bug search and source package names

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> Another thing to consider -
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/268508 - is a bug filed
> about how this search is *a problem* rather than a benefit.
>
> Given the fairly low key response to this thread, I'm going to blog on
> the Launchpad blog about this issue, and based on the results to that
> post go ahead (or not) and fix bug 268508 by disabling this part of
> the search.

So, I blogged on the lp blog which got some more replies; and then
microblogged too. Overall the results were roughly:
 - a couple of votes for the current behaviour
 - a lot of support for improving performance
 - some suggestions on how we might incorporate the search behaviour
and still make it fast.

For now, we've disabled this code path; the pragmatic impact in terms
of the usefulness of search results should be minimal. We'll
reevaluate once we're significantly further down the path of improving
performance of search, when its overhead may become tolerable, or we
can decide to invest in a scalable implementation of substring search.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/bug-search-no-long-does-substring-matching-of-source-package-names

-Rob