On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 05:39, Clement Verna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > fedora-packages [0] code base is showing its age. The code base and > the technology stack (Turbogears2 [1] web framework and the Moksha > [2] middleware) is currently not ready for Python3 and I am not > planning to do the work required to make it Python3 compatible, so the > application will stop working when Fedora 29 is EOL. > > In order to keep the service running, I have started a Proof Of > Concept (fedora-search [3]) to replace the backend of the application. > Fedora-search would be a REST API service offering full test search > API. Such a service would then be available for other application to > use, fedora-packages would then become a frontend only application > using the service provided by fedora-search. > > While the POC shows that this is a viable solution, I don't think that > we should be proceeding that way, for the simple reason that this add > yet another code base to maintain, I think we should use this > opportunity to consider using Elasticsearch instead of maintaining our > own "search engine". > > I think that Elasticsearch offers quite a few advantages : > - Powerful Query language > - Python bindings > - Javascript bindings > - Can be deployed in our infrastructure or used as a service > - Can be useful for other applications ( docs.fp.o, pagure, ??) > > So what is the general feeling about using Elasticsearch in our > infrastructure ? Should we look at deploying a cluster in our infra / > Should we approach the Council to see if we can get founding to have > this service hosted by Elastic ? > > Thanks > Clément >From an information point of view, the package-centric view of Fedora-packages is quite similar to the pagure dist-git. Would it worth investgating merging the front-end functionality of packages (lists of builds, bugs, updates, etc) into pagure dist-git, and retiring the Fedora packages front end? —ry > > > [0] - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/ > [1] - http://www.turbogears.org/ > [2] - https://mokshaproject.github.io/mokshaproject.net/ > [3] - https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-search > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >
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