Hi, This email is to inform that we do not expect to make a 3.0 release in Q1/2018 for reasons I will explain hereafter.
Over the years we have seen users asking for a scalability solution in connection with Semantic MediaWiki especially from enterprise and wiki-farms users. Last month I made an effort to investigate how Elasticsearch (aka ES) could be integrate with SMW by moving the query answering from SQL to ES and hereby allowing us to facilitate on its scalability architecture [1] and combine structured and text query execution. The [2] PR introduces an interface to interact, update, and query ES by forming a bridge between SMW and ES without the need to make any infrastructure or DB related changes to achieve a coherent integration. After consulting with Karsten, he quickly provided an ES instance for the sandbox [3] and for several weeks we have been running [2] as drop-in replacement for the query answering to evaluate and showcase its integration. As a user, you are ask to validate the interface by creating queries that work with the current SQLStore but do not with the ElasticStore [2]. We know [4] that for all existing test cases we gathered over the years, they pass and we are interested in those that don't. A side from adding [2] there are other bigger and smaller features [5] planned to be part of 3.0 but the documentation is yet missing and this should be resolved before announcing a new release. Furthermore, any major release (as indicated by changing from 2 to 3) opens an opportunity to introduce breaking changes and remove deprecated functions [0] but this as well remains an unresolved task. When can a release be expected? Well, it more or less depends on community involvement especially on the part of updating the documentation because as I outlined in [2], [2] requires additional effort and I will spend my volunteer time mostly on this task so it can be completed within Q2/2018. [0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/issues/1014 [1] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_scale_horizontally.html [2] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/pull/3054 [3] https://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org [4] https://travis-ci.org/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/jobs/348737223 [5] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/docs/RELEASE-NOTES.md Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
