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

[Nanni B. <dig...@gm...>]

Option1 for sure! :)

2016-12-09 12:19 GMT+01:00 bolo dev <bol...@gm...>:

> Option 1 for a major version number
> Option 2 (read-only) could start the road to bloat.
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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