On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an nearly minimal config for Solr 4.9, 5.5 and 6.2 at: > https://github.com/arafalov/simplest-solr-config/ . They are _quite_ > feature minimal (6.2 does not even have ID or version), but they will > import and search example/exampledocs/*.xml without fuss > > I challenge you to guess number of lines they take before looking :-) > > As to minimal examples, I think that's absolutely the next step. Did > you ever notice that we don't even get too many question on the Solr > Users mailing list about the example - I suspect it is because people > get lost so fast they don't even know how to ask the questions. > SOLR-9601 will be my next experiment for that. > > As to kitchen-sync vs the examples, maybe we need a "configuration" > configset that will have all the definitions and then have > Admin/Velocity/whatever UI that allows user pick a definition and > existing core on the same server and it will the > type/field/configuration command to that core. It is definitely doable > for schema. For solrconfig it is a bit more challenging as not > everything is API controlled yet and API itself - in my mind - is > still very raw. The support files is a small challenge too for > non-cloud mode. But this could be the dogfood project to fix that. > > So, as a workflow, it would be: > 1) bin/solr create -c mycore -d minimal_config > 2) Experiment to the limit of that core's configuration (initial types, etc) > 3) bin/solr create -c config -d configuration > 4) Use the new core's enhanced UI to do whatever is needed to mycore > 5) bin/solr delete -c config > 6) Continue working with mycore > > The other similar idea is a 3rd party solr config wizard that walks > the user through the choices and generates config files with/without > comments/links to ref guide. Then, it is not limited to Solr file > layout. On the other hand, people need to know the tool exists.... > > Regards, > Alex. > P.s. I will try very hard to be at the meetup on Tuesday, so will be > very happy to have an in-depth discussion about this topic
I was thinking about working on something like this but I just asked the nutch list if anything like this existed. Does it? Is there anyway to configure lets say SOLR and nutch with a GUI util? I remember back in the day configuring eggdrops and I was very happy that everything was there to comment out if needed. It made understanding configuration easy. What do the SOLR default configs look like right now? Are there comments?
