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Alexandre Rafalovitch commented on SOLR-3619:
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Just to be "fair and balanced", ES does not come with any examples at all. Or
JavaDoc. Or Admin console. Or sample documents. Not that shipping PDF sample
documents would help anyway, because it also does not come with Tika (which is
a separate plugin). Nor does it ship tutorial, only the guide on the website.
But it is easy to get started as the download is only 22Mb and they can index
their first document by the time Solr's 154Mb is downloaded and unpacked. This
differential becomes more and more important as not everybody has a FIOS.
But, let's return to user perception and the directory structure to improve
such.
Ideally, one would write a tutorial first that show cases most important Solr
features. Then, we would adjust the structure of the directories to make that
tutorial a reality. In my eyes, this would mean moving collection1 example into
a new kitchen_sink directory and creating a new one that skips all the defaults
and non-immediately affective declarations (e.g. warmers) and has a highest
impact for smallest number of lines configuration. Which would probably include
schema auto-detect, skip the /browse handle and maybe keep only one non-English
type (e.g. German to show case accent folding, token-splitting, etc).
Just as ideally, somebody would sponsor/build a web-based config generation
wizard. I have an initial design document, which I am happy to share. But the
basic idea is the same as http://www.initializr.com/ : hit a bunch of
check-boxes get a fully-configured collection config showcasing user's specific
needs. Possibly with 'with comments/without comments' button or some such. This
would give flexibility of having a bunch of blueprints (as mentioned in past
comments) but without them contributing to the bulk of the downloaded Solr
distribution.
> Rename 'example' dir to 'server' and pull examples into an 'examples'
> directory
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> Key: SOLR-3619
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3619
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Mark Miller
> Fix For: 4.9, 5.0
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> Attachments: SOLR-3619.patch, server-name-layout.png
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