Friday, March 2, 2012

Re: Google Code Search shut down

Excerpts from Benjamin R. Haskell's message of Fri Mar 02 22:32:09 +0100 2012:
> Is the website's codebase publicly available? The CVS repo at
> vimonline.sf.net appears to be very out-of-date.
Bram decided to not publish it for security reasons.

I personally think that we could risk it - if we published it and doing
backups.

But I'd also like to add some more features such as
- code browsing
- git based wiki everybody can contribute to
- ....

Another guy (Cameron Eagons) started a rewrite 2 month ago, his code can
be found here. However it looks like it stalled:
https://github.com/cweagans/vim.org

I'd like to improve these things / see them improved:
- add kind of wiki (because lot's of content should be improved)
- add a way to report strange scripts and a button (for admins) to
delete them. Its not a big issue.
- remove the "negative" voting or force users to also provide a comment
why negative voting happens.
- allow browsing code (master branch, latest revision of plugins)
- code word search (based on simple bloom filters or grepping - don't know
yet)
- show top level README files and doc/*.txt files (getting rid of the
install instructions you see now which means duplicate work at least for
devs)

However I'd also like to add JS v8 support sometime in the future -
Maybe I never get started.

Marc Weber

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