bq. Change Solr schema serialization from XML to JSON, and provide an XML->JSON conversion tool.
What is the motivation for the change? I think if you are sitting down and looking to design a schema, working with the XML is fairly nice and fast. I picture that a lot of people would start by working with the XML file to get it how they want, and then perhaps do future changes with the rest API. When you are developing, starting with the rest API feels fairly cumbersome if you have to make a lot of changes/additions/removals. So why not just keep the XML and add the rest API? Do we gain much by switching it to JSON? I like JSON when it comes to rest, but when I think about editing a large schema doc locally, XML seems much easier to deal with. - Mark
