Hi Devs, I'm finally motivated enough to start this thread as I believe this is a great thing to do for the Lucene community to continuously thrive as the library has become so feature-rich but as the same time much more complex.
"What do you recommend to read for learning more Lucene?" -- A question I was often asked by my friends and coworkers at Amazon Product Search . I'm sure many of you have experienced the same. I always recommend Lucene In Action 2nd Edition[1] which is a great book. However, it features Lucene 3.0 and we are at Lucene 9.0 now! There is a huge gap. Inspired by my recent experience with the Rust Book[2] and the Solr ref guide[3], I believe it is possible for the Lucene community to collaborate on writing a book/user guide just like how the software is built in the open-source way! Concretely, it will require to first draw the outline of the book with clear intentions for all sections. Then the effort should be able to scale, allow- ing individuals to work on different sections in parallel. Once built, the book should be a live artifact and evolve together with Lucene. Thoughts? [1] https://www.amazon.com/Lucene-Action-Second-Covers-Apache/dp/1933988177 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/book [3] https://github.com/apache/solr/tree/main/solr/solr-ref-guide Thanks, Tony
