Is Indexdata's Zebra a dead project?
Hi all, I just noticed that Indexdata doesn't provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/ In fact, Zebra hasn't been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS. In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least. I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess. All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch? David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595
Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration. El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au> escribió:
Hi all,
I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/
In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS.
In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least.
I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess.
All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch?
David Cook
Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595
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Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra. On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration.
El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au>> escribió:
Hi all,
I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/
In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS.
In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least.
I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess.
All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch?
David Cook
Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595
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I would say it's time to start thinking about alternatives/further encourage the adoption of elastic search and clean up the search code in general. I still have a, perhaps misguided, fondness for zebra. I'm not sure Koha has always used it to its strengths and it certainly has its own issues.. but it is significantly lighter weight to run and has a place as a genuine alternative to the rather heavy elasticsearch.. I'd love to see a lightweight option replace zebra as an option one day but I don't think it's a priority quit yet..might be worth some experimenting though given its dwindling support higher up the river. Just my two pennies, Martin On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, 6:01 pm Katrin Fischer, <katrin.fischer.83@web.de> wrote:
Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra. On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration.
El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au> escribió:
Hi all,
I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/
In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS.
In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least.
I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess.
All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch?
David Cook
Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595
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Hi all I agree, we do need to work on a lightweight alternative, and until we have one support zebra. The vast majority of Koha libraries will not have the budget to be able to run an elastic search cluster. So while elastic search is definitely great and we should continue to improve our usage of it. The beauty of Koha is we don't leave people behind. Just my 2 cents Chris On 4 September 2020 7:32:39 am NZST, "Renvoize, Martin" <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
I would say it's time to start thinking about alternatives/further encourage the adoption of elastic search and clean up the search code in general.
I still have a, perhaps misguided, fondness for zebra. I'm not sure Koha has always used it to its strengths and it certainly has its own issues.. but it is significantly lighter weight to run and has a place as a genuine alternative to the rather heavy elasticsearch.. I'd love to see a lightweight option replace zebra as an option one day but I don't think it's a priority quit yet..might be worth some experimenting though given its dwindling support higher up the river.
Just my two pennies,
Martin
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, 6:01 pm Katrin Fischer, <katrin.fischer.83@web.de> wrote:
Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra. On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration.
El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au> escribió:
Hi all,
I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/
In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS.
In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least.
I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess.
All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch?
David Cook
Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595
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Hi all, Martin and Chris said it much better than me - thx for chiming in. Katrin On 03.09.20 21:47, Chris Cormack wrote:
Hi all
I agree, we do need to work on a lightweight alternative, and until we have one support zebra. The vast majority of Koha libraries will not have the budget to be able to run an elastic search cluster. So while elastic search is definitely great and we should continue to improve our usage of it. The beauty of Koha is we don't leave people behind.
Just my 2 cents
Chris
On 4 September 2020 7:32:39 am NZST, "Renvoize, Martin" <martin.renvoize@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
I would say it's time to start thinking about alternatives/further encourage the adoption of elastic search and clean up the search code in general.
I still have a, perhaps misguided, fondness for zebra. I'm not sure Koha has always used it to its strengths and it certainly has its own issues.. but it is significantly lighter weight to run and has a place as a genuine alternative to the rather heavy elasticsearch.. I'd love to see a lightweight option replace zebra as an option one day but I don't think it's a priority quit yet..might be worth some experimenting though given its dwindling support higher up the river.
Just my two pennies,
Martin
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, 6:01 pm Katrin Fischer, <katrin.fischer.83@web.de <mailto:katrin.fischer.83@web.de>> wrote:
Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra.
On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration.
El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au>> escribió:
Hi all,
I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/
In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS.
In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least.
I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess.
All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch?
David Cook
Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595
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I know what you mean, and I totally agree about Koha not using Zebra to its strengths. That said, Zebra does have some annoying limitations, although I have thought how some of those could be worked around by wrapping Zebra with another program (or even writing features and upstreaming them. I’d just need to brush up on my C skills). David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Renvoize, Martin Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 5:33 AM To: Koha Devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Is Indexdata's Zebra a dead project? I would say it's time to start thinking about alternatives/further encourage the adoption of elastic search and clean up the search code in general. I still have a, perhaps misguided, fondness for zebra. I'm not sure Koha has always used it to its strengths and it certainly has its own issues.. but it is significantly lighter weight to run and has a place as a genuine alternative to the rather heavy elasticsearch.. I'd love to see a lightweight option replace zebra as an option one day but I don't think it's a priority quit yet..might be worth some experimenting though given its dwindling support higher up the river. Just my two pennies, Martin On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, 6:01 pm Katrin Fischer, <katrin.fischer.83@web.de <mailto:katrin.fischer.83@web.de> > wrote: Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra. On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration. El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au> > escribió: Hi all, I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/ In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS. In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least. I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess. All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch? David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io <http://theke.io/> ) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
I answered this because on some bug (which one I don't remember) I was told we shouldn't 'add features' to Zebra code. But I need to dig a bit to remember. It might have been a communication issue, but we haven't been adding features to Zebra code On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, 14:02 Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83@web.de> wrote:
Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra. On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote:
Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration.
El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au> escribió:
Hi all,
I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/
In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS.
In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least.
I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess.
All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch?
David Cook
Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St
Ultimo, NSW 2007
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
Online: 02 8005 0595
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That does sound familiar, although I wonder what sort of features were in mind… David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Tomas Cohen Arazi Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 10:38 AM To: Katrin Fischer <Katrin.Fischer.83@web.de> Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Is Indexdata's Zebra a dead project? I answered this because on some bug (which one I don't remember) I was told we shouldn't 'add features' to Zebra code. But I need to dig a bit to remember. It might have been a communication issue, but we haven't been adding features to Zebra code On Thu, Sep 3, 2020, 14:02 Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer.83@web.de <mailto:katrin.fischer.83@web.de> > wrote: Hi Tomas, I don't think that's correct - there was never an official decision on deprecating Zebra. On 03.09.20 14:27, Tomas Cohen Arazi wrote: Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration. El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au> > escribió: Hi all, I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/ In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS. In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least. I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess. All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch? David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io <http://theke.io/> ) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
Oh that’s interesting! I see references to Debian Buster in the commit log (https://github.com/indexdata/idzebra/commits/master). I might shoot off an email about getting some updated packages/releases. Can we really call Zebra usage deprecated if it’s still the default stable option for new installations? On the surface, Elasticsearch still seems experimental. David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 From: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2020 10:28 PM To: David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> Cc: koha-devel <koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Is Indexdata's Zebra a dead project? Latest commit is from April 8th. I belive it is in maintenance mode only. We deprecated it, though. So focus is on ES integration. El mié., 2 sept. 2020 a las 21:54, <dcook@prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au> > escribió: Hi all, I just noticed that Indexdata doesn’t provide Zebra packages past Debian Stretch: http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/. The latest Ubuntu package is for 18.04 (Bionic): http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/ubuntu/ In fact, Zebra hasn’t been updated since August 2018 according to the changelog: https://software.indexdata.com/zebra/doc/NEWS. In Debian, it looks like Debian 11 Bullseye will have the latest Zebra (2.1.4), so there is that at least. I guess people using Debian 10 Buster will either need to use the buggy Zebra (2.0.59) in Debian or maybe use the Stretch packages from Indexdata. But then from Bullseye onwards there will be the latest Zebra until Debian drops the package I guess. All the more reason to move more to Elasticsearch? David Cook Software Engineer Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org <mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io <http://theke.io/> ) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F
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