gebbugs.gnu.org search (was Re: Gitlab Migration)

[Maxim Nikulin]

On 27/08/2021 13:21, tomas tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 09:41:06PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
>
> > 5. And debbugs.gnu.org search sucks.  Or at least I suck
> > at trying to find anything using it.
>
> My starting point would be something like [1].
...
> [1] https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=redisplay+idle+site:debbugs.gnu.org

Does it work for you? I get titles like
- "GNU bug reports: Normal bugs - outstanding"
- "GNU bug report logs - #17678"
and links to raw mail messages, e.g. debbugs.gnu.org/db/17/17678.html

I have no idea what should be find by your request, so let's consider 
another one:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3Adebbugs.gnu.org+emacs+locale+number

For this particular query I expect to get

    *#29645 Feature Request: Locale aware formatting*
    https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29645

among top results. Actually I would not mind to get it without narrowing 
search to debbugs.gnu.org.

It seems, google has no chance to provide relevant human friendly 
results due to

https://debbugs.gnu.org/robots.txt
> Disallow: /cgi/

Configuration of Debian bug tracker is better:
https://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt
> Allow: /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=