------------------+---------------------------- Right now there is no explicit search field for the Einstein Toolkit mailing lists. Google apparently indexes them.
At the ET meeting at GeorgiaTech in 2018 it was suggested that a FAQ as well as the ability to search the mailing list would be useful.
Such a functionality should be added to the ET wiki and ET website respectively.
Something like this: {{{ <form action="https://www.google.com/search" class="searchform" method="get" name="searchform" target="_blank"> <input name="sitesearch" type="hidden" value="example.com"> <input autocomplete="on" class="form-control search" name="q" placeholder="Search in example.com" required="required" type="text"> <button class="button" type="submit">Search</button> </form> }}} seems to work and one can limit to particular lists by setting site to something like {{{site:lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users}}}
#2161: make ET mailing lists searchable -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Owner: (none) Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus website | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Changes (by Roland Haas):
* status: new => review
Comment:
I have added such a search button (though one can leave out the actual "Search" button if desired) to https://www.einsteintoolkit.org/support.html
Please have a look and comment.
#2161: make ET mailing lists searchable -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Owner: (none) Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus website | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------
Comment (by Steven R. Brandt):
Yes, this is reasonable. Maybe clarify that the search is for the mailing list.
Would it make sense to also have the ability to search the website?
#2161: make ET mailing lists searchable -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Owner: (none) Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus website | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------
Comment (by Roland Haas):
That sounds like a goo idea, yes. That would help finding information since we (unfortunately) do not have a site index of similar where one could see all available pages. Would you be ok if I added the search box to the top level menu bar (not sure how well that works with the mobile view of the pages though).
#2161: make ET mailing lists searchable -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Owner: (none) Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus website | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------
Comment (by Roland Haas):
There's a search entry field in the navbar in branch rhaas/navsearch but I do not know how to arrange things such that the text in the search field is aligned with the baseline of the text outside.
#2161: make ET mailing lists searchable -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: Roland Haas | Owner: (none) Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus website | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+---------------------------------
Comment (by Roland Haas):
While the current search box works, there is a bit a of a lag since one has to wait for Google to index the website. The newest entries Google finds seem to be from 2018.
"Proper" ways of providing a searchable archive are discussed here https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20make%20the%20archives%20searchable which recommends the same service that the mailman mailing list itself uses: https://www.mail-archive.com/ which in turn requires that one signs up archive@mail-archive.com to the list to be archived. Old emails can be imported by contacting the admins and providing mbox file(s) or links to the existing archive (https://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#import our archive is http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/).
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