Hi, Aaron, This all sounds like we are thinking along the same lines. Here are the things I could work on.
1. Upgrade Lucene. But I suspect I might ruin something, and you are a better candidate for this. 2. Restore the UI submission. 3. Or another task that can let me slowly get up to speed. 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 On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > If I were to do just perform the upgrade it might require some > re-architecting but I would hope it would be minimal. > > > > > > Create a front end, maybe a service in AWS also. > > > > Agreed. There was a GUI contrib a long time ago, but I'm sure it needs > some work at this point. > > > > > > I can ask a friend who was considering using Blur, what stopped him. We > > will know what would people need. > > > > I'm always interested to know other people's reasoning. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Hmm, ok I will take a look. Thanks. > > > > > > Update the 2011 copyright. It needs to look alive and be alive. > > > > Yeah. > > > > > > Personnel reasons that you mention are people, not your personal > problems, > > I assume. > > > > No I didn't have issues with anyone in the project or outside the project > for that matter. My job position changed and the new position hasn't > required me to work on search related tech yet. Along with the job change > I have had to spend far more time at home due to a health related issue in > my family. > > Thanks for the questions and the comments! > > Aaron > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
