[osol-mktg] Re: Re: adding code to Google's Code Search engine

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> Hi,
> 
> I don't believe that it is possible to construct a
> report that goes from 
> search term to site section.  I will look into it
> further, but I cannot 
> figure it out at the moment.

No need on my account; what you posted is interesting though.
sd (SCSI disk/CD-ROM) driver, some vfs/vnode and filesystem
related files (although not specifically zfs), tcp and ip modules,
etc at the top of the list.  Now that I think of it, if it were me,
I might start looking there too, i.e. at infrastructure stuff rather
than the glamor items (although the TCP/IP redesign did get some
attention awhile back).  But I'm realizing that reading much in the
way of motivation into records of what people look at (and even
where they clicked on the link from) is difficult and probably a
waste of time.


> What I could do it produce a report that shows the
> next page from the 
> OpenGrok search page, which is attached.  This covers
> the last 6 months. 
> I realise that this is not what you were looking
>  for, but I hope it 
> oes offer some insight into what code people are
> looking at.
> 
> Of course, it is possible to produce a report showing
> all the search 
> terms that hit OpenSolaris.org, if that's of
> interest.

What I'd find most of interest is an answer to
what people want when they click on a link somewhere else
to come to opensolaris.org.  It strikes me that looking at
code may be quite different from looking at general
information, but I don't see what can be done with that.
Perhaps if the site had a feedback link on every page (or
at least everything other than the "raw" source file pages);
something that also asks a couple of questions from B5: "what do you want?"
"why are you here?".  Even something like Google's ranking can capture the
choices people make, but it can say little about motivations and
expectations; perhaps only direct questions can solicit those answers.
 
 
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