Happy to help! Cheers,
Michael Della Bitta ------------------------------------------------ Appinions 18 East 41st Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10017-6271 www.appinions.com Where Influence Isn’t a Game On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Nagendra Nagarajayya <nnagaraja...@transaxtions.com> wrote: > Thanks Michael for the feedback. Will take a look at this ... > > > Regards, > > Nagendra Nagarajayya > http://solr-ra.tgels.org > http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org > > > On 10/29/2012 9:17 AM, Michael Della Bitta wrote: >> >> As an external observer, I think the main problem is your branding. >> "Realtime Near Realtime" is definitely an oxymoron, and your ranking >> algorithm is called "Ranking Algorithm," which is generic enough to >> suggest that a. it's the only ranking algorithm available, and b. by >> implication, that Solr doesn't have one built in. >> >> I would suggest two improvements: >> >> 1. Come up with a top-level name for your overall efforts. Apache >> Foundation has 'Apache,' so automatic branding of every component they >> build. Then your ranking algorithm could be called "Tgels Ranking >> Algorithm for Apache Solr" (for example), which is totally legit. And >> "Tgels Realtime Search for Apache Solr." >> >> 2. Maybe point out that you're building on top of the work of the >> Apache Solr and Lucene projects a little more prominently. >> >> I think with those two little tweaks, you'd actually very easily get >> more people interested in your contributions. >> >> Just my two cents, >> >> Michael Della Bitta >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> Appinions >> 18 East 41st Street, 2nd Floor >> New York, NY 10017-6271 >> >> www.appinions.com >> >> Where Influence Isn’t a Game >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Nagendra Nagarajayya >> <nnagaraja...@transaxtions.com> wrote: >>> >>> Jack: >>> >>> I respect your hard-work responding to user problems on the mail list. So >>> it >>> would be nicer to try out Realtime NRT then pass rogue comments, whether >>> a >>> contribution is legit/spam or a scam... I guess it illuminates the narrow >>> minded view of oneself ... The spirit of open source is contributions >>> from >>> not only commiters but other developers, from the Solr wiki "A half-baked >>> patch in Jira, with no documentation, no tests and no backwards >>> compatibility is better than no patch at all." >>> >>> You would gain more respect if you actually download realtime-nrt, check >>> out >>> if it does provide a view of a realtime index compared to a >>> point-in-time >>> snapshot, see if you can understand the code and provide clarity and >>> feedback to the list if you do find problems with it. realtime-nrt offers >>> search capability as to realtime-get. Checkout if this is true ... I >>> would >>> really welcome your comments on the list or through the JIRA here: >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3816 >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Nagendra Nagarajayya >>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >>> http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org >>> >>> On 10/29/2012 7:30 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: >>>> >>>> Could any of the committers here confirm whether this is a legitimate >>>> effort? I mean, how could anything labeled "Apache ABC with XYZ" be an >>>> "external project" and be sanctioned/licensed by Apache? In fact, the >>>> linked >>>> web page doesn't even acknowledge the ownership of the Apache trademarks >>>> or >>>> ASL. And the term "Realtime NRT" is nonsensical. Even worse: "Realtime >>>> NRT >>>> makes available a near realtime view". Equally nonsensical. Who knows, >>>> maybe >>>> it is legit, but it sure comes across as a scam/spam. >>>> >>>> -- Jack Krupansky >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- From: Nagendra Nagarajayya >>>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:06 AM >>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>>> Subject: [Announce] Apache Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 and >>>> Realtime NRT available for download >>>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I am very excited to announce the availability of Apache Solr 4.0 with >>>> RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 and Realtime NRT. Realtime NRT is a high >>>> performance and more granular NRT implementation as to soft commit. The >>>> update performance is about 70,000 documents / sec* (almost 1.5-2x >>>> performance improvement over soft-commit). You can also scale up to 2 >>>> billion documents* in a single core, and query half a billion documents >>>> index in ms**. Realtime NRT is different from realtime-get. realtime-get >>>> does not have search capability and is a lookup by id. Realtime NRT >>>> allows full search, see here <http://solr-ra.tgels.org/realtime-nrt.jsp> >>>> for more info. >>>> >>>> Realtime NRT has been contributed back to Solr, see JIRA: >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3816 >>>> >>>> RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 supports the entire Lucene Query Syntax, ą and/or >>>> boolean/dismax/boost queries and is compatible with the new Lucene 4.0 >>>> api. >>>> >>>> You can get more information about Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 >>>> and Realtime NRT performance from here: >>>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org/wiki/en/Near_Real_Time_Search_ver_4.x >>>> >>>> You can download Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 from here: >>>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >>>> >>>> Please download and give the new version a try. >>>> >>>> Note: >>>> 1. Apache Solr 4.0 with RankingAlgorithm 1.4.4 is an external project >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Nagendra Nagarajayya >>>> http://solr-ra.tgels.org >>>> http://rankingalgorithm.tgels.org >>>> >>>> * performance is a real use case of Apache Solr with RankingAlgorithm as >>>> seen at a user installation >>>> ** performance seen when using the age feature >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >
