> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Daniel Friesen > <dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com>wrote: > >> Wait, Elasticsearch? I thought the original discussions were about Solr?
Chad wrote: > Original discussions were with Solr. We evaluated both and went with > Elastic. The Solr attempt is in the 'solr' branch on the git repo. On 08/15/2013 08:42 PM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > > It certainly started that way but there were but some rather insistent > folks talked me in to giving Elasticsearch a chance. I spent a week > putting together a prototype and I was so impressed that I convinced us to > move over. I'm reasonably sure I sent out an email at the time. I know I > updated the RFC. In any case, that is where we are. > > As far what impressed me about elasticsearch: > I like the documentation. > I like the query syntax. > I like the fully baked schema api. > I (mostly) liked the source code itself. > i like the deb package. > I like how organized the bug submission and contribution process is. > Seriously, if you are running an open source project, build something like > http://www.elasticsearch.org/contributing-to-elasticsearch/ . Forcing the > user to reproduce bugs with curl is genius for a service like elasticsearch. > > So, yeah, we started with solr but didn't stay there. > > Nik Nik, Chad, thanks for the explanation! Daniel, the July monthly WMF engineering report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/July and previous monthly engineering reports included summaries of where the search investigation was going. You can read more specifically about search at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/status . Hope that helps. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
