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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-600:
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The wikisearch example is a very difficult project to determine ownership over.
The knowledge of the implementation and the (subtle) caveats is primarily
outside the knowledge of the current list of contributors, like Chris stated.
Meaning, it doesn't make sense to keep it underneath the Accumulo trunk as
those who fix it have to operate proxied through other committers. The
wikisearch code already suffers from rot, due to less direct love than it
deserves/needs. Saying that we need to reduce complexity of the code doesn't
mean anything if no one can actually work on improving things.
Although, I agree with Eric that the wikisearch code is an excellent example of
the features, performance, and application of Accumulo which would make sense
to keep with Accumulo to ensure that a real-life application is tied with each
Accumulo release. For those who want to do something "serious" with Accumulo,
the wikisearch can (and I would argue, should) be an excellent place to begin
to learn about the intricacies and best-practices. There's far too much
contained in functioning code that documentation can never encompass.
Something needs to change to keep the wikisearch code at the level it should
be, but I'm undecided if the medium of hosting will really matter in the long
run. Ill-maintained code will suffer no matter where it's kept, but change
needs to happen before the example is moot.
> Move wikisearch example to contrib
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> Key: ACCUMULO-600
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-600
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: contrib
> Reporter: Billie Rinaldi
> Assignee: Billie Rinaldi
> Fix For: 1.5.0
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> The wikisearch example is a submodule of accumulo examples, but it is complex
> enough to be a separate contrib. Its sibling submodule, examples-simple,
> could then be moved back to an accumulo submodule.
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