Continuous update on progress of "New SolrCloud Design" work

[Per Steffensen]

Hi

My guess is that the work for acheiving 
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/NewSolrCloudDesign has begun on branch 
"solrcloud". It is hard to follow what is going on and how to use what 
has been acheived - you cannot follow the examples on 
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud anymore (e.g. there is no 
shard="shard1" in solr/example/solr/solr.xml anymore). Will it be 
possible to maintain a how-to-use section on 
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/NewSolrCloudDesign with examples, e.g. like 
to ones on http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud, on how to use it, that 
"at any time" reflects how to use whats on the HEAD of "solrcloud" branch?

In my project we are about to start using something else that 
ElasticSearch, and SolrCloud is an option, but there is a lot to be done 
in Solr(Cloud) before it is even comparable with ElasticSearch wrt 
features. If we choose to go for SolrCloud we would like to participate 
in the development of the new SolrCloud, and add features corresponding 
to stuff that we used to use in ElasticSearch, but it is very hard to 
contribute to SolrCloud if it is "black box" (that only a few persons 
know about) work going on on branch "solrcloud" getting us from 
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud to 
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/NewSolrCloudDesign.

Regards, Per Steffensen