Hello OpenDev admins,

Mehdi, one of our developer relations engineers here at GR-OSS, and I were talking about the state of OpenStack docs, and how a repeated complaint we hear is that search is not extremely useful. He noted that for https://consuldot.net GR-OSS uses a service called https://algolia.com to provide search (top right corner of consuldot.net). 

We were hoping to pilot this for OpenStack and see how well the search worked against our documentation, but when going through the process they specifically request you have permission from the website owners before they crawl ( https://docsearch.algolia.com/apply/ ) -- so I'm reaching out to you to try and get this permission.

Right now our ONLY goal is to get a prototype working for this to demo to the larger OpenStack community -- honestly I just want to see if it's worth the value before we have the larger discussion around externally-hosted search. So basically, we're looking for permission to point their crawler at OpenStack documentation (we may start with just Ironic for simplicity). We'll create a larger discussion including the foundation, TC, and larger community if it appears to be a worthwhile pursuit.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Jay Faulkner