On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Aaron, > > > Here is what I think it needs. > > Update to latest Lucene. Why do you think it will be a major undertaking? > Are you going to re-architect at the same time? > > Create a front end, maybe a service in AWS also. > > I can ask a friend who was considering using Blur, what stopped him. We > will know what would people need. > > I am interesting. My colleague at http://elephantscale.com/ might be > interested too. I have a related project, https://github.com/shmsoft/ > FreeEed, > and https://github.com/shmsoft/FreeEedUI. It 'd be good, potentially, to > add Blur as a back end, an alternative to Solr. > > Update the 2011 copyright. It needs to look alive and be alive. > > Personnel reasons that you mention are people, not your personal problems, > I assume. > Personal not personnel. :-) Sorry for the mistype there! > > Cheers, > Mark > > Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <http://elephantscale.com/> > Book a call with me here <http://www.meetme.so/markkerzner> > Mobile: 713-724-2534, Skype: mark.kerzner1 > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > It is, but without a community of active developers it has become > > stagnant. For example the Lucene library version it utilizes has become > > outdated and it would likely be a major undertaking to update the code > base > > to the newest version. The biggest reason for the low activity it that I > > haven't had time to work on the project due to personnel reasons. > > > > In it's current state is it very stable even at very large index sizes > > however the upfront development effort to use Blur is very high by > > comparison to ElasticSearch or Solr. I believe this was the primary > reason > > Blur never really caught on in the community. > > > > Aaron > > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > But, > > > > > > Isn't Blur a new approach arguably better than SOLR and ElasticSearch > for > > > big sizes? > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <http://elephantscale.com/> > > > Book a call with me here <http://www.meetme.so/markkerzner> > > > Mobile: 713-724-2534, Skype: mark.kerzner1 > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Development has slowed to just the occasional bug fix and mail list > > > > activity. That's about it at this point. > > > > > > > > Aaron > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Mark Kerzner < > [email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, guys, > > > > > > > > > > I teach SOLR, and I mention Blur as an alternative with a very > > > > interesting > > > > > and different approach. > > > > > > > > > > What bothers me is somewhat low activity on the code. What is the > > > > > incubating status of Blur? > > > > > > > > > > Thank you > > > > > > > > > > Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <http://elephantscale.com/ > > > > > > > Book a call with me here <http://www.meetme.so/markkerzner> > > > > > Mobile: 713-724-2534, Skype: mark.kerzner1 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
