transferred from http://drupal.org/node/1090080
Please Make your notes or changes inline, preferably to reflect IRC or other more rea-time discussions.
We had a BoF and many discussion at Drupalcon Chicago 2011, here's the take away:
- Abandon any attempt to keep the schema in sync with 6.x-1.x and remove most or all node-specific fields. Mostly done at http://drupal.org/node/1088208
- get some Views integration asap (volunteers?)
- support multiple sorts
- Move filter URL params from ?filters= to multiple ?f[]= params
- Improve UI w.r.t. settings per server
- Make it possible to export/import server settings.
- Once 7.x-1.x is stabilized, mark 6.x-2.x as unsupported and forward/back port as appropriate to create a 6.x-3.x branch with a schema in sync with 7.x as a basis for mixed 6.x/7.x multisite search.
- Abandon 6.x-2.x branch
- ideally, remove all facet block code and add integration with Facet API module
- Verify date faceting works correctly and/or if it can be improved.
- test suite including a basic site structure with node content, taxonomy vocabularies, etc. Could steal some code from the D6->D7 upgrade path testing.
- strip away unused code
- look at upgrade path from 6.x to 7.x branch
- Document schema fields, changes.
- Add general documentation to code.