I am very much interested in the area and we have a plan towards making Solr suitable for vector search applications.
> If you > would be interested in this, please reply to this email via the email > address you would like for communications going forward. However, I think we should keep the communications on this list itself, given how we have communicated in the past. On Tue, 3 Jun, 2025, 12:59 am David Smiley, <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >
