[Freedombox-discuss] is a distributed search engine (e.g. YaCy) to be part of the FB package?

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:45:31AM -0400, James Vasile wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:08:48 +0200, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Admittedly, the index can get large, but on the hand
> > SSD has more IOPS.
> > 
> 
> The box as shipped will have a relatively small subset of possible
> packages (just as Debian installation has a small subset of the repo's
> packages).  My guess is that distributed search is not likely to be in
> that small subset.  We've always considered search to be somewhat beyond
> the scope of the FreedomBox, largely because search is hard and
> expensive, even in this distributed fashion.
> 
> But like anything else, if the community wants it and builds it,
> anything is possible.  Somebody will package it and folks will manually
> install it on the plugs and prove the software's worth and utility.
> Eventually when we have a config system, others will hook it up and
> we'll end up with a Debian package plus some FreedomBox configuration
> glue.  And then FreedomBoxers will be able to use it.

Happens that I had some spare time yesterday and filled a new page on the
wiki with some of the idea that were discussed on this list about the
configuration mechanism. Just to bootstrap a documentation on this:

http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/BoxConfiguration

Also made a new page describing how owners would do the first
configuration step when getting their brand new FB, to begin to note some
ideas :

http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/FirstHandsOn

And added some brain dump about the user interface as well:

http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserInterface

This notes aren't decisions, just what I was able to remember from the
discussions without reading all the old threads.

bert.