[Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

[Stefano Bargioni]

Hi, Brooke, 
thanks for your reply.

A long time ago, when zebras could talk... :-) We know that the most important decision is about adding a new SE or substituting Zebra. Anyway this decision belongs to the developers' community.

Our task is to help the community, by trying to ensure a financial support for this project and then achieving this goal. We hope that the Koha Gruppo Italiano will start a new way to do big developments in Koha, by defining a group that leads the project in terms of communication and funding, and allowing the developers do their work as soon as possible. 

Additionally, we are aware that we will also spread the word of Koha in many other important environments.

Best regards. Stefano, on behalf of the Koha Gruppo Italiano

On 05/feb/2014, at 18.48, BWS Johnson wrote:

> Salvete!
> 
>     In general for your efforts: bravissimi! :D I feel that it's much needed.
> 
> 
>> We are very interested to hearing your first impressions, your suggestions etc. 
>> about this proposed project. Please respond to this e-mail if you have any 
>> comments. Probably the best contributions during this early phase will be the 
>> definition of the fundamentals. Example:
>> 
>> - Which search engine? - ElasticSearch, Solr or other (even if, at this time, 
>> the name of the initial project is ElasticSearch for Koha)?
>> - Should the effort focus on complementing Zebra or on its replacement?
>> - Subdivide the workload.
>> - Draft a road map.
>> 
> 
>     A long time ago, when animals could talk, it was hoped that whatever steps were taken in search would do so agnostically so that one could select ElasticSearch, Solr, Zebra, or whatever else they so chose. This hope was coupled by the realisation that this approach would probably take longer and involve more resources than just settling on one search to end them all, BUT would be offset in guaranteeing user freedom.
> 
>     This is olde, but might be useful for Solr discussions:
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Switch_to_Solr_RFC#Concerns
> 
>     Realise that this improvement is in discussion, but quite high in difficulty in terms of help:
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/I_want_to_help
>      
>     And tooting me own horn and Jared's:
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/C_%26_P_Search_Rewrite_RFC
> 
> Cheers,
> Brooke
> 
>