12 Sep
2013
12 Sep
'13
5:21 p.m.
On 09/12/2013 10:48 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
Now that we have a SOLR search, I think we should close all Lucene-related JIRA issues as
won't fix, remove the Lucene search by default in XWiki 5.3 and move it to
xwiki-contrib.
I don't think we want to maintain 2 implementation especially since the SOLR one is
better.
Here's my +1.
-1. Although it's just a plugin, the Lucene search has been available
for a very long time, so I view it as an API. And a rather important one.
The search has been often customized on client projects, so it's not
just the default wiki search that's using the Lucene index and the
Lucene search API. Is there a migration plan for porting those custom
searches to the new Solr search? Are we sure the Solr index has support
for all the features that the Lucene one had?
We should follow the standard deprecation strategy:
- mark the plugin as deprecated
- warn users that they should switch to Solr
- write a migration guide
- after a few releases (6.1?), remove the search UI (we still have the
even older DatabaseSearch UI available, why not keep the Lucene one a
bit longer?)
- after a few more releases (7.1?), retire the plugin
But yes, we could close Lucene-related issues that we're not going to fix.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu