Re: How do I present Blur

[Chris Rohr <ro...@gmail.com>]

Hi Mark,

I was one of the contributors most involved with the included GUI, but
unfortunately my daily work has not allowed me to focus on it for a long
while. If you would like to revive it, I would be happy to provide support
on why things were done and where I can, development support.

Happy New Year

Chris
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:24 PM Mark Kerzner <ma...@elephantscale.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to know how bad was it (wishing your family continuous good
> health), and if you are still interested in working on the project.
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <http://elephantscale.com/>
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>
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Aaron McCurry <am...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Mark Kerzner <ma...@elephantscale.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, Aaron,
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is what I think it needs.
> > >
> > > Update to latest Lucene. Why do you think it will be a major
> undertaking?
> > > Are you going to re-architect at the same time?
> > >
> >
> > If I were to do just perform the upgrade it might require some
> > re-architecting but I would hope it would be minimal.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Create a front end, maybe a service in AWS also.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed.  There was a GUI contrib a long time ago, but I'm sure it needs
> > some work at this point.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I can ask a friend who was considering using Blur, what stopped him. We
> > > will know what would people need.
> > >
> >
> > I'm always interested to know other people's reasoning.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I am interesting. My colleague at http://elephantscale.com/ might be
> > > interested too. I have a related project, https://github.com/shmsoft/
> > > FreeEed,
> > > and https://github.com/shmsoft/FreeEedUI. It 'd be good, potentially,
> to
> > > add Blur as a back end, an alternative to Solr.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, ok I will take a look.  Thanks.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Update the 2011 copyright. It needs to look alive and be alive.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Personnel reasons that you mention are people, not your personal
> > problems,
> > > I assume.
> > >
> >
> > No I didn't have issues with anyone in the project or outside the project
> > for that matter.  My job position changed and the new position hasn't
> > required me to work on search related tech yet.  Along with the job
> change
> > I have had to spend far more time at home due to a health related issue
> in
> > my family.
> >
> > Thanks for the questions and the comments!
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <http://elephantscale.com/>
> > > Book a call with me here <http://www.meetme.so/markkerzner>
> > > Mobile: 713-724-2534, Skype: mark.kerzner1
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Aaron McCurry <am...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > It is, but without a community of active developers it has become
> > > > stagnant.  For example the Lucene library version it utilizes has
> > become
> > > > outdated and it would likely be a major undertaking to update the
> code
> > > base
> > > > to the newest version.  The biggest reason for the low activity it
> > that I
> > > > haven't had time to work on the project due to personnel reasons.
> > > >
> > > > In it's current state is it very stable even at very large index
> sizes
> > > > however the upfront development effort to use Blur is very high by
> > > > comparison to ElasticSearch or Solr.  I believe this was the primary
> > > reason
> > > > Blur never really caught on in the community.
> > > >
> > > > Aaron
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Mark Kerzner <
> mark@elephantscale.com
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > But,
> > > > >
> > > > > Isn't Blur a new approach arguably better than SOLR and
> ElasticSearch
> > > for
> > > > > big sizes?
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark
> > > > >
> > > > > Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <http://elephantscale.com/
> >
> > > > > Book a call with me here <http://www.meetme.so/markkerzner>
> > > > > Mobile: 713-724-2534, Skype: mark.kerzner1
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Aaron McCurry <
> amccurry@gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Development has slowed to just the occasional bug fix and mail
> list
> > > > > > activity.  That's about it at this point.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Aaron
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Mark Kerzner <
> > > mark@elephantscale.com>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi, guys,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I teach SOLR, and I mention Blur as an alternative with a very
> > > > > > interesting
> > > > > > > and different approach.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What bothers me is somewhat low activity on the code. What is
> the
> > > > > > > incubating status of Blur?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thank you
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Mark Kerzner, President, Elephant Scale <
> > http://elephantscale.com/
> > > >
> > > > > > > Book a call with me here <http://www.meetme.so/markkerzner>
> > > > > > > Mobile: 713-724-2534, Skype: mark.kerzner1
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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