Agree with Jason. It's useful for prototyping and developing. I remember
seeing some warnings about it (in the logs?), but maybe we need more?

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:41 AM Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Is anyone on this list using schemaless mode in production or have you
> tried to?
>
> Schemaless mode is one of a group of Solr features present for
> convenience but not intended for production usage.  It's in the same
> boat as "bin/post", and SolrCell, and others.  These features do cause
> headaches when users ignore the documented restrictions and use them
> for more than prototyping.  But at the same time they're super
> valuable for these sort of demo-ing or getting-started use cases.  An
> easy getting-started experience is important, and schemaless et al
> serve a mostly positive role in that.
>
> I think we'd better serve our users if we left schemaless
> in/undeprecated, and instead focused on making it harder to
> (unknowingly) use them in ways contrary to community recommendations.
> Add louder warnings in the documentation (where not already present).
> Add warnings to the Solr logs the first time these features are used.
> Disable them by default (where that makes sense).  Taken to the
> extreme, we could even add a section into Solr's response that lists
> non-production features used in serving a given request.
>
> There are lots of ways to address the "feature X is trappy" problem
> without removing X together.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:33 AM Marcus Eagan <marcusea...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Community,
> >
> > There are many of us that have had to deal with the pain of managing the
> schemaless mode of operation in Solr. I'm curious to get others thoughts
> about how well it is working for them and if they would like to continue to
> use it.
> >
> > I for one don't think Schemaless works as intended and favor deprecating
> it and replacing it with some more usable but I am sure others have
> thoughts here.
> >
> > Is anyone on this list using schemaless mode in production or have you
> tried to?
> >
> > A preliminary discussion has occurred in this Jira ticket:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-14701
> >
> > Thank you all,
> >
> > Marcus Eagan
> >
>
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