Support:Search Implementation

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

• Bug 460197 - Create deployment procedure from SVN for search *Nelson looking for help for this*
• Bug 460203 - Create initial template for new sumo search *Nelson looking for help for this*
• Get in touch with Sphinx to resolve: Bug 460205 - Certain characters in some languages cause new sumo search indexing to fail

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