Re: Last gasp

Jay Levitt <jay(dot)levitt(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> No meaningful search, eh? Works for me.
>
> Redmine searches return partial-word matches, and there's no way to
> disable that. Searching for "test" finds "latest". To me, that's
> broken.

Well, I believe one can plug in a different search engine, like lucene
or xapian. However it doesn't look like some one already did (for
ticket/wiki history, but there's xapian search plugin[1] to index attachments.)

> Also, the UI is very 5 years ago; e.g., "compare revisions" uses the
> same columns-of-radio-buttons approach as MediaWiki. If the goal is a
> tool to reduce friction and increase involvement, you want a smoother
> UX.

Nothing that could not be tweaked with a plugin or core code
modification here either. Not sure about the magnitude of the effort
required, though.

--
Alex

[1] https://github.com/xelkano/redmine_xapian