Package: lists.debian.org
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Some recent discussion from the Debian mailing lists appears to be missing
from the mailing list search engine[1] indices.

For example:

* Searching for 'Debian'[2] in the debian-devel mailing list, results sorted
by date, currently retrieves a most-recent result dated February of Y2023.

* A wider search for 'Debian'[3] without specifying an individual mailing
list currently retrieves results up to December of Y2023.

Could you inspect the indexing hosts/processes to check whether posts are being indexed as expected?

Thank you,
James

[1] - https://lists.debian.org/search.html

[2] - https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=debian&B=Gdebian-devel&SORT=0

[3] - https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=debian&SORT=0

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Package: lists.debian.org
Followup-For: Bug #1064475
X-Debbugs-Cc: cord@debian.org

Hi Cord,

Running a search for 'python removal' on the 'testing-changes' mailing list, ordered by most-recent-first, currently lacks any results from this year.

https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=python+removal&DEFAULTOP=and&B=Gdebian-testing-changes&SORT=0&HITSPERPAGE=100&xP=python%09removal&xFILTERS=Gdebian-testing-changes%7E.%7E%7E0

The most recent item that appears is:

"Testing removal summary 2023-02-04 (Saturday) Debian testing watch"

And an example item that I would expect to see included is:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/2024/02/msg00054.html

Regards,
James

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Thanks for reporting this.

On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 06:29:22PM +0000, James Addison wrote:

Running a search for 'python removal' on the 'testing-changes' mailing list, ordered by most-recent-first, currently lacks any results from this year.

https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=python+removal&DEFAULTOP=and&B=Gdebian-testing-changes&SORT=0&HITSPERPAGE=100&xP=python%09removal&xFILTERS=Gdebian-testing-changes%7E.%7E%7E0

There are currently 7 shards in the lists database, but only the first 6
were listed to be searched. It looks like indexing is working fine,
except it started a new shard and failed to update the list to search.

I've manually fixed this and now the search above gives me a top result
of:

Testing removal summary 2024-03-10 (Sunday)

I really need to resolve why this didn't happen automatically or else
this will go wrong again in the future.

Cheers,
Olly

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Hi Olly,

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 at 20:42, Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> wrote:

[ ... snip ... ]
There are currently 7 shards in the lists database, but only the first 6
were listed to be searched. It looks like indexing is working fine,
except it started a new shard and failed to update the list to search.

I've manually fixed this and now the search above gives me a top result
of:

Testing removal summary 2024-03-10 (Sunday)

Thank you very much! The search results now look much better to me too.

Regards,
James

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