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

[Chris Cormack]

On 15 November 2010 08:28, LAURENT Henri-Damien
<henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Le 14/11/2010 18:32, Chris Cormack a écrit :
>> On 15 November 2010 06:25, LAURENT Henri-Damien
>> <henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:
>>> Le 11/11/2010 15:19, Ian Walls a écrit :
>>>> Ah, right, I'd forgotten about that switch, as it doesn't work with
>>>> authorities, and I can't do rebuild_zebra.pl <http://rebuild_zebra.pl>
>>>> -a -b -x -z in my crontab.
>>>>
>>>> So, the ISO2709 character limit is not actually an issue at all, then.
>>>>
>>> Well, actually, it is in koha.
>>> Since Koha gets iso2709 from a zebra search.
>>> If it Koha would take marcxml, it would be even slower to get search
>>> results with the Search.pm as it stands now... And let me know if you
>>> know a librarian who would like that.
>>
>> Yep, there is utterly no doubt C4::Search needs a rewrite. This was a
>> goal of 3.4. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in my proposal, and we had
>> some volunteers to work on it.
> Who ?
> What is their plan ?
> Where is the discussion about the rewrite ?
> Where is the code ?
> Is there a working group on that ?
> Is there any place for collaboration ?

Wow, why so hostile, I just pointed out that it was in my RM proposal,
it's on the wiki. The volunteering was done on irc, if i remember
rightly and as far as I know no one has written a plan up yet. I don't
see the need to jump on me for saying it.

However, I still maintain that without a proper search engine
abstraction layer, I would consider any work on Search to be
unfinished.

Chris