Support:Search v3
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This document refers to the search rewrite of Q4 2009.
Goals
- Improve index time (should be able to index at least once/hour).
- Move from Sphinx 0.9.8 to 0.9.9.
- Replace xmlpipe2 with direct SQL access.
- Improve advanced search.
- Implement new UI. [1]
- Meaningful options for both knowledge base and forums.
- Improve spelling suggestions.
- Move from SOUNDEX to Aspell.
- Dramatically improve suggestions.
- Will hopefully improve performance.
- Move from SOUNDEX to Aspell.
Timeline
Search v3 is the primary goal of SUMO 1.5. Our current goal is to code freeze on November 24th and release on December 1st.
Code
The Search v3 branch is stored in
https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/sumo/branches/search
There is a dedicated staging server running Sphinx 0.9.9 at
http://sumo-forumux.stage.mozilla.com/
The username/password is "support"/"stage".