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] 2. Instead of "... and rich document (Word, PDF) handling..." we say "... and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling..." [key change: added e.g.] 3. Instead of "... Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites...", we say "... Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites..." [key change: added "and it powers..." rather than "...and powers..."] 4. Instead of "... Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary functions, nested queries of different syntaxes...", we say, "... Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary functions, and nested queries of different syntaxes..." [key change, added "and nested queries"] Again, looks great, and these are minor comments, but thought I'd pass along to help crisp it up. Thanks, Chris On 10/31/09 10:44 AM, "Yonik Seeley" <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: 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? -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download! http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. New Solr 1.4 features include - Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting - Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and can replicate config files - Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler - Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika - Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2 - Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single category to be selected) - Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary functions, nested queries of different syntaxes - Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics, TermVectors, Deduplication --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
