On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:07:51 -0500
Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2010/8/29 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com>
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> We have a free software policy, while we continue to revise it,
> google's search engine is clearly against that policy:
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http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/csi/free-software-policy/en-US/ht...
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN...
http://start.fedoraproject.org/ is using
a Google Search Box... YOU DON'T HAVE THE CODE TO PLAY WITH IT OR
ANYTHING... With "Fedora's engine" I'm giving you the chance of
having something more "opensource" and also more specific and useful
for the fedora users...
I appreciate that you are working up ideas here to improve things. :)
Please do keep that up.
However, as others have pointed out, the only reason the start page is
using google right now is a old historical accident. We should change
it.
There was a thread on the advisory board list not long back about
doing that... changing it to the front page of
fedoraproject.org or
some kind of fedora news site. I think exploring those directions
would be more productive. Perhaps the websites team could weigh in on
what kinds of things would be better than what we have now?
I would like to see things like:
- Information on how to join fedora.
- Info on how to get help with your fedora install.
- Important news in the fedora world
- Perhaps a view of the current planet feed or something?
I don't think a search engine is that usefull as most browsers have a
search function, and a boring search engine box will make most people
just change the page to something they use more.
All just my 2c worth.
kevin