Duplicate plugins - FTS Xapian

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 31/08/2021 13:59 Tom Hendrikx <tom at whyscream.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 31-08-2021 12:01, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > 
> >> On 31/08/2021 10:56 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> Am Dienstag, dem 31.08.2021 um 10:33 +0300 schrieb Aki Tuomi:
> >>>
> >>>> On 31/08/2021 00:11 Joan Moreau <jom at grosjo.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi
> >>>> There seems to be 2 plugins doing the same thins
> >>>> - https://github.com/slusarz/dovecot-fts-flatcurve/
> >>>> - https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ (mine)
> >>>> Both are in the doc of dovecot
> >>>> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/
> >>>>
> >>>> I am currently working hard to push it to RPM package, and plugin
> >>>> is already approved by ArchLinux and Debian
> >>>>
> >>>> Isn't there double work here ?
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> JM
> >>>
> >>> If you look closer, you can see they are not exactly duplicates.
> >>> Flatcurve works differently than your plugin.
> >>>
> >>> Aki
> >>
> >> Is there somewhere a direct comparison of them?
> >> I currenty use fts-xapian from Joan without problems.
> >> But what would be the advantages of fts-flatcurve over fts-xapian?
> > 
> > fts_flatcurve does only full word searching, although you can use fts_filters and fts_tokenizers settings to affect stemming and other matching to make it work with plurals and such.
> > 
> > Both plugins have their merits.
> 
> I still think it's weird to see that Open-Xchange starts a FTS Xapian 
> plugin with mostly the same basic functionality that is already 
> available in an existing plugin maintained by someone in the community 
> Especially if that happens without any (apparent) communication with the 
> existing plugin developer to find out whether fixing the issues that 
> slusarz/Open-Xchange seem to have with the existing plugin, can be fixed.
> 
> Combining forces just seems a better way to spend scarce development 
> resources than building something similar (but different) without any 
> communication.
> 
> (Note: I don't use any of these plugins).
> 
> My 2 cents,
> 
> 	Tom

Just for clarity, Open-Xchange has not written any xapian plugin whatsoever. 

Aki