Great job Martin, Jonathan, and Katrin! Sad to say goodbye to all the effort put into the QueryParser, but I think it was the right time for it to go too. Hopefully some of the ideas behind it can be used to improve things in the future. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595 From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Renvoize, Martin Sent: Monday, 2 March 2020 10:11 PM To: Koha Devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org>; Koha <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha-devel] Saying farewell to QueryParser Hi All, As discussed at the development meeting on the 19th February <https://meetings.koha-community.org/2020/development_irc_meeting_19_february_2020.2020-02-19-14.02.html> we have decided to remove the QueryParser option and code from Koha. This decision was not taken lightly, but with the move towards Elasticsearch and the lack of follow-through support for continued bug fixing and improvements in the QueryParser code we decided to reduce out maintenance debt and remove it. We used HEA to try to ascertain if anyone had been using the option and it appears to have little to zero adoption (and at the time of writing, had a number of bad bugs which meant using it was advised against for some time). Jonathan D has worked hard to produce a patch quickly to do this work and I intend to push this later today to reduce the risk of repetitive rebase requirements. So, join me in saying farewell to QueryParser, a nice idea never fully realised. Many thanks as ever to the koha development team, Martin Renvoize <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager Community Release Manager (19.11, 20.05) Phone: +44 (0) 1483 378728 Mobile: +44 (0) 7725 985 636 Email: <mailto:martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com> martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com Fax: +44 (0) 800 756 6384 <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> www.ptfs-europe.com Registered in the United Kingdom No. 06416372 VAT Reg No. 925 7211 30 The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at info@ptfs-europe.com <mailto:info@ptfs-europe.com>