I hereby dub Solr 1.5 "The Cloud Edition"! (of course anyone else may also dub it anything else they so choose ;-)
There's lots of prototyles and great work floating around that aim to increase the practical scalability and ease of cluster management of Solr. I did some brainstorming myself of how we could use zookeeper on the flight to ApacheCon US last month, and had a number of discussions with various people while there. I'm going over those notes and adding some stuff to a new wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud Of course the main issue is at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1277 And there is already another wiki page http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ZooKeeperIntegration I started a new page for myself because I'm not sure we're all in sync yet and didn't want to get into competitive editing :-) Anyway, I think this is going to be a big enough issue with potentially a ton of discussion, and we should perhaps use the mailing lists for general design discussions rather than forcing everything into a single JIRA issue (which doesn't deal well with huge threads). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
