On 20-Nov-07, at 8:51 PM, Tracy Flynn wrote:
I'm trying to find the right place to start in this community.
I recently posted a question in the thread on SOLR-236. In that
posting I mentioned that I was hoping to persuade my management to
move from a FAST installation to a SOLR-based one. The changeover
was approved in principle today.
Great! Welcome to the Solr world.
Our application is a large Rails application. I integrated Solr and
created a proof-of-concept that covered almost all existing
functionality and projected new functionality for 2008.
So, I have a few requests for information and possibly help.
I will need the result collapsing described in SOLR 236 to deploy
Solr. It's an absolute requirement. I understand that it's to be
available in Solr 1.3. Is there updated information for the
timetable for Solr 1.3, and what's to be included?
Not exactly. It mostly depends on what is stable and tested in the
next few months. It also depends somewhat on the timing of the next
lucene release.
One of the main dependencies for SOLR-236 has been committed to
trunk, so in theory it should be relatively easy to patch a copy of
solr yourself to add the needed functionality. One of the great
things about Solr is that you can add your own plugins and handlers
relatively easily (for instance, you could add the patch locally to
your copy to create the demo).
The best way to help is to try out the patch, make sure it applies,
see if the functionality is working, and review the code changes.
Review is usually the biggest bottleneck in open-source development.
I would very much also like to have SOLR 103 - SQL Upload plugin
available, though I think I have a work around if it isn't in Solr
1.3.
This one is less likely as it depends on other components which are
not yet included.
-Mike
