Brion schreef:
The LuceneSearch extension should DIE DIE DIE. Do not update it or do any further development on it, please.
Instead, update the search front-end in MediaWiki with any necessary new interfaces to fully support a backend plugin for Lucene.
I agree that Lucene needs to be supported natively in core, but as long as it isn't, what's wrong with keeping people happy with a temporary module? The Lucene extension itself wasn't changed BTW.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:
I agree that Lucene needs to be supported natively in core, but as long as it isn't, what's wrong with keeping people happy with a temporary module? The Lucene extension itself wasn't changed BTW.
Lucene is a great example of an extension that should *not* be incorporated into the core software. 99.9% of MediaWiki users would have no use for it whatsoever; it's only useful for very large sites, and those need to install Java and so on.
Whether it should have better core support, or be rewritten, or whatever, is a separate issue.
Roan Kattouw wrote:
Brion schreef:
The LuceneSearch extension should DIE DIE DIE. Do not update it or do any further development on it, please.
Instead, update the search front-end in MediaWiki with any necessary new interfaces to fully support a backend plugin for Lucene.
I agree that Lucene needs to be supported natively in core, but as long as it isn't, what's wrong with keeping people happy with a temporary module? The Lucene extension itself wasn't changed BTW.
It shouldn't be supported in core; rather the already-existing extension interfaces should be extended to make sure that it works nifty.
The MWSearch extension provides a native MediaWiki search engine backend class which contacts our Lucene backend, but it hasn't been maintained in quite a while so I'm not 100% sure how nicely it works at this moment.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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