On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi Savitha, > > On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:17 PM, savitha sundaramurthy wrote: > >> Hi Vincent, >> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> I haven't been that closely the SOLR GSOC work and it would be great to >>> see where we stand. >>> >>> I'd love to know the following: >>> >>> * What's the status of the code; is it following our best practices (code >>> style/passing checkstyle, unit tests, functional tests)? >>> >> >> I can say, 80% of code is complete. I tried to follow the best practices of >> xwiki development. Still there are few places with bad code and needs to be >> refactored. Few classes have cyclomatic complexity errors, that need to be >> refactored too. API is missing in few places. >> >> Am planning to work on the code refactoring for another two days and make >> sure checkstyle passes. >> >> Unit tests and Functional tests are in a bad state, and need to be worked >> on. >> >> >> >>> * What's the level of the UI in term of readiness, compared to our current >>> one? >>> >> >> UI is ready. Compared to the current lucene plugin, solr has more features >> and so a little complex UI. >> >> The new Advanced Search UI will have: >> >> - Filtered search ( Filter on Spaces, Language, Type, File type etc..) >> - Custom query boost >> - Faceted Search >> - Need some work to be done on links, at times they are giving >> weird results. >> - Creation date and date need to be changed to something human >> readable instead of dates. >> (i.e. Today, Last Week, Last Month, Year..) >> - Debug query >> - Debug search result >> - Sorting the results ( Relevance, Date, Author etc..) >> - Its one way now,only descending results are active for the above >> sort types, need to add ascending order too. >> >> I have kept the Administration UI to minimal features like indexing >> wiki/space, looking into solrconfig.xml and schema.xml files. Solr Server >> details like versions, components, files used. >> >> Two days of work around UI. Need to check with Caty on the new Advanced >> Search interface. >> >> >>> * Do we have all the features of the current Lucene plugin (including >>> improvements already listed in JIRA, we should verify that they can be >>> implemented with the current code if not already there) >>> >> >> Almost all the features supported by Lucene are supported by Solr. The only >> exception at this time is Auto Suggest in the quick search bar, am working >> on that. >> >> Can you give the link to JIRA, I can verify and let you know whether the >> features can be implemented with the solr component. >> >> >>> * Could we do drop-in replacement of the current search? >>> >>> Its not ready for immediate replacement. It does have all the features >> provided by lucene plugin. But the Advanced search features are having few >> issues, need to calibrate and tweak the search request. >> >> >>> In general, how much work remains to be able to commit this in platform >>> and start bundling it and using it in XE? >>> >> >> Work remaining: >> >> 1. Fix checkstyle errors >> 2. Auto Suggest feature >> 3. Admin UI >> 4. Minor bugs in Facet search to be fixed >> 5. Search calibration >> 6. Unit test cases and Functional test cases. >> >> Planning to do the following this week >> >> 1. Fix checkstyle errors >> 2. Auto Suggest feature >> 3. Fix the minor bugs. >> 4. Search calibration >> 5. Complete the documentation. >> >> Is it possible to have JIRA for Solr component so that it will be easy to >> track the bugs in future? > > Thanks for the details. The plan sounds good. > > I would have loved to be able to see your work in action but last time I > tried your server was down. Any way I could test it?
Ah just seen you other mail where you give this URL which seems to work: http://savitha.hoplahup.net/xwiki/bin/view/Main/AdvancedSearch Thanks! -Vincent > > Re JIRA I have created a component named "SOLR Search" for your to use when > creating jira issues in the Contrib project: > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCONTRIB > > Have you already created any JIRA issues for the past work or not? > > Thanks > -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
