Alessandro, Thanks for reorganizing the tracking on JIRA and for your thoughts encouraging contributions on this effort. I have also updated the component link and minutes of the meeting shared by Kevin (thanks Kevin!) on the Solr Wiki.
I tried to access the kanban board but it looks like I don't have the necessary permissions to view it. Can you please adjust the permissions as appropriate? Thanks, Rahul On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM Kevin Liang (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A) < klian...@bloomberg.net> wrote: > Thanks Alessandro! > > Additionally to give a quick recap of the first meeting for those who > weren't able to make it: > * Intros > * JIRA process for organizing dense vector work (as Alessandro summarized) > * Initial areas of interest: > 1. Quantization > 2. HNSW early termination > 3. ACORN based filtering > 4. Solr embedded LLMs? (open discussion about if this would gain > traction/how best to do it) > 5. Reciprocal rank fusion support > 6. Chunking support > As Alessandro noted, please do not feel limited by these categories. Any > good ideas please share and run with it! > > We will keep the dense vector meetup going as a recurring monthly meetup > on the first Wednesday of every month @ 12PM ET/4PM GMT. > So the next one will be August 6th. See you all then > > -Kevin > > From: dev@solr.apache.org At: 07/10/25 06:29:05 UTC-4:00To: Kevin Liang > (BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD A ) , dev@solr.apache.org > Subject: Dense Vector Group - Next Steps > > Hi guys, thanks for the meeting yesterday, cool stuff! > > I spent a bit of JIRA time, and I think I managed to create something that > would make more or less everybody happy (please iterate/suggest other > options if it doesn't!): > > Components-based approach as recommended by David and Houston: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-17815?jql=project%20%3D%20SOLR%20AND% > 20component%20%3D%20vector-search > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-17815?jql=project%20%3D%20SOLR%20AND%20component%20%3D%20vector-search> > > A kanban board to have a quick glance at what's going on, what's in > progress, what's in to-do, etc. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=633&projectKey=S > OLR > > Some general guidelines: > > - All Solr work is volunteering based, so there's no obligation on > having to work on the issues created so far first, they are a good start > but if you fancy to contribute anything else, *it comes without saying > that you can create other issues*, tag them with the right component > 'vector-search' and start working on them. > - It's ok to be in 'stealth mode' until you are confident enough to > share what you built, we all have limited time to donate and drafting > something is better than just wait indefinitely for discussions that may > happen months later, just to better coordinate if you are working on > something put the Jira in progress and leave a comment, in this way if > someone else wants to takle the same issue, can reach out to you and > potentially interact even before a pull request is opened. > - If you have the luxury of more time and no rush, f*eel free to reach > out on the dev list/Slack to discuss new issues/designs/ideas*. There's > no guarantee, but someone may be available to jump on a call in a day or > two. Especially if you are unsure on where or how to start. > - Once a Pull Request is opened, link it to the Jira (if you follow > standard naming conventions, this should happen automatically), keep it > open for a while, participate in discussions if any, and after a bit > with > no interaction, try to not lose the momentum and ask a committer to > merge. > If it's good enough, it's better than never merging, waiting for > perfection; other iterations can happen and improve/add what's missing. > - Once you start a contribution, don't feel pressured to finish it; it's > ok to donate something half-baked, it could be an interesting starting > point for others that can re-use the initial work. If you feel your > contribution is not good enough for a pull request but at the same time > you > start to question how much time you can dedicate to it to continue the > work, don't worry, publish the pull request with a disclaimer,* no-one > will judge you and someone potentially can take it from there*! > > Feel free to add other issues and tag them appropriately,* it's now > fundamental to use the 'vector-search' component if we want a cohesive view > on the topic.* > > In the next few months, hoping this initiative is successful, I'll do the > same with 'LLM-Search'. > > We'll keep the meeting rolling. I'm afraid I may not join the next one at > the same time, but I can catch up offline with @Kevin Liang > <klian...@bloomberg.net> on the same day or something. > > Cheers > -------------------------- > *Alessandro Benedetti* > Director @ Sease Ltd. > *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* > *Apache Solr Chair of PMC* > > e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io > > > *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied > Consulting | Training | Open Source > > Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> > LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter > <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github > <https://github.com/seaseltd> > > >
