We want to take this opportunity
to congratulate Biblibre for initiating the search engine change with
which we are identified and in which we would like to collaborate, due
to the important problem on the facets.
We believe that it is time to examine some aspects of the project, with
no intention of offending any member of the community in doing so.
In Xercode, despite being a new company, some of our members have been
working on the project since 2007, when we first came into contact with
PERL. All of our present developers have been working on PHP and JAVA
projects. Since then, we have been conscious that the structure of KOHA
is unlike any other major project we have worked on previously.
In our opinion, it has become necessary to upgrade technologies
employed in the project making KOHA more competitive with similar
software.
We believe that is urgent to use a framework like DANCER, SOLR as an
index engine (our main problem with clients), increase performance,
... We believe, however, that this will not completely resolve our
present situation due to the fact that the project structure is not
sufficiently defined.
A good example is the propose of search engine change, a current point
of conflict. We have traditionally followed an Object Oriented
Metodology (working with interfaces and abstract classes). By doing
this we would achieve an abstraction of the search engine and the
result of using a method, for example “engineSearch”, would be the same
with indifference to use SOLR or ZEBRA and the majority of problems
that we are currently facing in the community (principally the
integration of the diverse developments by each member) can be easily
resolved.
Applying this philosophy to .pl files would make them more concise and
more easily understood. DRUPAL and OTRS (PERL) are good examples
composed by a kernel and specific modules.
Considering all of this, this is a perfect moment for reflexion due to
the fact that these points may affect the scalability and evolution of
KOHA.
Regards,
Miguel Angel Calvo Lázaro
Dirección
de Soluciones
miguel.calvo@xercode.es
Telf. 653 038 238
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de
Castro, 53 4º C
15895 Milladoiro - Ames (A Coruña)
Telf. 881 975 576
www.xercode.es
info@xercode.es
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