Future Ideas wiki page

[David Lang]

one thing that I saw mentioned elsewhere as a limitation of IMAP (and therefor I 
don't know if there is a way to address it reasonably) is the lack of a fuzzy 
search capability.

the IMAP search is a exact match search, it would be useful to have the hooks to 
be able to use a search-engine like search capibility as well (not just exact 
matches, but matches with only some of the search terms, matches with plural 
versions of the search terms, etc)

As I understand it this would require a slight variation of the search request 
to indicate that you want the fuzzy match, and a variation of the search 
response to be able to indicate the quality of each match returned.

David Lang



  On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:01:52 -0800
> From: Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm>
> To: cyrus-devel at lists.andrew.cmu.edu, cyrus-project at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Future Ideas wiki page
> 
> Hi All,
>
> I've set up a new wiki page here:
>
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/FutureIdeas
>
> Linked from the roadmap:
>
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/RoadMap
>
> I've updated the Roadmap with the items I have ready right
> now for 2.4, and put everything else into the bright future
> under 2.5 for now, subject to "actually gets finished and
> stable", obviously.
>
> Most of these ideas have been fleshed out in some detail
> already in my postings to the devel mailing list.  Some are
> still a little bit raw (like having the mailbox path on disk
> depend on the uniqueid rather than the actual mailbox name.
> I'll expand on this another time... and it's not yet mentioned
> on the wiki, but it makes a lot of things nicer!)
>
> Anyway, I'd love feedback on any or all of it, and if there
> are other things that you feel are really important for the
> future viability of Cyrus I'd love to hear about them as well.
> I haven't yet had a chance to look at the QRESYNC stuff that
> Ken's already done for 2.4, and we might wind up releasing
> a 2.4 without a lot of these changes just because there's a
> lot of work in there!
>
> That said, I'm pushing myself pretty aggressively to have that
> list finished by April of THIS YEAR.  Particularly the low
> bandwidth replication, which depends on all pretty much all
> of the others!
>
> Regards,
>
> Bron.
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