Aug. 21, 2025
3:22 p.m.
l.reilly@ucl.ac.uk writes:
We have some pretty large archives that need migrating over from Mailman 2.1 so Whoosh might have not been ideal.
In the migration I mentioned earlier, Xapian indexing of archives was by far the most time-consuming part. At that time I was unable to find a way to work backward (most searches are for recent posts), so I modified the scripts to (1) not index while migrating the posts and (2) prioritize the most active small-archive lists for indexing. I'm not sure I have copies of those scripts any more though.
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