: 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.
this thread reminded me of some stuff i've in the back of my mind about "contributing" in ways other then writing code ... i've added it to the wiki... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute -Hoss
