877217 - Support in-site search indexing of external docs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

What problems would this solve?
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Lots of Mozilla-related external docs that don't use our wiki live on GitHub and in hg repos. Though we don't want to be Google, it might be interesting to reach out and index these sources so that they show up in our in-site search.

Who would use this?
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Users seeking docs could use MDN's search feature to find results across the network of Mozilla docs.

What would users see?
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External sources of doco (eg. from GitHub and ReadTheDocs.org) would appear as results in the in-site search.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Authors of docs would submit their project to MDN (eg. bug 877212), and MDN would start indexing that project (eg. from a github webhook and/or other API)

Users seeking docs would use the in-site search and see results pointing at external docs.

Is there anything else we should know?
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This indexing feature should be driven by changes to external docs. e.g. GitHub has webhooks that ping when a repo is updated.