On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 10:00 +0100, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi Thorsten, good to see you here!
:) Hi Bertrand, thanks very much for this warm welcome and I am as well glad to meet you here. > > On 11/28/06, Thorsten Scherler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...Following the tutorial and looking at the examples it seems that solr > > only supports one document type. > > > > <add><doc> > > <field name="id">3007WFP</field> > > <field name="name">Dell Widescreen UltraSharp 3007WFP</field> > > <!-- ... --> > > </doc></add>... > > That's right, to add documents to a Solr index you need to transform > them to this model. You're basically creating fields to be indexed, > and the Solr schema.xml allows you to define precisely how you want > each field to be indexed, including strict data types, pluggable > Lucene analyzers, etc. > > This means some work in converting your content model to an "indexing > model", but it's very worth it as it gives you very precise control > about what you index and how. > Yeah, I thought about it last night and I came to the same conclusion. The "extra" work involved is "just" a xsl transformation in my use case, so not really the biggest part of this project. > > ...Further since the project is for a customer I would need a released > > version when I put my engine in production. When does this community > > expect to make its first release, or better asked which are the > > blockers?... > > I'm relatively new here so I'll let others complete this info, but > IIUC the only work needed to do a first release is to make sure all > source files are "clean" w.r.t required Apache license notices. I > don't think there are any technical blockers for a release, many of us > are happily using Solr on production sites. That is good to hear, so if somebody (e.g. me) would check all files for cleanness then we could release, right? Perfect. > > You might want to look at these links for more info: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrResources > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers Thanks very much Bertrand, I will look at this information. I am still evaluating what is best for this project, but solr sounds very interesting ATM. salu2 > > -Bertrand
