rust-lang / rust-lang/docs.rs

Support searching across groups of crates

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Description

Some projects release their code in a lot of related crates - Tokio/Futures being the motivating example. It would nice to be able to group them all together and search them as a single entity.

I'm not sure where the info to define a group of crates would come from. Manual setting it one option, or the result of a crate search. Ideally it would be in the crates.io/crate metadata.

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Research direction

Start by tracing the existing crate search flow and how docs.rs uses crates.io/crate metadata. Determine how groups of related crates would be defined, then verify that a group can be searched as one entity and that the chosen metadata source supports the result.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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