Bug#477347: PTS: add OpenSearch plugin (with suggestions)

[Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> Ok, so maybe the PTS should provide an OpenSearch plugin? It would even  
>> be better to have an OpenSearch plugin with suggestions:
> 
> I have no idea of what OpenSearch plugin can possibly be.
> Can you please give some more context for this request, so that it can
> be better evaluated whether to implement it or not?

On Iceweasel (but maybe on other browsers as well), if you go to
Wikipedia, for example, it will detect that it provides a search service
and give you the possibility to add it easily to your search list.

Better, when you start typing something in the "Search" area for that
service, after having added it, it will give you suggestions, the same
way completion does in decent shells. What I had in mind for the PTS was
that sort of completion on source packages. See Wikipedia for more details.

The change will be basically to implement a webservice giving the
completion list of some (start of) request, and to advertise this search
service in PTS pages (some meta in html).

Actually, my first need was to access directly some PTS page, and the
file I submitted at the beginning of this bug report did the job. But
Christoph Berg's tip above kind of decreased the necessity for this.

I haven't implemented anything yet for the suggestion part, but I still
think it could be useful (though not urgent).


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane