Discovery/Status updates/2018-04-02

This is the weekly update for the week starting 2018-03-26 and 2018-04-02

Discussions

Stas finished up the work to enable the query builder hook so that using label & description index for fulltext searches work [1]
Erik worked on boosting search results with exact phrase match and updated the models to one that is significantly less expensive [2]
We completed a task for an in-place reindex to all wikis to pick up new trigram index for title and redirect.title field [3]
Trey finished his review of Slovak Morphological Libraries [4][5]
David completed a forceSearchIndex on testwiki, mediawikiwiki, labswiki, labtestwiki, svwiki, and everything on Beta Cluster [6]
Trey added support for external stemmer to Analyzer Analysis tools [7]
David did work to make all SearchKeywords a subclass of SimpleKeywordFeature, to remove and centralize all the parsing logic out of these classes [8]
David also corrected a CirrusSearch Error "An error has occurred while searching" that was due to a comma used as decimal separator [9]

Chelsy finished up the a report on analyzing the results of query explorer AB test [10] [11]

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