Will do... all those changes look good. Thanks! -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > >
