Improve github search on non-code content (natural language)

[SoumayaMauthoorMOJ]

User Story

As a Developer, I want to search on non-code content (issues and discussions), So that I can find those words and variations from those words

Acceptance Criteria

Here are some examples of what I expect searching to return:

• [ ] searching for like should return matches for like, likely, liking, likes
• [ ] searching for calculate should return matches for calculate, calculation

Notes

It seems like a reasonable expectation that non-code search results include variations of search terms. This is commonly achieved with stemming and lemmatization.

I have created an example repo , with one issue for each of the words listed above. Searching for example calculate returns 1 issue matches.

Note that the user expectation for code search is likely to be different, where you want an exact match.

Contact Info

Please include your Ministry of Justice contact information so we can reach out if we need further clarification.

soumaya.mauthoor@digital.justice.gov.uk

Slack Handle

[jasonBirchall]

Request raised to GitHub customer success team.

[SoumayaMauthoorMOJ]

Hey @jasonBirchall when do you think we can expect to hear more from GitHub about this ticket? Also would it help if I raised a ticket on the GitHub community to get more people to 👍 this issue?