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

[James Vasile]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:50:23 +0200, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
> 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.
> 

Nice work.  I'm going to give the working group discussion another day
or two to settle, then we'll form those groups and I imagine config and
UX will be big discussion items.