[Mailman-Developers] Google Summer of Code: Integration of Search Code

[Shayan Md]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Shayan Md <mdoshayan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org
> >wrote:
>
> >> And (2) search and retrieval may
> >> do a *lot* of message access, for example if you want to do data
> >> mining (see Ana from Spain's thread).
>
> > Isn't it the purpose of index?
>
> Yes, of course, but possibly it's not good enough.  Yes, when you know
> what "features" (eg, author)  you want to index.  Then you can use an
> online algorithm, indexing messages as they come in.  However, many
> data mining methods are adaptive, meaning that they discover features
> of the corpus over time (eg, through "Bayesian" algorithms) and then
> wish to go back and reindex or cross-reference previously examined
> messages based on more accurate feature specifications.
>
> As I say, if that's not your purpose, then you don't have to worry
> about it.  But in some cases it will matter (eg, pretend you're
> Google, not just a GSoC student!)
>

Okay then, can you please tell me how we can put this search code in best
use of mailman3? I have a proposal to write, I am getting unsure of things
day by day. Can you also tell me who is the mentor of this project?

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