bq: but you cannot ask this to client. You _can_ ask this of a client. IMO you are obligated to. A gentle way to do that is say something like:
"Solr doesn't do that out-of-the-box. I estimate it will take me XXX weeks to implement that in custom code. I will be unable to make progress on features A-F during that time. We can try tweaking Solr's ranking with the standard configurations and see if that satisfies your ranking requirements in YYY days. Please prioritize this relative to the other features." I have, quite literally been in very similar situations. The client was convinced that BM25 ranking would give better results (this was before flexible scoring). They never needed the BM25 stuff. And their project was wildly successful. It's amazing how often software people don't give this feedback and then the project managers are surprised later by time/cost overruns or lack of features. We _must_ inform our clients of the costs of a feature and cheaper alternatives before they can make informed decisions. It's also amazing how often, when given realistic cost estimates, features like this get put off forever. On those occasions when it _does_ make a difference, at least the client has the information necessary to prioritize, and their expectations are set appropriately. Rant done, Erick On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:03 PM, shahzad73 <shahzad...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yes the correct is answer may be "Why" but you cannot ask this to client. > He think there is something interesting with this formula and if it works we > can index websites with Nutch + Solr and let users input queries that > can locate documents which has % of foreign words other than list provided. > i will check the answer provided > > Shahzad > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Find-documents-that-are-composed-of-words-tp4094264p4094778.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
