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

[Alessandro <ale...@gm...>]

For me, option 1 is good.
Like Alessandro Fiorenzi, I'd like to download the 4.2 release if needed.

Alessandro

On 12/08/2016 06:11 PM, Richard McCutcheon wrote:
> I vote for Option 2 (read-on), but would request that the new Autopsy
> version be incremented a whole number (to 5.0) to make it easy to
> ascertain which versions will be read-only.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Alessandro Fiorenzi
> <ale...@al...> wrote:
>> Autopsy is big project and I really prefer to have improvement of
>> performance or new feature instead of having  backword compatibility.
>> So for me option 1 is good  if all old version wil still be available as
>> today on https://sourceforge.net/projects/autopsy/files/autopsy/
>>
>>
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>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: Brian Carrier [mailto:ca...@sl...]
>> Inviato: martedì 6 dicembre 2016 16.00
>> A: sle...@li... users
>> <sle...@li...>
>> Oggetto: [sleuthkit-users] Solr / RegExp Update and Survey
>>
>> 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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