Jacob,
Yeah, it really is a big mess with acts_as_solr. I blame a few
things: 1) me - for not wrangling this thing into Solr's client/ruby
area from the start, 2) Rubyists! (Apache's svn isn't an appealing
home) and 3) the git craze promoting fork-mania.
And take a look at this ridiculous bug (in at least one fork) of
acts_as_solr: <http://groups.google.com/group/acts_as_solr/browse_thread/thread/4e1dee03a46c6415
>
So... what do we do?
Can we get the best version of acts_as_solr donated to Solr's svn?
Who can rightfully say where the IP of that comes from so we can
ensure it's provenance is clear and cool by all who touched the
code? Or maybe we just start from scratch with the simplest thing
that can possibly work (like my acts_as_solr_"lite" (page 13 of http://code4lib.org/files/solr-ruby.pdf)
and iterate from there in Apache's svn?
Erik
On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Jacob Elder wrote:
What versions of acts_as_solr are you all using?
There appears to be about a dozen forks on GitHub, including my own.
http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org/ has a notice that the official
site is
now http://acts_as_solr.railsfreaks.com/, but *don't click that
link*because it's just a mess of pop-up ads now. It would be great to
get some
consolidation and agreement from the community.
--
Jacob Elder
