Re: A few random thoughts

[Greg Harvey <Greg dot Harvey at thezone dot net>]

thi <ttn@mingle.glug.org> writes:

> Greg Harvey writes:
> 
>  > 2) The guile website, the projects list, etc...: what's missing? [...]
> 
> guile refbot!  it should monitor discussion list and followup to queries
> by doing intelligently summarized searches of the archive (and project
> list).
> 
> could something like http://www.red-bean.com/guile/GN.html be
> autogenerated, i wonder...

Probably not (though I'm no expert on nlp, so maybe it is possible to
get the relevent bits out of an article automatically; I wouldn't bet
on it). I think what this amounts to is having a better search for the
mailing list archives (and *a* search for the project-list... due to
limitations of the current hosts, you have to do ALT-F ;); I seem to
recall that there are a few good indexers available (glimpse springs
to mind, but I'm sure I remember licensing issues with it). I wonder
if any have the ability to expand abbreviations, so that gc would be
found on a garbage collection search. 

-- 
Greg