Re: development status

On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Ferenc P=E1pai wrote:

> hello XIndice team,

Hi Ferenc,

That's "Xindice" - lowercase "i" ;-)


> May I ask what is the development status of the project?
> The last svn commit happened 5 month ago, contributors are less and =20=

> less...
>
> We used XIndice for the last 5 years. It served us pretty well, =20
> however we started to have scalability issues lately due to large =20
> amount of data. I am afraid that we might need to jump to another =20
> database if there won't be new developments.

People come and people go, and development depends on desires and =20
needs of people like you and me. All people can contribute to any of =20
the Apache projects, and there are many ways to do it. Those who can =20
code can send patches to make improvements, and those who can not can =20=

send bug reports or suggestions or help with testing.

Since you are seeing scalability issues, you are in a good position to =20=

contribute something back to Xindice - you can get the latest Xindice =20=

code from the SVN and see how your database runs there. There were few =20=

modifications since the latest release which should make Xindice run =20
faster on larger databases. If you are still experiencing scalability =20=

issues even with the latest version, then, depending on your =20
abilities, you can either develop a patch to the Xindice or help other =20=

developers identify the problem and fix this performance issue.


> So far we use version 1.1 but found bugs in it that seems to be =20
> corrected in 1.2m1.
> Would you recommend the use of 1.2m1 in production environment?

It mostly depends on you. Personally, I would run trunk version of =20
Xindice, because it has several fixes on top of 1.2m1 release. If you =20=

don't need these fixes, you can run 1.2m1. Of course, regardless of =20
what version you choose, you should test it before you put it in =20
production.

Regards,
Vadim=