[Koha-devel] Search Engine Changes : let's get some solr

[Colin Campbell]

One thing I'd like to see come out of the discussion is some idea of
what we want from from a Search interface. One of the problems of
finding shiny new solutions is that having chased after them you also
import a lot of junk you then have to live with. (retrospectively we may
have done that with zebra). I'm quite willing to believe that some of
the perceived zebra problems are problems not with it per se but with
how we handle it. When developing software it is a good method to write
a test first that fails then write the functionality to pass that test.
It means you have a clear target of what you are trying to achieve. We
need to have a clear idea of what we want a search package to provide us
and what constraints it must meet, otherwise we can't evaluate solutions
(or even identify if the failure to meet these lies in the external
software or in areas we can code our way out of them).
 Whatever we decide concerning zebra/Solr etc. I'd hope we come out with
a clearer picture of what we need from them or from x.

Colin


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