On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 05:39, Clement Verna <cverna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
fedora-packages [0] code base is showing its age. The code base and
the technology stack (Turbogears2 [1] web framework and the Moksha
[2] middleware) is currently not ready for Python3 and I am not
planning to do the work required to make it Python3 compatible, so the
application will stop working when Fedora 29 is EOL.
In order to keep the service running, I have started a Proof Of
Concept (fedora-search [3]) to replace the backend of the application.
Fedora-search would be a REST API service offering full test search
API. Such a service would then be available for other application to
use, fedora-packages would then become a frontend only application
using the service provided by fedora-search.
While the POC shows that this is a viable solution, I don't think that
we should be proceeding that way, for the simple reason that this add
yet another code base to maintain, I think we should use this
opportunity to consider using Elasticsearch instead of maintaining our
own "search engine".
I think that Elasticsearch offers quite a few advantages :
- Powerful Query language
- Python bindings
- _javascript_ bindings
- Can be deployed in our infrastructure or used as a service
- Can be useful for other applications ( docs.fp.o, pagure, ??)
So what is the general feeling about using Elasticsearch in our
infrastructure ? Should we look at deploying a cluster in our infra /
Should we approach the Council to see if we can get founding to have
this service hosted by Elastic ?
Thanks
Clément
From an information point of view, the package-centric view of Fedora-packages is quite similar to the pagure dist-git. Would it worth investgating merging the front-end functionality of packages (lists of builds, bugs, updates, etc) into pagure dist-git, and retiring the Fedora packages front end?
—ry
[0] - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/
[1] - http://www.turbogears.org/
[2] - https://mokshaproject.github.io/mokshaproject.net/
[3] - https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-search
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