Lucene support for FTS - EOL date.

[Aki Tuomi]

Hi!

fts-lucene and fts-squat are going to be removed in next major release, which is going to be released this year. We are planning to add xapian  based replacement for lucene.

Aki

> On 05/02/2022 23:33 Jacek Grabowski <grabsoon at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We are talking about the large-scale commercial use of Dovecot + lucene as an FTS.
> MIgration to SOLR is some kind of challenge that will take some time.
> I'm trying to find out how much time I have.
> On the one hand i would like to use only the newest version of Dovecot but on the other hand i'm not able to switch fts from lucene to solr in the near future
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> sob., 5 lut 2022 o 21:26 Stuart Henderson <stu.lists at spacehopper.org> napisał(a):
> > On 2022-02-05, Jacek Grabowski <grabsoon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > Ok but I have to know the date (approximate) when support for lucene will
> >  > be removed completely from dovecot.
> >  > Does anyone know when this will happen? It is scheduled in some version in
> >  > the future maybe?
> >  
> >  Why not assume that it could be removed at the next release and make
> >  plans to migrate to a maintained FTS engine? If dovecot-fts-lucene is
> >  currently working for you then dovecot-fts-flatcurve might be a good
> >  alternative. (Another option is to not update. You might think that's
> >  a bad idea, but with fts-lucene you already on something which is
> >  outdated so that isn't new).
> >  
> >  
> > 
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> Pozdrawiam.
> Jacek Grabowski.