Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-08-01 Thread Mark Miller
Lance Norskog wrote: One of Parkinson's Laws is that the most trivial item on the agenda receives the most attention. Don't doubt the law, don't doubt the logo is trivial, certainly doubt its receiving more attention than the code.

RE: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Lance Norskog
One of Parkinson's Laws is that the most trivial item on the agenda receives the most attention.

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I'd prefer that the community decide on the best logo. > : Choosing #3 on a simple majority when there were 6 variants of #2 to > : split the vote, doesn't feel fair. > : The fair thing to me looks like a runoff betwe

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I'd prefer that the community decide on the best logo. : Choosing #3 on a simple majority when there were 6 variants of #2 to : split the vote, doesn't feel fair. : The fair thing to me looks like a runoff between #2 and #3. Agreed, but I'd suggest including #9 as well. Between #9,10&11 ther

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess we should choose the one with maximum number of votes. I'd prefer that the community decide on the best logo. Choosing #3 on a simple majority when there were 6 variants of #2 to split the vote, doesn't fee

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
I'm hesitant to do another poll. It can only delay things. We have only 17 issues left to resolve in 1.3 out of which 3-4 are almost cooked and we must focus on the rest. Since the ones in the poll were the only designs available and keeping in mind that everyone got ample time to cast their vote,

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Sean Timm
So how about a run off between #2 (straight line family member with most votes) and #3 (normal font)? -Sean Yonik Seeley wrote: OK, so looking at family totals: 33 - the curvy family (9,10,11) 36 - #3 (normal font) 64 - straight line family Again 36 and 64 aren't directly comparable since

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
OK, so looking at family totals: 33 - the curvy family (9,10,11) 36 - #3 (normal font) 64 - straight line family Again 36 and 64 aren't directly comparable since #3 was the only representative for it's family (hence no one would vote for it as 1st and 2nd best). -Yonik On Thu, Jul 31, 2008

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Updated with second preference votes, total votes and corresponding charts. http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 3

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Some comments: >> The "straight line" family: 29 votes >> #3 (the "normal font" one): 21 votes >> >> *but* everyone got two votes (right

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Ok, sorry for the confusion. Yes everybody got two votes (the best-fit and second-best). The stats I posted are only for the best-fit image. I shall post the stats for the second-best fit image too. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Very cool. At this point, I guess what we should do is call a vote for the > committers (on solr-dev) nominating the highest vote getter as the new Solr > logo. > Ah, alright then. I shall start a vote for committers on

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some comments: > The "straight line" family: 29 votes > #3 (the "normal font" one): 21 votes > > *but* everyone got two votes (right?). If these published vote totals > represent both votes, then #3 was disadvantaged by ha

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Very cool. At this point, I guess what we should do is call a vote for the committers (on solr-dev) nominating the highest vote getter as the new Solr logo. On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: Stats have been added. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Shalin Shekhar M

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
Some comments: The "straight line" family: 29 votes #3 (the "normal font" one): 21 votes *but* everyone got two votes (right?). If these published vote totals represent both votes, then #3 was disadvantaged by having only one representative of it's "family" there. So odds are, if people had only

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Stats have been added. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the results > http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html > > I'll post the stats shortly too. > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:31 PM,

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Here are the results http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html I'll post the stats shortly too. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've closed the poll. 71 votes have

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've closed the poll. 71 votes have come in. I'll publish statistics > shortly. How did this turn out? We're running out of time if anyone wants to make changes in time for 1.3 -Yonik > Not sure if it would be

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-31 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Yeah, no names. Also, I think we need a "Solr-Powered" logo, too, that people can use to display, if they want, that shows they are using Solr. On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: I've closed the poll. 71 votes have come in. I'll publish statistics shortly. Not sur

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-26 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
I've closed the poll. 71 votes have come in. I'll publish statistics shortly. Not sure if it would be ok to publish the spreadsheet itself since it contains names -- I don't want any privacy lawsuits ;) On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 54 votes

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-23 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
54 votes and counting! Let's give it one more day and close it tomorrow (July 24, 2008) Preliminary results may bias the poll :) On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about releasing the preliminary results so we can see if a run-off > is in order! > > On

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Harris
How about releasing the preliminary results so we can see if a run-off is in order! On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My opinion: if its already a runaway, we might as well not prolong things. > If not though, we should probably give some time for any possib

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Miller
Chris Hostetter wrote: : http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html Except the existing Solr logo isn't on that list. i smell election tampering :) I had put it in my poll :) I actually considered bringing that up to Shalin as well, but couldn't bring myself to be so fair I suppose Serious

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Hostetter
: http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html Except the existing Solr logo isn't on that list. i smell election tampering :) Seriously though: I realized a long time ago that there was too much email to reply too, too many features to work on, too many patches to review, and too few hours in

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Miller
My opinion: if its already a runaway, we might as well not prolong things. If not though, we should probably give some time for any possible laggards. The 'admin look' poll received its first 19-20 votes in the first night / morning, and has only gotten 2 or 3 since then, so probably no use goi

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-22 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
28 votes so far and counting! When should we close this poll? On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perfect! Thank you Shalin. Much appreciated, and a dead simple system. My > vote is in. > > - Mark > > > Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: > >> Will this do? A 1-5 f

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Miller
Perfect! Thank you Shalin. Much appreciated, and a dead simple system. My vote is in. - Mark Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: Will this do? A 1-5 for each image is difficult but I guess this goes 80% with 20% effort :) http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:23 AM,

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Will this do? A 1-5 for each image is difficult but I guess this goes 80% with 20% effort :) http://people.apache.org/~shalin/poll.html On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about a form that has a "1 to 5" radio button option beside each logo > and a box

RE: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Wagner,Harry
Mark, No worries, you are still way ahead of electronic voting! -Original Message- From: Mark Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:37 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Vote on a new solr logo Sorry you can't vote guys - makes me look realy

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Klaas
How about a form that has a "1 to 5" radio button option beside each logo and a box to enter your name? -Mike On 21-Jul-08, at 11:43 AM, Mark Miller wrote: I looked for a long time for an easy free image polling system, and couldn't find much beyond shareware. I am still looking for somet

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Miller
I looked for a long time for an easy free image polling system, and couldn't find much beyond shareware. I am still looking for something though... Ryan McKinley wrote: nor does http://selectricity.org/ On Jul 21, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: Too bad the polls created with

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Ryan McKinley
nor does http://selectricity.org/ On Jul 21, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: Too bad the polls created with Google docs don't support images in them (or atleast i couldn't figure out how to do it) On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Ryan McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Miller
Sorry you can't vote guys - makes me look realy smart eh I can vote even when I log out of the admin section, so I am clueless why you cannot. But I am going to fix things somehow and add those new logos for consideration. - Mark Ryan McKinley wrote: I can't figure how to use the poll eith

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Too bad the polls created with Google docs don't support images in them (or atleast i couldn't figure out how to do it) On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Ryan McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't figure how to use the poll either... > > here are a few others to check out: > http://lapnap

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Ryan McKinley
I can't figure how to use the poll either... here are a few others to check out: http://lapnap.net/solr/ perhaps "a" and "f" could live together, you use 'a' if you need a background other then white On Jul 21, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Mike Klaas wrote: On 20-Jul-08, at 6:19 PM, Mark Miller wrote

Re: Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Klaas
On 20-Jul-08, at 6:19 PM, Mark Miller wrote: From the dev list: Shalin Shekhar Mangar: +1 for a new logo. It's a new release, let's have a new logo too! First step is to decide which one of these is more Solr-ish. I'm looking to improve the look of solr, so I am going to do my best to p

Vote on a new solr logo

2008-07-20 Thread Mark Miller
From the dev list: Shalin Shekhar Mangar: +1 for a new logo. It's a new release, let's have a new logo too! First step is to decide which one of these is more Solr-ish. I'm looking to improve the look of solr, so I am going to do my best to push this process along. Not to keep shoving polls