[Koha-devel] Is Indexdata's Zebra a dead project?

[Chris Cormack]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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