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Support:Search Implementation

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The implementation for new SUMO search will run from October 20 to November 30.

The main bug: bug 405028

All bugs that are needed for SUMO search deployment will be made dependent on this bug.

General Strategy

  • The new search will be deployed in parallel to the old search, so it does not replace the old search but is an add-on.
  • The new search will be available once ready at a different URL from the old search
  • To phase in the deployment, users will be "chosen" to use the new search randomly. A cookie can be saved with this info to make it less disruptive to users. On the new search results, there will be a message to say that this is a new search that is being tested, and link to go back to the old search (I've seen Google test apps this way).

Major Targets

October 27

  • Search UI will be ready for review
  • Method of deploying search system to be tested

November 3

  • Search engine to be ready on support-stage (security by obscurity will apply - you need to know the special url to get to it)
  • Initial QA on support-stage to begin

November 10

  • Search UI to be finalized
  • Search indexing procedure to be finalized
  • Search engine to be ready on production (security by obscurity will apply - you need to know the special url to get to it)
  • Continued QA on production

November 17

  • Testing of different search indexing to begin

November 24

  • Documentation of different results of different search indexing parameters done

December 1

  • Search is ready for real live users progressive testing

December 15

  • Complete cut-over to new search


Weekly Schedule

October 20-26

  • Install latest Sphinx on khan
  • Create template for new search page
  • Run test indexing on khan
  • Get in touch with Sphinx to resolve certain unicode char problem

Week of October 27

  • Deploy new search engine to support-stage
  • Run test indexing on support-stage
  • Do testing of search performance on test cluster

Week of November 3

  • Implement memcaching for search
  • Test performance with memcache

Week of November 10

  • Deploy to production
  • Implement generic filter by categories
  • Test different indexing parameters on support-stage

Week of November 17

  • Performance testing on production
  • Implement enhanced memcache logic for new search

Week of November 24

  • Backup week in case we need to do more testing
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