I love seeing this initiative/collaboration come from new community members!
Note that we have a Roadmap and it doesn't even have the word "vector" on it https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Roadmap IMO Updating this roadmap seems to me a useful outcome of this collaboration. Another possible task is to create JIRA issues and use consistent JIRA metadata for "vector" stuff. I think the JIRA "component" makes sense -- https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SOLR?selectedItem=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:components-page -- there is a bit of grooming to be done in our components by our committers (we have permission). Should these meetings be organized just like the monthly meetups? There doesn't have to be a Confluence page, however IMO the other aspects of the ceremony are useful -- publicize when the meeting happens and post a summary somewhere (e.g. dev list) for those that didn't attend. If this isn't done, a bunch of people may feel left out just simply wanting to know at a high level what's happening... but don't necessarily want to attend the meeting. Some months, that applies to me! ~ David On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A) < klian...@bloomberg.net> wrote: > Hello all, > > Alessandro and I were recently chatting about the current state of dense > vector search in Solr, as well as potential directions going forward. One > could argue whether there is a gap in the DVS feature space between Solr > and other vector DB peers, however we both agree that one of the factors > possibly limiting development in this area for Solr is lack of visibility / > coordination amongst contributors. > > To help encourage new improvements in this area, we would like to gauge > interest in a recurring group meeting to discuss dense vector and semantic > search. This would be an open invite to anyone who is currently working on > DVS, using DVS, or simply just interested in DVS/AI powered search. If you > would be interested in this, please reply to this email via the email > address you would like for communications going forward. > > Since several of us in the Solr community will be attending Berlin > Buzzwords in 2 weeks time, we aim to plan our first informal meeting at the > conference in-person. After that communication/gathering can be monthly or > ad-hoc depending on interest. > > Thanks all, > > Kevin
