[Photon] Next steps

[Yohan Boniface]

On 06/09/2014 03:15 PM, Christoph Lingg [mobil] wrote:
> #2 search logic
> This is a little bit a black box for me as I am not aware of the current state of yohan's work. Can you give an update and an outlook? How can one support you? I thought we might make a small sprint (1-2 days) so we can work on it together? Some komoot background: in komoot we still use a very old version of photon (still solr) and have some severe bugs (even some big cities cannot be found) I am keen to work on a search logic that resolves those bugs (a basic version is already satisfying in the first step maybe without fuzzy). So I can easily justify towards komoot to work on this some days.

I'm in two weeks of Mozilla sprint, so no time at all until next 
week-end for me.
Code side, the summary is that 
https://github.com/komoot/photon/tree/positivescoring is the best search 
logic we had.
But custom similarity is still not working.
And I think we will want it in any case.
So one think that you can do to help is to make the plugin work 
(https://github.com/yohanboniface/elasticsearch-photon-similarity), 
because we will need to take control of TF/IDF (basically, we don't want 
it I think).
The other think is to add many search tests for Germany.
If there is hurry in the air, you can still remove the fuzzy part from 
any of the branches, and the good results will magically grow ;) But 
fuzzy is the current challenge ;)
I'm not sure I will work on photon next week-end, but for sure next week.
I'm planning a new sprint on photon in Paris on June 28/29th, on Mozilla 
office, could you join maybe?