I agree with Josh, if someone wants to "own" wiki search, they can just grab the source, put it on their github and go with it regardless of what this list says. If they keep it up to date that's great, but unless that happens or someone steps up to agree to maintain it, it will just rot.
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:09 PM, "Josh Elser (JIRA)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-600?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13418897#comment-13418897 > ] > > Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-600: > ------------------------------------- > > 0 (or consider this a non-vote at this point) > > 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 >> ---------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> >> >> 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. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > >
