It seems to be non-trivial to setup CirrusSearch locally manually in a way where we have a setup similar to production. Lets find out how that would be using vagrant.

So setup vagrant, checkout the current patches from T274903: Change template search in VisualEditor to use standard search API and try with some test data.

Investigation success criteria:

• Patch "Show redirects as part of description in template search" successfully finds redirecttitle in api responses from the cirrussearch extension.
• Can be run locally or on the test instance. Even better, both.

Follow-up

• If successful,
  • Install on the test instance.
  • Port as a new docker-dev module.
• If unsuccessful,
  • Ask Discovery-Search team for guidance.