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

[Stefano Bargioni]

Hi Martin,
thanks a lot for your message. ElasticSearch might not be the best search engine for Koha.
However, we know that some developers prefer it to Solr. In order to determine this, the Hackfest in Marseille will be important. Otherwise we could conduct a survey.
Of course, Chris' opinion is welcome...! Both on the project itself and on the complementation / substitution of Zebra. The Koha Gruppo Italiano hopes that Chris and other developers will participate in the Koha Hackfest.
 
Bye Stefano

On 05/feb/2014, at 17.59, Martin Renvoize wrote:

> It's great to see such an interest in putting ElasticSearch into Koha.
> 
> May I suggest you try to catch up with Chris Cormack.. he stated in the 3.16 Architectural Goals mail thread on this list that he was already working on integrating ElasticSearch (some Catalyst with Bywater collaboration I believe), visible here: http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p=koha.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/elastic_search
> 
> I'm sure he'll pipe up by himself soon enough.. but it would be terrible to see duplicated effort.. on the flip side it would be great to see some more collaboration and funding for the developers to be able to spend more time on getting this right.
> 
> Martin Renvoize
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> On 5 February 2014 16:34, Stefano Bargioni <bargioni at pusc.it> wrote:
> The Koha Gruppo Italiano is proud to present a new project for the development of Koha.
> 
> Recently the community has shown a big interest in substituting Zebra with a new search engine. How this is done -- whether Zebra is replaced or complemented, etc. -- will determine the workload and necessary financial support.
> 
> The Koha Gruppo Italiano wants to promote the project through a crowd-funding campaign, sponsorships, events, endorsements etc.
> 
> The Koha Gruppo Italiano would like to bring together the community of developers to determine the possibility of introducing the new search engine, to set up the work flow, and to collect the funding necessary for the project. On March 11, 2014 the project will be presented in Marseille at the Koha Hackfest for evaluation. Important software editors/producers working for Koha, and others interested in the project will be invited. The project will be presented by Stefano Bargioni, Deputy Director and System Librarian at the Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce. The goal is to discuss solutions, and propose ideas in order to take initial decisions.
> 
> The project and its progress can be followed through the website <http://kohagruppoitaliano.moonfruit.com>, on FB <http://www.facebook.com/KohaGruppoItaliano> and on Twitter <https://twitter.com/kohagruppoit>.
> 
> 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.
> 
> We are grateful to all developers who will be contributing to our project. We hope that this project is seen favorably within the community, and specifically wish that the Librarian community worldwide see the benefits of this project and would be willing to assist us with finding financial support.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> Franziska Wallner, Stefano Bargioni, Sebastian Hierl, Juan Diego Ramirez
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