Hi all,
If you haven't been following along with development, we're working on
replacing
MWSearch/lsearchd with CirrusSearch (powered by Elasticsearch). Nik and I
been working on this for the last several weeks and now it's ready for
wider testing
outside of labs.
This is invitation for you to play with some totally alpha software and
report all
kinds of bugs you may find. So hop on over to
https://test2.wikipedia.organd
mess around with Special:Search and the API's list search and prefix search.
When testing this, it's useful to compare results from the old and new
engines.
I added some query parameters that let you toggle between them. Just add
srbackend=LuceneSearch|CirrusSearch to force one or the other.
All bugs can be filed in BZ under the CirrusSearch component[0]. Depending
on how things go, we'd like to roll this out for
mw.org on the 28th. Happy
bug
hunting :D
-Chad
[0]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…