Start with something you are passionate about. Solr is big and complex
enough that doing something just because you want to contribute is
just going to make your head explode.
Pick an interesting topic you have experience with and do a vertical
understanding of it (from UI to source code to test).
I see. I will be sure to check the other lists too. Thank you.
What I am inclined to achieve this fall is may be to have a better
understanding of the source code and
if possible contribute some changes.
Could someone point me in the starting direction how I go about this ?
Should I start off by
You are right where you should be. Welcome.
The other (dev) list is for developers, so those who improve Solr and
Lucene itself.
If you use specific 3rd party software, they may have additional lists
of their own. Same, if you rely on something like Tika heavily (used
by Solr to extract data from
Hi David,
Start Solr from jetty first, then check the following:
1. your war file is placed outside of the normal webapps
2. your content file, solr.xml is written properly. In the case you are not
sure, use absolute path
3. copy and paste the trace after SEVERE, especially the last line. If you
One easy way is to put the solr folder with configuration files (schema.xml,
solrconfig.xml)
in the folder where you start Tomcat from. For example, i have the following
folder structure -
--> Tomcat Home
--> solr
--> conf (contains the configuration files)
--> bin
I copied over t
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:51 AM, David Geller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Honestly. Any help would be *much* appreciated but shouldn't Tomcat be
> the easiest way to run SOLR?
The easiest way to run Solr is:
cd example
java -jar start.jar
If you want to set it up with Tomcat yourself, see the
