[pydotorg-www] wiki linkto: search term is broken

[Radomir Dopieralski]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:36 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Radomir Dopieralski
> <sheep at sheep.art.pl> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:04 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <sheep at sheep.art.pl> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:14 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Radomir,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for looking into this, but it doesn't seem the search is
>>>>>> completely fixed. For example, searching for "Presentation" doesn't
>>>>>> get http://wiki.python.org/moin/PresentationSoftware in results.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any news on that?
>>>>
>>>> No, I didn't find out what is wrong so far.
>>>> I still have a couple of things to check.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the heads up. Upgrading to 1.9.4 (I use
>>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWikiChanges for guessing current
>>> version info) can hopefully make the task easier. From the
>>> http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/56eaf32027f4/docs/CHANGES :
>>>
>>>   * Use logging.traceback to get more information if a indexing filter crashes.
>>>
>>> There is also mention of a workaround against some memory leak in indexer.
>>
>> Yes, I am quite aware about MoinMoin releases, thank you very much.
>>
>> The search is now fixed, I have given up and just rebuild the Xapian index.
>> Unfortunately I didn't manage to find out how and why it got corrupted
>> -- it must have happened too long ago to leave a trace in the logs.
>>
>> I will keep my eyes peeled to try and catch the reason if it ever happens again.
>
> Thanks. Now it works as expected. I wonder if this index has any
> self-diagnostic harness, because IIRC bugs.python.org recently experienced the
> same problem.

There was some thinking about adding a sanity check, but most of the
development is now with MoinMoin2, so it's not certain if 1.9 will see
any larger improvements like that.


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Radomir Dopieralski, http://sheep.art.pl