On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Jens Frank <jf(a)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.