On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Aaron Greenspan <aar...@thinkcomputer.com> wrote: > I say this not because I enjoy starting flame wars or because I have the time > to participate in them--I don't. I realize that there's a long history to > Solr and I am the new kid who doesn't get it. Nonetheless, that doesn't > change the way it works, and many users will be just like me. So just know > that I'd just like to see Solr improve--frankly, I need it to--and if these > issues were not already glaringly obvious, they should be now.
This! Seriously, I think this feedback is valuable and I have recently gone through a similar experience. This is why I have written a book specifically targeting people who basically got their first (example) collection running and are now stuck on how to get the second (first 'real one') do what they want. The book is available for pre-orders at: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book (out in a couple more days) and a bunch of sample configurations that go with it are at: https://github.com/arafalov/solr-indexing-book On specific points, I do agree that we need to make Admin WebUI to have the first/only core pre-selected. If nobody has created a JIRA for this yet, I will. And, I think, perhaps we need absolutely minimal solr configuration shipping in Solr distribution. With a single '*' field and so on. Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book)
