wilkinsona
commented
1 year ago The checkbox to only search in the current version addresses this somewhat. IMO, it would still be good to weight results to favour certain versions and group things together. At the moment, if I search for EnableWebSecurity I get hits in the following versions on the first page:
- 5.8.1
- 6.0.1
- 5.6.10
- 5.8.1
- 5.7.6
- 6.1.0-SNAPSHOT
- 6.0.1
- 5.6.10
- 5.8.1
- 5.7.6
- 5.8.1
- 5.6.10
- 6.1.0-SNAPSHOT
- 6.0.1
- 5.6.10
- 5.7.6
- 5.8.1
I can't spot much of a pattern to the ordering. I wonder if things could either be ordered consistently or if all of the hits from a certain version could be grouped together.
This is somewhat related to https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/11056.
When there are multiple hits for the same section in different versions of the documentation, I wonder if they could be weighted based on the version of the documentation that I am searching from. For example, https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/ is currently serving the documentation for Spring Security 5.7.1 so results in the 5.7.1 docs are likely to be what I am looking for. If I search for "Testing", I'm shown 10 results. Based on experience with other search engines, I'd assume that the first result is considered to be the best but it's for the 5.7.0 docs: https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/5.7.0/servlet/test/index.html#page-title.