Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Yonik Seeley
I'm also trying to reuse the first paragraph to come up with an update to our front page description to basically define Solr. I'll think about how I can fit in the cross-language aspects... Perhaps it deserves a second paragraph. One characterization of Solr I've heard in the past is that it's

Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Noble Paul നോബിള്‍ नोब्ळ्
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Yonik Seeley yo...@lucidimagination.com wrote: I'm also trying to reuse the first paragraph to come up with an update to our front page description to basically define Solr. I'll think about how I can fit in the cross-language aspects... Perhaps it deserves a

Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Israel Ekpo
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Yonik Seeley yo...@lucidimagination.comwrote: OK, here's another shot that adds a second paragraph that describes a little more the form that Solr takes. Again, I'm thinking of reusing the first two big descriptive paragraphs (starting with Solr is the

Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Yonik Seeley
Thanks for the review! I already made some additional changes (I had forgotten one of the suggestions by Chris eariler too). New draft is at the end, I've already checked this into subversion. It's not live though, so further tweaks and cleanups can still be made. On that note: I'll be

Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Israel Ekpo
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Yonik Seeley yo...@lucidimagination.comwrote: Thanks for the review! I already made some additional changes (I had forgotten one of the suggestions by Chris eariler too). New draft is at the end, I've already checked this into subversion. It's not live

Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Yonik Seeley
OK, w/ grammar fixes from Israel (also checked into trunk): but I thought since the it was referring to Solr (singular) It's referring to the APIs (plural). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- DRAFT -- Apache Solr 1.4 has

Re: release announcement draft

2009-11-01 Thread Noble Paul നോബിള്‍ नोब्ळ्
+1 On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Yonik Seeley yo...@lucidimagination.com wrote: OK, w/ grammar fixes from Israel (also checked into trunk): but I thought since the it was referring to Solr (singular) It's referring to the APIs (plural). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com -- DRAFT

release announcement draft

2009-10-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
Putting my marketing hat on... here's a draft for a release announcement on other sites like theserverside (for an audience that may or may not be familiar with what Solr is). I've tried to keep the new feature list limited, while still trying to convey the scope of this new release. Thoughts?

Re: release announcement draft

2009-10-31 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
Hey Yonik, Looks great. A couple of comments: 1. How about instead of ... Apache Lucene project. Major features include powerful full-text search,..., we say ... Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search,... [key change: added Its in front of major features]