Paul, I'd very much like to be involved in the strategic planning for the rebuilding of C4/Search to handle solR. I'm eager to see it as a valid option along side Zebra, for libraries who can support the heavier-weight search system. I think there is also a lot more we can milk out of Zebra with a more generalized and otherwise cleaner search API. I'm free for IRC meetings usually between 12:00 and 22:00 UTC, but could go later if need be. Cheers, -Ian On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>wrote:
Hi,
As you all know, BibLibre has worked hard on integrating solR as search engine into Koha. The resulting work is live in 2 french libraries, and we plan to integrate it into Koha 4.0
Our preference went to do a in-depth work. It mean we changed the API a lot, as well as most of the logic behind the search in Koha. It means we can't keep zebra working as it is today. Fortunately, the proposed structure is modularized, so it's possible to re-implement zebra for those who want to stay with it. It's also possible to reintegrate NoZebra or any other search engine.
Zeno Tajoli sent us a mail with some starting work about this re-implementation of zebra. I catched tcohen on IRC today, his boss gave him some time to investigate too. Claire Hernandez (our development manager) is also helping.
Unless i'm mistaking, it's a draft of a "search engine working group". If anyone else is interested, drop me (or claire) a mail, we could organize an IRC session.
PS: i've submitted a presentation for KohaCon11 about what we did around solR. But it will be librarian-oriented. We will/could/should probably have a topic about that during HackFest as well ;-)
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