A nice feature would be full text search over all release notes of a changelog. This would allow users to easily find specific changes or features across different versions
Technical Challenges
Detecting changes in remote changelog files:
We don't store release notes directly in Openchangelog
Need to efficiently detect when remote changelog files are modified
Need to determine when new release notes are added
Proposed Solution
Use existing caching mechanism and update the search index when HTTP status 200 is returned. Skips update when status 304 (Not Modified) is returned.
But what when local files are used, we don't cache the local files?
We can use Bleve a golang search library to use an in memory index or file backed index. Then we don't require any external services.
A nice feature would be full text search over all release notes of a changelog. This would allow users to easily find specific changes or features across different versions
Technical Challenges
Detecting changes in remote changelog files:
Proposed Solution
Use existing caching mechanism and update the search index when HTTP status
200is returned. Skips update when status 304 (Not Modified) is returned. But what when local files are used, we don't cache the local files?We can use Bleve a golang search library to use an in memory index or file backed index. Then we don't require any external services.