I heard a story that the 'r' in Solr back in the CNet days stood for
Resin (the servlet container). True? Clearly the "w/ replication"
makes more sense now as probably both Tomcat and Jetty deployments are
more common now.
Just curious,
Sean
Chris Hostetter wrote:
: Can we spell out the authoritative case for this project as Solr? SOLR as an
: acronym, ewww - Searching on Lucene * - Realfast? Reliably? Replicated?
:
: Worth spelling out in our website or on the wiki?
We have in the FAQ -- but we could make hte wording stronger...
What does Solr stand for?
Arguably, it stands for "Searching On Lucene w/Replication"
-- but it should not be considered an acronym.
I think the real problem is that:
1) people are use to short project names being acronyms
2) Jira using capitalized issue keys reinforces that assumption (nobody
assumes "LUCENE" is an acronym just because it's capitalized, but
they do when they see "SOLR")
Other then Jira, I don't think you'll find the word Solr in all caps
anywhere on our site or in our documentation. We can't really help itwhen
other people refer to it that way on the mailing list or in blogs (unless
we want to come off as really obnoxious branding snobs ... this happens a
lot in the Perl community where there is a subtle distinction between
"Perl" the language and "perl" the executable, and it tends to really come
off as insulting to new novice users.)
-Hoss
