On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
My comments are based mostly on second hand knowledge. People who have tried have often ran into problems, asked for help on #mediawiki, and nobody knowing anything that can help them. Probably a large part of the issue is requiring people to install a separate (non-php) program that's not all that well documented.
Well there's only so much we can do for people who are on shared hosting with only FTP and a database at their disposal. We could maybe improve SearchMysql a bit, but that's not really a goal with this project as we'd never use it on WMF sites.
Solr, while still an external dependency, at least doesn't require people to build and configure a basically undocumented WMF-specific system to have a sane search.
-Chad