Re: Organizing the OSCON presence

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: George Essig <george_essig(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Organizing the OSCON presence
Date: 2004-01-21 18:55:31
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.58.0401212151060.15137@ra.sai.msu.su
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George,

I'd appreciate if you improve documentation - make it clear and improve
english. Also, if you could make scripts more user friendly...

Oleg

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, George Essig wrote:

> Oleg,
>
> Yes, I will mention Search-OpenFTS-Crawler. I just installed it. It's awesome. It so nice to
> have and end-to-end solution that uses tsearch2. Search-OpenFTS-Crawler demonstrates features
> like: relevance ranking, word stemming, HTML parsing, and headline generation.
>
> I had some trouble installing it though. In particular, I would improve the INSTALL file for
> Lingua-Stem-Snowball. In step 1, I would include instructions on how install snowball. Include
> something like:
>
> cd /tmp/snowball
> tar -xvzf ./snowball.tgz
> gcc -O -o snowball p/*.c
> Copy or link the executable to a directory in your path.
>
> In step 5, I would include an example that uses the bash shell to set the snowball environment
> variables:
>
> SNOWBALL_SRC=/tmp/snowball
> export SNOWBALL_SRC
>
> SNOWBALL_STEMMER=/tmp/stemmers
> export SNOWBALL_STEMMER
>
> Last, I would comment out the following line in Search-OpenFTS-Crawler-0.4/example/init-crawler.pl
>
> use lib qw (/u/megera/app/fts/test-suite);
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
> --- Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
> > George,
> >
> > probably another example how to use OpenFTS would be
> > creating searchable PostgreSQL documentation I described in
> > Search-OpenFTS-Crawler-0.4.tar.gz ?
> >
> > Search::OpenFTS::Crawler inherits most functions of Search::OpenFTS and
> > adds crawler specific methods, so once installed it's very easy to create
> > searchable collections (on one database). You may download it from
> > http://openfts.sourceforge.net/contributions.shtml
> >
> > Live example:
> > http://mira.sai.msu.ru/~megera/pgsql/
> >
> > Oleg
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, George Essig wrote:
> >
> > > Josh Berkus wrote:
> > >
> > > > Folks,
> > > >
> > > > The submission deadline for OSCON 2004 is just 21 days away.
> > > >
> > > > I know that several people here were planning on presenting. So far we've
> > > > heard from:
> > > >
> > > > George Essig: TSearch2 Presentation
> > >
> > > I still plan on giving a talk on tsearch2. I will submit the proposal to O'Reilly before the
> > end
> > > of the month. Work approved the conference, and Oleg Bartunov, an author of tsearch2, said he
> > > would give me some advice.
> > >
> > > George Essig
> > >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Oleg
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
> > Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
> > Internet: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
> > phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83
>

Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83

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