Paul,<br><br><br>I&#39;d very much like to be involved in the strategic planning for the rebuilding of C4/Search to handle solR.  I&#39;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.<br>
<br>I&#39;m free for IRC meetings usually between 12:00 and 22:00 UTC, but could go later if need be.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br><br>-Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Paul Poulain <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:paul.poulain@biblibre.com">paul.poulain@biblibre.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
As you all know, BibLibre has worked hard on integrating solR as search<br>
engine into Koha. The resulting work is live in 2 french libraries, and<br>
we plan to integrate it into Koha 4.0<br>
<br>
Our preference went to do a in-depth work. It mean we changed the API a<br>
lot, as well as most of the logic behind the search in Koha. It means we<br>
can&#39;t keep zebra working as it is today.<br>
Fortunately, the proposed structure is modularized, so it&#39;s possible to<br>
re-implement zebra for those who want to stay with it. It&#39;s also<br>
possible to reintegrate NoZebra or any other search engine.<br>
<br>
Zeno Tajoli sent us a mail with some starting work about this<br>
re-implementation of zebra. I catched tcohen on IRC today, his boss gave<br>
him some time to investigate too. Claire Hernandez (our development<br>
manager) is also helping.<br>
<br>
Unless i&#39;m mistaking, it&#39;s a draft of a &quot;search engine working group&quot;.<br>
If anyone else is interested, drop me (or claire) a mail, we could<br>
organize an IRC session.<br>
<br>
PS: i&#39;ve submitted a presentation for KohaCon11 about what we did around<br>
solR. But it will be librarian-oriented. We will/could/should probably<br>
have a topic about that during HackFest as well ;-)<br>
<br>
--<br>
Paul POULAIN<br>
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