Search refinements / API

[kulnor]

User Story

As a user, I want to quickly find quality and well supported tools that meet my needs and work in my environment. The current categories are broad and the lists contain too many items. I would like to reduce the number of matches using various filtering criteria.

Detailed Requirement

• Add the following search criteria:
  • popularity (e.g. >= number of 'stars' , watchers, forks). Or possibly derive a popularity score based on multiple properties?
  • last update (e.g. past n-months)
  • supported version (check one or more)
  • operating environment / language
• Understand this may be challenging to implement with 11ty. Indexing the tools.yaml file using an Apache Solr or Elastic Search server could provide a search API. Another option would be to implement a simple serverless microservice for search and retrieval (e.g. using node.js express)
• Some of the criteria may not be currently supported by the model

note: suspect this is already on the roadmap....

[SensibleWood]

Hi @kulnor we've got some it:

• Clarification (simplification) of tool categories #57
• Ignore Approach and Implementation #52

Will pull this together under an "uber" story - either embellishing here or a new one - to make sure we have it covered correctly