Unified Search and Roadie Local enter beta, extended GitHub & GHES support, OpenSearch for all, and new plugins arrive

The latest features and updates from Roadie.

OpenSearch for all

The OpenSearch rollout began last month and has not reached general availability.

If you missed it last month that means:

Casing is better handled: camelCase, kebab-case and snake_case are factored in, so the user doesn’t need to know which was used when they’re searching
Partial search terms and descriptions are better handled: for example, skipping some-word in camel-some-word-case and just typing camel case will be returned as a result.
Word fragments allow for partial word matches. We’re currently using 4-7 chars for the ngrams, so fragments of words should be well matched

But that’s not the only thing happening with search…

Unified Search enters [beta]

We’ve also tweaked the UI to create a new search UI that captures more information and provides a generally slicker interaction with search.

The new UI allows you to:

Use keyboard shortcuts (Cmd-K from anywhere in the app to bring it up)
Navigate as well as search (try searching for “Catalog”) for example.
Do things a little faster than before (performance is improved)

Unified search not only enables greater discoverability within Roadie, but is also our first step in enabling RAG AI-enhanced searching of the Catalog and Tech Docs. In fact, it’ll be the entry point for a few different AI features we’re dreaming up.

We’re already seeing search volume and click-through to an entity that then doesn’t result in a new search (i.e. “Yay, I found what I was looking for”) go up as result.

More on that over the next couple of months as our AI journey continues…

Unified Search

Supporting both GitHub.com & GitHub Enterprise Server

As our customers grow, so do the number of different SCMs deployed in any given organisation.

For a while we’ve dealt with the GitHub Cloud <> BitBucket combo.

Now we can handle the GitHub.com <> GHES combo too. Aside from setting up both SCMs there’s nothing additional you’ll need to do - it’s all handled by a new GitHub switcher.

Nice.

Roadie Local [beta] begins

Roadie Local, the locally runnable version of Roadie you can deploy on your infrastructure, has entered beta.

We weren’t expecting a long beta but who knows when you get into the weird and wacky world of on-prem deployment. More to come here I’m sure…

Rootly Plugin

The Rootly plugin recently released v1.0.0 of their plugin, which we’ve dutifully upgraded. It comes with a lot of new fun stuff, including the ability to: