On Sat, 1 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> My vote is that we release 3.2.0b6 basically as the code stands now, 
> and then start 3.3.0a1 by back-porting features to 3.1.6.  For each, 
> we'll measure the impact on performance, and decide which ones are 
> worth it.
> 
> Thoughts?

If it is decided that development on the 3.2 branch is to be more or less
abandoned, I would suggest that we consider backporting only those pieces
that are most key to improving the usefulness of 3.1, which I believe to a
large extent consists of providing support for phrase searching and
perhaps addressing 32-bit limits imposed on database size. This of course
assumes that it is even feasible to do this without ripping the existing
code to shreds. If it is possible, I would suggest leaving the resulting
version on the 3.1 branch and then taking a step back and putting a lot of
thought into where to head with any 3.3 branch. Perhaps take a look at
other projects that could benefit future development (e.g. lucene and its
derivatives), other sorts of packaging (e.g. libraries, search engine
server), and what in general is happening these days with regard to search
products and technology.


Jim


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