On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Jens Frank jf@mormo.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
I'm capable of doing commits, but not setting anything up on the site. For my part, adding category intersection functionality for core is probably the next significant thing I'd do, given some time to spend on development work (which may or may not be available soon). I would add it using MySQL fulltext in core (and PostgreSQL support also belongs in core, if someone wants to write that), but with a pluggable backend.
MySQL fulltext search is only available in MyISAM. MyISAM has very poor locking support. We can't use it for the WMF server farm.
Yup, thus the pluggable backend. (Although Brion suggested that maybe MyISAM could be tried on Wikimedia for this.) Something like Lucene isn't suitable for support in core.