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

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi all,

Martin and Chris said it much better than me - thx for chiming in.

Katrin

On 03.09.20 21:47, Chris Cormack wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>>         <mailto: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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