Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2025-05-23
Highlights
Shipped: did we release anything this week?
N/A
Blockers: does this essential workstream have any unresolved blockers or dependencies? is anything preventing us from doing our work?
- We have worked on improvements to Telegu mappings in Lucene, we are having issues sending those upstream. This isn't a blocker as such, we are able to patch the code and modify configuration for ourselves. See https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/14659
- Again, not really a blocker: Upstreaming changes to OpenSearch is slow, due to slow CI and flaky tests. This is a change from contributing to OpenSearch vs contributing to Elasticsearch. See https://metrics.opensearch.org/_dashboards/app/dashboards#/view/e5e64d40-ed31-11ee-be99-69d1dbc75083
Lessons learned: Did we learn anything in the course of doing this work that can be applied to other work?
N/A
Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?
N/A
What else was accomplished in this essential workstream this week?
Search Abandonment investigation
- T385971 [SPIKE Can the results of abandoned query analysis be used to improve MLR performance? (Resolved)] - No great ideas came out of this spike
Misc / Operations
- T385841 Make Recipe namespace in Russian Wikibooks shown in search results in Wikipedia (Resolved)
- T394342 mwgrep fails with elastic1073.eqiad.wmnet: Name or service not known (Declined) - this failure mode is rare enough and transient
- T385525 iOS converts quotation marks into curly quotation marks (Resolved) - done by the Web Team