Closed Bug 784991 Opened 12 years ago Closed 3 months ago

Search on planet.mozilla.org is no longer performed - still shows list of all the posts

Categories

(Websites :: planet.mozilla.org, defect)

Product:
Websites
Component:
planet.mozilla.org
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: whimboo, Assigned: mhoye)

References

Details

When you are using the search field on planet.mozilla.org for a search like 'extension' you will always see all the posts but not the subset which applies to the search criteria.
I'm guessing that hasn't worked in years given the setup.
search is still down on Planet Mozilla.
Taking.
Assignee: nobody → mhoye
Component: planet.mozilla.org → WebOps: Other
Product: Websites → Infrastructure & Operations
QA Contact: nmaul
Version: unspecified → other
Whiteboard: [kanban:webops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/4/1903]
It looks like the search functionality relies on a file that does not currently exist and I'm unable to dig out anything that tells me what *should* be in that file.   I think this leaves us with:
   1) doing development work to the planet code to provide search functionality,
   2) delegating the search to somewhere else, or
   3) removing the search field (because it's not acting as intended) 


In the <HEAD> section, I found: 

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Planet Mozilla search" href="http://planet.mozilla.org/opensearchdescription.xml"/>

This file is not anywhere in the planet.mo directories.  .xml files appear to be generated from templates kept as part of the theme (e.g. atom.xml.xslt or rss10.xml.tmpl).  I couldn't find anything that looked like a source file for these in the theme directories. [1].  "svn log --verbose" didn't cough up any obvious candidates.


Poking around, I can find example opensearch XML files.  The key bit in that file is the  search URL, which refers to the location of the search engine to be used.   I know that, at one point, there was a Google Search Appliance that was brought in for evaluation but was eventually decommissioned.   A bug that was opened about six months before this one talks about fixing the search functionality on intranet.mozilla.org, which had stopped working due to the removal of the appliance. [2]
 
[1]  /data/static/build/planet/trunk/themes
     /data/static/build/planet/branches/planet/theme

[2]  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753004
Adding in a NEEDINFO here to figure out how folks want to proceed.

(Personally speaking, I don't have the skillset to implement option #1, could hack in something for option #2 if someone can tell me where search should be delegated to, and can probably figure out how to accomplish option #3.)
Flags: needinfo?(mhoye)
Whiteboard: [kanban:webops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/4/1903] → [kanban:https://webops.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/2/145] []
Closing this bug as WONTFIX (lack of guidance).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(mhoye)
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Reopening; making search work is going to be a part of the Planet refresh aiming for Q2, so I'd like to keep this open until we can figure out larger process there.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Component: WebOps: Other → planet.mozilla.org
Product: Infrastructure & Operations → Websites
QA Contact: nmaul
Whiteboard: [kanban:https://webops.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/2/145] []
Still the same!
Steps how to reproduce with EN-US SeaMonkey 2.33.1 (German Language pack)  Gecko/20100101 Build 20150321194901 (Default Theme) on German WIN7 64bit:

1. Visit http://planet.mozilla.org
   » shows lots of blog posts
2. Use Browser Find-Bar to search contents for "trychooser"
   » Will be found 1 times in posting 
     "Armen Zambrano — mozci 0.5.0 released - Store password  ..."
3. Into Blogs (?) Search pane (below "Other Planets" type "trychooser"
   → [Enter]
   » shown URL changes to <http://planet.mozilla.org/?q=trychooser>
   Expected: only 1 article shown with "trychooser"
   Actual: It seems that all the same contents is shown as in step 1.
           No Message "Notthing found" or similar

Search seems to be without function, completely useless

"At Mozilla, we’re a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible ..."
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago → 3 months ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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