Re: [sleuthkit-users] Solr / RegExp Update and Survey

[Danilo M. <da...@gm...>]

Option 1.
Autopsy lets to keep earlier versions, so it wouldn't a big deal to open
old cases up with proper old ones.

Em 6 de dez de 2016 13:01, "Brian Carrier" <ca...@sl...> escreveu:

> I have an update Solr / Elastic / regular expression work and a question
> about backward compatibility.
>
> Update: We’re sticking with Solr and will be breaking text into 32KB
> chunks to use a different regular expression searching approach that gives
> us better results. It is actually faster than before!
>
> Question: How much backward compatibility are people expecting? We have
> three general options:
> - no backward compatibility: You need to have  Autopsy 4.2 to open
> existing 4.2 cases.  Existing cases are not upgraded. We’d probably need to
> call this release Autopsy 5 to make it clear what can open what. I’m not
> sure there are enough new features to justify such a major version increase.
> - read-only: Autopsy 4.2 cases can be opened in the new Autopsy (let’s
> call it 4.3), but only searched.  You can’t add new data sources to it and
> it would have the old regular expression searching. If you need to add Data
> Sources, open the case up in 4.2.
> - fully: Autopsy converts the old schema to the new schema (a time
> intensive process). You could open Autopsy cases originally created with
> 4.2 in 4.3 and add to them.
>
> I’ll bias this thread by saying my preference is the read-only approach.
> It’s the least amount of work to provide some level of backward
> compatibility.  Historically, we have always upgraded cases to work with
> new versions of Autopsy.  This is just a lot of work to fully upgrade and
> it isn’t clear that there is a lot of value in doing it.
>
> Who would be sad if we did the read-only approach?
>
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