[wp-hackers] Can we do anything about PAGE SEACRH?

[John Joseph Bachir]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Ryan Boren wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:55 +0000, David House wrote:
>> On 02/01/06, Peak Discharge <chmoka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> OK, this is a very touchy subject for me (and for many others, I'm sure).
>>> Now that a new rewrite system has been introduced in WP 2.0 that doesn't
>>> rape the server when you have a LOT of pages, a whole new range of
>>> possibilities is now open to webmasters. Me, for one thing, I am now working
>>> on a game database site that will use pages as main information holders.
>>> This will mean hundreds of pages. Yet there's only one problem: how to
>>> search them?
>>
>> IMO this should be core.
>
> Who wants to write it?  There are various and sundry patches floating
> about, but nothing comprehensive.  Some folks want to search comments as
> well.  How do we bring it all together?

On the topic of a release branches...bear with me : ) -- is this not an 
example of something that, if developed over the next few days, cannot be 
committed to trunk for several weeks because we are doing bug fixes only?