Hi!
I've been working for a while now on splitting the code that does
searching - and more specifically, searching using
ElasticSearch/CirrusSearch - out from Wikibase extension code and into a
separate extension (see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190022). If
you don't know what I'm talking about here (or not interested in this
topic), you can safely skip the rest of this message.
The extension WikibaseCirrusSearch is meant to have all the code related
to ElasticSearch and CirrusSearch extension integration to Wikibase, so
main Wikibase repo does not have any Elastic-specific code. This means
that if you have your own Wikibase install, you'll need (after migration
is done) to install WikibaseCirrusSearch to get search functionality
like we have on Wikidata now. There will also be change in
configurations - I'll make a migration document and announce it
separately. We're now working on deploying and testing it on
Beta/testwiki, after which we'll start migrating production to running
the code in this extension for search, after which the search code in
the Wikibase repo itself will be removed. You can track the progress in
the Phabricator task mentioned above.
Since code migration is in pretty advanced stage now, I'd like to ask if
you make any changes to any code under repo/includes/Search or
repo/config in Wikibase repo, or any tests or configs related to those,
please inform me (by adding me to patch reviewers/CC or by email or by
any other reasonable means) so that these changes won't be lost in the
migration. I'll be looking into the latest patches for anything related
periodically, but I might miss things.
WikibaseLexeme code that relates to search will be also migrated to a
separate extension (WikibaseLexemeCirrusSearch), that work will be
starting soon. So the request above applies to the search parts of the
WikibaseLexeme code also.
If you have any questions/comments, please feel free to ask me, on the
lists or on the IRC.
Thanks,
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org