And anyone who, you know, really likes working with UI code please help making it better!
As of Solr 5.2, there is a new version of the Admin UI available, and several improvements are already in 5.2.1 (release imminent). The old admin UI is still the default, the new one is available at <solr_ip:port>/admin/index.html Currently, you will see very little difference at first glance; the goal for this release was to have as much of the current functionality as possible ported to establish the framework. Upayavira has done almost all of the work getting this in place, thanks for taking that initiative Upayavira! Anyway, the plan is several fold: > Get as much testing on this as possible over the 5.2 time frame. > Make the new Angular JS-based code the default in 5.3 > Make improvements/bug fixes to the admin UI on the new code line, > particularly SolrCloud functionality. > Deprecate the current code and remove it eventually. The new code should be quite a bit easier to work on for programmer types, and there are Big Plans Afoot for making the admin UI more SolrCloud-friendly. Now that the framework is in place, it should be easier for anyone who wants to volunteer to contribute, please do! So please give it a whirl. I'm sure there will be things that crop up, and any help addressing them will be appreciated. There's already an umbrella JIRA for this work, see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7666. Please link any new issues to this JIRA so we can keep track of it all as well as coordinate efforts. If all goes well, this JIRA can be used to see what's already been reported too. Note that things may be moving pretty quickly, so trunk and 5x will always be the most current. That said looking at 5.2.1 will be much appreciated. Erick
