+1, great idea. On Wed, 17 Nov, 2021, 2:19 pm Michael Wechner, <michael.wech...@wyona.com> wrote:
> I think this would be great and I would be very happy to contribute. > > For example I am currently trying to understand how the autocomplete / > auto suggest functionality of Lucene works and I could contribute my > learnings. > > All the best > > Michael > > Am 16.11.21 um 20:49 schrieb Dongyu Xu: > > 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 > > >
