[p2pu-dev] Search in Lernanta

[zuzel.vp]

Whoosh was not fast enough in a django project I worked on before (the
indexing part was a big overhead for the server we were using at the time).
I once asked Paul about the results they had on some django-based mozilla
projects with the existing django apps for search and he told me they had
not found a good solution yet. We should probably check if they had added
some external dependency related to this to
https://github.com/mozilla/betafarm/. I used lucene in non-django non-web
scenarios with success. I will probably try out
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ as the backend. As a good point
http://haystacksearch.org/ will gives us enough flexibility to test
different free-text search backends.

-- 
Thanks,
    Zuzel

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:21 AM, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Good point Zuzel. Do you have any experience using an external indexing
> service? I know reddit uses indextank and have read good things about it:
> http://indextank.com/
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> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:29 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> and we will need to check the performance (indexing+search) of any
>> library we choose -- I have bad past experiences on how slow some of the
>> alternatives available with django are when working on production. If the
>> setup works nicely it will help a lot with content discovery on the site.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>     Zuzel
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:30 AM, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Jos,
>>>
>>> Right now there's nothing special about the P2PU site search, it's just
>>> using the Google index. Now that we've decided on separating content from
>>> groups we have a better idea of our underlying model structure and I think
>>> it will be pretty stable after the current changes..
>>>
>>> Once those changes are made, adding a search that is a bit more aware of
>>> our structure (challenge, group, peer, etc) would be a good idea. We've
>>> talked about using Lucene / Solr in the past but haven't gotten to it yet.
>>> Definitely a project a volunteer could start working on any time.
>>>
>>> In the meantime I've created a placeholder for it in the backlog:
>>> https://trello.com/c/anrdkvQM
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> John Britton
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>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>> just checking, is there any search library (the likes of haystack:
>>>> http://haystacksearch.org/ ) being used anywhere in Lernanta?
>>>> I see a custom search app but all I can see it doing is a redirection
>>>> to the search page (that uses Google underneath?).
>>>>
>>>> If not, any thoughts on how useful it would be? I could add it in as
>>>> part of the API search and it could be extended to the main app after
>>>> that if needed... would like to know what you guys think.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> José
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