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). You'll probably find something undocumented, missing a test or two or in a need of good example. Do that and learn and contribute. >From my own point of view, we could always get more help with the user-oriented features as opposed to low-level advanced implementations. But if you need a specific start point, take any of the examples Solr shipped with and read every line and try every feature. That will both teach you a lot and probably find something you do not understand even with all the documentation available (text_rev?). Improve on that and every other beginner will benefit too. Regards, Alex. ---- Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: http://www.solr-start.com/ On 7 September 2016 at 10:45, Charan Kooram <charan.koo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 going through bugs listed feature by feature and come > up with solutions for them ? > > For instance, in a recent internship, I had to use Apache solr to provide a > custom search solution for an enterprise. Where I use many of the solr > search features like highlighting, dataimporthandler, facets, solrcloud. > > Should i start off my going through the bugs listed in highlighted and > understand the source code for the problem ? > > Any suggestions for starting off are extremely welcome. > > Regards, > Charan. > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 PDFs, etc). >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> ---- >> Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: >> http://www.solr-start.com/ >> >> >> On 7 September 2016 at 10:26, Charan Kooram <charan.koo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Just checking if I am in the right mailing list. I am a new Solr user. I >> > have been using Apache Solr since May 2016. I wanted to collaborate with >> > other users of this software. Am i in the right mailing list ? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Charan. >>
