Everyone,
I'm reviving this old thread to update everyone on the status of the RFC:
We've continued working on implementation and everything seems to be proceeding smoothly. We evaluated Elasticsearch and were super impressed and decided it was very likely to be worth switching from Solr4 to it. The evaluation and the switch did cost some time but in my opinion doing it was time well spent.
Thanks so much for your comments a month ago when I first posted this. If you are interested please give the page another look. Just to be helpful, here is a link to what I changed: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_comment%2FCirrusSear...
Nik Everett
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.orgwrote:
So Chad and I feel like we've gotten far enough in our prototype of our new search backend for MediaWiki that we're ready to request comments. So here is our format RFC: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CirrusSearch
You'll note that the plugin is called CirrusSearch. SolrSearch seems to have been taken by an unrelated project so we had to pick a different name.
Please read and comment in whatever way is normal for these things.
Thanks so much for your attention,
Nik Everett